Pierre St.-Jean
Canadian weightlifter
Pierre St-Jean (alternate listings: Pierre St-Jean , Pierre Saint-Jean , Pierre St.Jean ; born March 28, 1943, in Montreal , Quebec [1] ) is a Canadian weightlifter who competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. He competed for Canada at the 1964 , 1968 and 1976 Summer Olympics, with a best finish of 10th in 1968. [1]
St-Jean also competed in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games , winning a silver medal in 1962 , a gold medal in 1966 and a bronze medal in 1970 . He won bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1963 and 1967 . [2]
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he took the Athlete's Oath . [3]
He now resides in Orleans, Ontario .
References
- 1 2 "Pierre St-Jean" . Team Canada . Retrieved 19 March 2016 .
- ↑ "First Pan American Games in Canada in 1967: Spotlight on Canadian Athletes" . Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved 19 March 2016 .
- ↑ Grasso, John; Mallon, Bill; Heijmans, Jeroen (14 May 2015). "Appendix VII". Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement (5 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield . p. 685. ISBN 9781442248601 .
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