{"id":75258,"date":"2021-12-30T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=75258"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:27:50","slug":"teen-weightlifting-phenom-xavier-lusignan-looks-back-on-a-successful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/teen-weightlifting-phenom-xavier-lusignan-looks-back-on-a-successful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen weightlifting phenom Xavier Lusignan looks back on a successful year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic and changing public health restrictions, Mansfield weightlifter Xavier Lusignan had a busy year competing in 2021, from winning\u00a0<a class=\"spip_site\" href=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/Xavier-Lusignan-wins-3-gold-medals-at-2021-Canadian-Junior-Weightlifting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three gold medals<\/a>\u00a0at the Canadian Junior Weightlifting Championships in March to making his\u00a0<a class=\"spip_site\" href=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/Xavier-Lusignan-finished-6th-at-the-Junior-Pan-American-Games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international debut<\/a>\u00a0at the Junior Pan American Games in Colombia in July.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke with CHIP 101.9 about how his year has gone and what he hopes to accomplish in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Lusignan said that despite only attending three events this year, at the level of competition he\u2019s at, it\u2019s good to have lots of practice time to work on perfecting technique.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-75258-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-competition-timing.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-competition-timing.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-competition-timing.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>He said that he was proud of the support he\u2019s been getting from the community, adding that the recognition is really important to him, given all the sacrifices that he\u2019s made to get to such a high level.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-75258-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-accomplishments.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-accomplishments.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-accomplishments.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Looking ahead, Lusignan has his sights set on even higher levels of competition. He plans on winning the Canadian Junior Championships for the third year in a row, before heading off to the biggest stage he\u2019s competed on, the IWF Junior World Championships. Born in 2003, he still has two more years to compete as a junior and said that he where he finishes would be less important than closely observing the competition.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-75258-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-next-year.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-next-year.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Clip-Xavier-Lusignan-next-year.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>He said that he would also be returning to the Junior Pan American Championships with the goal of improving on this year\u2019s 6th place finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full interview with Lusignan is available below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic and changing public health restrictions, Mansfield weightlifter Xavier Lusignan had a busy year competing in 2021, from winning\u00a0three gold medals\u00a0at the Canadian Junior Weightlifting Championships in March to making his\u00a0international debut\u00a0at the Junior Pan American Games in Colombia in July. He spoke with CHIP 101.9 about how his year has gone and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":75260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[635,4225,11629,7434],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}