Alethea Boon
| Alethea Boon | |
|---|---|
| — Gymnast ♀ — | |
| Full name | Alethea Leqetiviti Sokia Boon |
| Country represented | New Zealand |
| Born |
January 7, 1984 Suva, Fiji |
| Residence | Australia[1] |
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) |
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics |
| Level |
Senior International Elite (New Zealand national team) |
| Years on national team | 2003 |
Alethea Leqetiviti Sokia Boon (born 7 January 1984) is a New Zealand female artistic gymnast, weightlifter and CrossFit competitor.
Gymnastics
Boon earned a NCAA collegiate scholarship in gymnastics and competed at two Commonwealth Games; Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and Manchester in 2002.[2] Boon was 14 at the 1998 Games, and the youngest competitor on the New Zealand team.[1]
She competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, United States.[3]
Later years
Boon later moved to Sydney, Australia and took up CrossFit.[4] She competed at three CrossFit Games.[1][4][5]
Boon is also a weightlifter and competes in the 63 kg category. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.[6]
Major competitions
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Oceania Weightlifting Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Suva, Fiji | 63 kg | 75 | 78 | 81 | 4 | 90 | 95 |  | 176 | | |
References
- 1 2 3 "Catch Me If You Can: 2x CrossFit Games Athlete Alethea Boon Puts The World On Notice - BSFT Apparel". 5 April 2016.
- ↑ "Alethea Boon - New Zealand Olympic Team". 9 February 2016.
- ↑ "2003 World Gymnastics Championships athletes - Alethea Boon". longinestiming.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- 1 2 "Going to the Games: Alethea Boon - WOD Magazine". 20 July 2015.
- ↑ "Athlete: Alethea Boon".
- ↑ "2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships - Alethea Leqetiviti Sokia Boon". iwf.net. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
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