Jason Roberts (weightlifter)

Jason Bryce Roberts

Jason Roberts Clean and Jerk - 192.5 kg (Silver Medal) 1990 Commonwealth games
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Weightlifting
Medal record Weightlifting Representing  Australia Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland +152.5 kg Snatch 1990 Auckland +192.5 kg Clean and Jerk 1990 Auckland +345 kg Overall

Jason Bryce Roberts is an Australian weightlifter. He competed for Australia at 1990 Commonwealth Games in the Heavyweight division, winning three Silver Medals in the snatch, clean and jerk and overall events.^[1]

His anti-drugs stand was noted in the 1990 Australian Senate inquiry into drugs in sport.^[2] In 1992, Jason Roberts was vocally against the importation of Rumanian and Bulgarian weightlifters, specifically for the Barcelona Olympics, on the grounds that they had no interest in migrating to Australia. Subsequently, following the Barcelona Games, most of them left Australia. Michael Noonan, the Executive Director of Australian Weightlifting Federation between 1990–1993, confirmed that AWF "bought" and supported the Bulgarians and Romanian weightlifters to come to Australia in the 1990s.^[3]

References

1. "1990 Australian Team and Results" (PDF). Commonwealthgames.org.au. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
2. "Drugs in sport: second report of the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and the Arts". May 1990. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
3. "Michael Noonan (Nov 17, 2005) on the issue of AWF support for Bulgarians and Romanians who came to Australia in the 1990s". Retrieved 2010-03-04.