ELLIOTT Kiana Rose

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	63kg - Total
2014	Nanjing, CHN	7th (164)

World Championships

Year	Location	69kg - Total	69kg - Snatch	69kg - C&J	64kg - Total	64kg - Snatch	64kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	-	-	-	25th (202)	18th (93)	31st (109)
2018	Ashgabat, TKM	-	-	-	22nd (205)	23rd (92)	23rd (113)
2015	Houston, TX, USA	32nd (196)	35th (89)	33rd (107)	-	-	-

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	64kg - Total	64kg - Snatch	64kg - C&J
2019	Apia, SAM	1st (213)	1st (99)	1st (114)

Junior World Championships

Year	Location	63kg - Total	63kg - Snatch	63kg - C&J
2017	Tokyo, JPN	(---)	9th (88)	(---)

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Travelling, watching gymnastics. (pbac.sa.edu.au, 01 Jan 2020)

Athlete

Science - Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, AUS

English

South Australian Sports Institute [SASI] [Adelaide, SA, AUS]

Martin Harlowe [club], NZL

She competed in elite level gymnastics during her childhood until 2011. (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 04 Nov 2017; dailytelegraph.com.au, 15 Jan 2015)

While training as a gymnast at age 12, she landed awkwardly and suffered a fractured distal femur, just above the knee. She needed two operations and a knee specialist told her she would never be a world-level gymnast. She persevered but then she suffered tendinitis in the knee and later injured a disc in her lower back, prompting her to end her gymnastics career. (theother23hours.com.au, 10 Nov 2015)

She began weightlifting at age 15 at a CrossFit gym in Sydney, NSW, Australia. (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 04 Nov 2017)

She switched to weightlifting having stopped doing gymnastics in 2011 after suffering several injuries. "No more sport was a bit weird for me. I was very invested and very focused on my gymnastics, so when I retired from it I decided to get into as many things as I could that weren't sport. I ended up going to Tanzania with a youth leadership group. One of the girls there had family who did CrossFit, and she said, 'You should try it, you might enjoy it'. So I came back to Australia, made my way over to the local CrossFit gym and started working out there. I was working out with people a lot older than me, but I enjoyed it and I started weightlifting there." (thesaturdaypaper.com.au, 04 Nov 2017; dailytelegraph.com.au, 15 Jan 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 30 May 2021)

Winning bronze in the 63kg category at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 Jun 2021; Emily Cox YouTube channel, 03 Aug 2017)

Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina. (pbac.sa.edu.au, 01 Jan 2020)

"Believe the unfathomable is conquerable." (Twitter profile, 06 Jul 2019)

She was named Best Female Weightlifter at the 2018 Australian Championships in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. (Macquarie University Sport & Aquatic Centre Facebook page, 24 Sep 2018)