Wendy Hale


Wendy Hale is a Solomon Islands weightlifter.
She won a silver medal and a bronze at the Commonwealth [Youth Games] in 2004, two silver medals at the Mini [South Pacific Games] in 2005, four gold medals at the Arafura Games in 2007, and two silver medals at the South [Pacific Games] in 2007.
Hale Solomon Islands at the 2008 [Summer Olympics|represented Solomon Islands] at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was her country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.
In the Olympic tournament she ranked 12th in the 58 kg category, with a total of 173 kg. In 2016 after the silver medalist Russian Marina Shainova disqualified, she stepped up to the eleventh place.