23 Jun 2021

Olympic weighlifting debutant Cameron McTaggart ready to go

From First Up, 5:35 am on 23 June 2021

With just a month to go the New Zealand weightlifting team have been selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Cameron McTaggart will be making his Olympic debut in the men's under 81kg weight class. McTaggart holds six New Zealand and two Oceania records in the 81kg class - the clean and jerk 169kg, and the total, 310 kg. Our reporter Ella Stewart met with Cameron to ask how it all started.