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By Rachel Aubrey | r.aubrey@mycityjournals.com
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s residents recently embraced the competitive spirit the Summer Olympics brought into their lives, South Jordan resident Debbie Millet has been embracing competition since 2005 when she began her Olympic weightlifting journey at the age of 36. Millet discovered there weren’t a lot of women competing in Olympic-style weightlifting at a local level at that time. She admitted that she was one of only a handful of women in the gym looking to lift weights, in the days before Cross-fit became popular. Millet recalled finding one weightlifting coach in Utah, Dave Turner, and trained long enough and hard enough to win accolades at a national and international level. Millet is a fourtime Masters National Champion, and a two-time Masters World Champion. “Once I learned how to do the Olympic lifts, I didn’t ever want to train another way,” Millet said. Olympic weightlifting is comprised of two techniques: the clean and jerk, which is a composite of two weightlifting movements with a barbell. The first part is the clean, lifting the barbell up from the floor to approximately the height of one’s shoulders, then the jerk, where the lifter raises the barbell from the stationary position completely up over the head. The snatch is the continuous motion of moving the barbell from the ground to above the head. Weightlifting debuted as a sport at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and has been contested at the Summer Olympic games since 1920. Prior to 1920, all lifters competed together in the same events; since 1920, competition is structured Continued page 14
Debbie Millet stepped away from individual competition to train the next generation of Olympic weightlifters. (Courtesy of Debbie Millet)
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