| Richie Patterson | |
| Fullname: | Richard John Edward Patterson |
| Birth Date: | 1983 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Height: | 1.67m (05.48feet) |
| Weight: | 84kg (185lb) |
| Sport: | Weightlifting |
| Country: | New Zealand |
Richard John Edward Patterson (born 30 April 1983) is a weightlifting competitor for New Zealand.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi he won the silver medal in the men's 85 kg weightlifting event.[1] Four years later, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he won the gold medal in the same event.[2] He was New Zealand's flagbearer in the 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony.[3]
To qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics Patterson had to rely on fellow New Zealand teammate Tavita Ngalu to lift 150 kg at the Oceania Championships. In a selfless act Ngalu did so while injured with ripped quadriceps and New Zealand's highest ranked weightlifter (Patterson) qualified for the Games.[4]
Patterson married fellow weightlifter Phillipa Hale in Glasgow on 31 July 2014, after both had competed in the Commonwealth Games (Hale competed in the women's 53 kg event).[5]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=40 | 1 | width=40 | 2 | width=40 | 3 | width=40 | Rank | width=40 | 1 | width=40 | 2 | width=40 | 3 | width=40 | Rank |
| Representing | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||
| 145 | 149 | 16 | 181 | 15 | 330 | 15 | |||||||||
| 150 | 14 | 183 | 186 | 12 | 336 | 12 | |||||||||
| 130 | 25 | 170 | 18 | 300 | 21 | ||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| 140 | 144 | 18 | 178 | 17 | 322 | 17 | |||||||||
| 125 | 23 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | |||||||||||||||
| 147 | 151 | 1 | 184 | 1 | 335 | ||||||||||
| 142 | 146 | 150 | 1 | 181 | 2 | 331 | |||||||||
| 77 kg | 128 | 135 | 4 | 158 | 4 | 293 | 4[6] | ||||||||