Darren Liddel
Darren Liddel (born 6 May 1971) was an Olympic weightlifter for New Zealand. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur he won three gold medals, one in each of the men's 105+ kg clean and jerk, snatch and combined total. He also competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria where he placed 5th in the men's 108+ kg. Of his return to Te Atatū from Kuala Lumpur Liddel said: "Little did I know three weeks ago that I would be returning home to this kind of welcome. I’m speechless". The contest worsened a wrist injury, and within two years he had stopped weightlifting. References

Living people
1971 births
New Zealand male weightlifters
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
Weightlifters at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Weightlifters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
People educated at Rutherford College, Auckland
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
20th-century New Zealand people
21st-century New Zealand people
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games