Brampton weightlifter Amanda Braddock has earned a spot on Team Canada at the Pan Am Games next month.

Competing in the 48-kilogram/106-pound weight class at the Canadian Championships held recently at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Braddock solidified her place on the team. She lifted a 159-kg total (71 kg/156 lb snatch and 88 kg/194 lb clean and jerk) and broke two of her own Ontario records.

The total was enough to claim the second of only six spots for the Pan Am women's weightlifting team. Braddock is the only Ontarian on the women's team, with three athletes from Quebec, one from British Columbia and one from Manitoba.

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Her performance at the Canadian Championships also qualifies her for the World Weightlifting Championships in November, in Houston, Texas. A strong performance there could send her to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

Braddock picked up a barbell for the first time three years ago while attending UTM. She has since claimed two gold medals at the Canadian Championships, and has repeatedly broken Ontario records in the 48-kg weight class, which had stood since 2005. The Pan Am Games will mark her first international performance.

Braddock currently trains while working a full-time internship through the post-graduate program in human resources at Sheridan College's Davis campus. Braddock will compete at the Oshawa Sports Centre on July 11.