In this episode of our Olympics-based season of the podcast, we’re chatting with Australian weightlifter, Brandon Wakeling.

Wakeling came to the professional sport of weightlifting quite late in his career after starting out as a budding rugby league player.

At first, just another way to advance his training, eventually he started dedicating more and more time to the sport. Living on the Gold Coast meant he had a Commonwealth Games to look forward to and that drive motivated his consistent improvement.

The 27-year-old competed at the Comm Games and finished seventh, won gold at the 2019 Pacific Games, and now has his sights firmly set on the Tokyo Olympics.

In this chat, Wakeling talks about trying to juggle working and weightlifting early on in his career, memories of his early life playing footy, and the importance of his indigenous heritage and celebrating that by being an ambassador for Deadly Choices.

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