NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR TASMANIAN WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPION

HOMETOWN hero Camilla Fogagnolo’s quest for next year’s Commonwealth Games is on track after she won her weight division on the final day of the national weightlifting championships yesterday.

The 31-year-old produced a perfect six from six attempts to take gold in the women’s 75kg class, ensuring she is firmly in the mix for the Gold Coast Games in 12 months.

Although slightly disappointed with her total, Fogagnolo still came out on top in front of home fans at the Hobart Showgrounds.

“I lifted perfectly, six out of six, you can’t ask for anything better than that,” Fogagnolo said.

“The weight selections were not what I had in mind, but they were obviously perfect.”

Deborah Acason made a strong start to her quest to make a fifth Australian Commonwealth Games team, winning the women’s 90kg title.

Acason, 33, who won gold at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and is a two-time Olympian, has been enticed back to the sport by the prospect of lifting in front of a home crowd next year.

“I’m thinking about it in the back of my head without thinking about it too much, so I’m pretty good at just doing the little steps first.”

In other results, Jacob Marquadt won gold in the men’s 94kg and Zac Grgurevic took the honours in the men’s 105kg.