Laurel Hubbard, who has become the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics, is from which country?

A) Austria
B) New Zealand
C) Finland
D) Germany

Correct Answer is New Zealand.

Laurel Hubbard, who has become the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics, is from New Zealand.

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is from New Zealand. When she was selected to compete in the Summer Olympics of 2020, she became the first openly transgender woman to do so. At +87 kg for women, Hubbard is ranked eighth in the IWF.

Hubbard competed for the first time in international weightlifting in 2017. When she competed in the 90 kg+ weight class at the 2017 Australian International and Open in Melbourne, she won gold with a snatch and clean-and-jerk total of 268 kg, while her bodyweight was only 130.83 kg.

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