Cyrille Tchatchet

Cyrille Fagat Tchatchet II[1] (born 1 August 1995) is a Cameroon-born British weightlifter.[2][3] He competed in the 85 kg weight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games for the Cameroon team and finished fifth.He attended Government Bilingual Practising High School in Yaoundé and started studying for a degree in geography at the University of Yaounde before stopping to focus full-time on weightlifting training to prepare for the Commonwealth Games.Cyrille moved to the United Kingdom in 2014, after defecting from the Cameroonian team during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[6] He spent two months homeless in Brighton, and contemplated suicide before calling the Samaritans, who talked him out of it.
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