MAYA LAYLOR
Strength Coach & Weightlifting Specialist
Maya Laylor, Olympic Weightlifting Coach
Maya is the current female Senior Olympic Weightlifting champion of Ontario in 69kg class and is a four-time Ontario Junior Champion and held the title of 2014 Senior Champion in Canada in the 75kg class. As a part of the Canadian Junior Weightlifting team, she competed in both the 2014 and 2015 World Junior Championships, held in Kazan, Russia and Wroclaw, Poland respectively.
2023 IWF Senior World Championships (81kg)
2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England Gold Medal and broke 2 CWG records (76kg)
2022 Canadian Senior Championships Gold Medal, broke 2 Canadian Records (81kg)
2021 Commonwealth Qualifier in Uzbekistan, Tashkent Gold Medal (76kg)
2021 Own The Podium Sponsorship (only 3 Canadian athletes)
2021 IWF Senior World Championships in Uzbekistan, Tashkent 6th Place (76kg)
2021 Summerfest broke 3 Ontario Records
2021 Pan-American Championships 4th Place (76kg)
2020 Torneo Manual Suarez International Gold Medal (71kg)
2019 IWF World Championships–6th (71kg)
2019 Commonwealth Senior Championships-Gold Medal (71kg)
2019 Summerfest Ontario-Gold Medal (71kg)
2019 Canadian National Championships-Gold Medal (71kg), Broke 3 records.
2019 Las Vegas International Open-Gold Medal (71kg)
2019 EGAT Cup International Championships-Bronze Medal (71kg)
2018 Ontario Senior Championships-Gold Medal (71kg), broke 1 record.
2016 Ontario Senior Championships–Gold Medal (69kg)
2016 Winterlift–Gold Medal, broke 3 records
2015 Ontario Junior Championship–broke 2 snatch records
2015 Hookgrip Spartakiad in Philadelphia, PA–Silver Medal in Snatch and Total, Bronze in Clean & Jerk
2015 Junior Worlds in Wroclaw, Poland–5th
2015 Variety Village Open–Gold Medal, Best Female Lifter,broke Ontario Junior record
2015 Canadian Junior Championship–Gold Medal
2014 Ontario Junior Championship–Gold Medal
2014 Ray Hamilton Classic—Gold Medal
2014 World Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia, member of the Canadian Junior Team
2014 Toronto Supershow—Gold Medal 2014 Canadian Senior Championships—Gold Medal, broke 3 Ontario Junior and 1 Ontario Senior records
2014 Ontario Senior Championships—Gold Medal
2014 Canadian Junior Championships—Silver Medal
2013 Ontario Scholastics Championships—Gold Medal
2013 Toronto Supershow—Gold Medal
2013 Canadian Senior Championships—Gold Medal and Set 3 new Youth Records
2013 Ontario Junior Championships—Gold Medal
2013 Ontario Open—Gold Medal 2013 Canadian Junior Championships—Silver Medal
2012 Ontario Junior Championships—Gold Medal and Best Female Lifter Award
2012 Ray Hamilton Classic —Gold Medal in 69kg class, broke 4 Ontario Youth Records, won Most Improved and Best Overall Lifter
2012 Blue Mountain Open—Gold Medal and Best Junior Lifter
2012 Canadian Junior Championships—Silver Medal
2011 Ontario Junior Championships—Gold Medal
2011 Ray Hamilton Classic—Best Female Novice Lifter