College. She is bilingual in English and French and conversant in Italian and Spanish. She is former Executive Board member of the Canadian athletes' organization AthletesCAN, and Development and Education Commission for the International Weightlifting Federation and is currently the Athlete Representative on the Canada Games Council Sport Committee. Lassen formally announced on February 18, 2016, her intent to run for the Yukon Liberal Party in her home riding of Takhini-Kopper King in the 2016 Yukon election. However, she was defeated by New Democrat incumbent Kate White in the ensuing campaign. Electoral record 2016 general election |- | NDP | Kate White | align="right"| 605 | align="right"| 46.1% | align="right"| +0.2% | Liberal | Jeane Lassen | align="right"| 478 | align="right"| 36.4% | align="right"| +14.0% |- ! align=left colspan=3|Total ! align=right| 1312 ! align=right| 100.0% ! align=right| – |} References External links Athlete Biography at beijing2008 Arctic Institute for Community Based Research 1980 births Living people Olympic weightlifters of Canada Weightlifters at the 1999 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia Sportspeople from Whitehorse Canadian female weightlifters Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Canadian sportsperson-politicians Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Yukon Liberal Party politicians World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Canadian women 21st-century Canadian women Camosun College alumni Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games