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Weightlifting At The 2011 Arafura Games
Weightlifting at the 2011 Arafura Games took place at the Darwin Entertainment Centre between 10 and 13 May 2011. Together with that year's Oceania Championships (which also include the South Pacific Championships), they were held concurrently as a single event designated the 2011 Arafura Games & Oceania Championships. Athletes from certain countries were able to contest multiple championships simultaneously (including age-group variants). There were also two openweight para powerlifting events (one per gender) for disabled athletes. Medal summary Results were as follows: Medal table Men Women Para powerlifting References {{reflist External links2011 Arafura Games - Weightlifting [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weightlifting Pictogram
Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various types of competition; promoting health and fitness; developing physical strength; or developing a muscular physique, possibly with the goal of engaging in competitive bodybuilding. According to an article in ''The New York Times'', lifting weights can prevent some disabilities, increase metabolism, and lower body fat. When compared to machines, free weights improve not only strength but muscle function as well. Lifting weights can also improve self-confidence and make people feel better about themselves. Weightlifting as a sport The goal of weightlifting competitions is usually the lifting of weights themselves, with the winner being determined by the amount of weight lifted, provided that they employ the correct movements in achieving the lift. Strength competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itte Detenamo
Itte Junior Ronson Detenamo (born 22 September 1986 in Buada) is a Nauruan weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category. Detenamo represented Nauru at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing 14th in the men's 105+kg category. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and three gold medals at the 2007 South Pacific Games."Nauru to send one athlete to Beijing Olympics" Indo-Asian News Service, 22 July 2008 He was Nauru's sole representative at the in < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tovia Opeloge
Tovia Opeloge (born ) is a Samoan male weightlifter, competing in the 105 kg category and representing Samoa at international competitions. He won the gold medal at the 2013 Pacific Mini Games. He participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 105 kg event and at the 2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev .... Major competitions References 1990 births Living people Samoan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Samoa Place of birth missing (living people) {{Samoa-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Galsworthy
Robert Galsworthy (born ) is an Australian male weightlifter, competing in the 105 kg category and representing Australia at international competitions. He participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ... in the 105 kg event. Major competitions References 1989 births Living people Australian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Place of birth missing (living people) Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people {{Australia-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niusila Opeloge
Niusila Opeloge is a weightlifter from Samoa. He was suspended for a doping violation in 2007 for two years. He is considered a PED enhanced lifter. Family Opeloge comes from a weightlifting family. His sister, Ele Opeloge is also a gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games, winning hers on the same day.Opeloge make it double Samoan family celebration Retrieved 11 October 2010. Career Opeloge took up weightlifting in 1999. At the in |
David Katoatau
David Katoatau (born July 17, 1984) is an I-Kiribati weightlifter. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 37th in the 85 kg category, with a total of 281 kg. He ranked 4th in the 85 kg category at the 2008 Oceania Weightlifting Championships, with a total of 292 kg. Career Katoatau represented Kiribati in weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and also was the national flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In the Olympic tournament he ranked 15th in the 85 kg category, with a total of 313 kg. In 2012, he was the first I-Kiribati ever to qualify on merit for the Olympic Games (rather than receive a wildcard invitation), in any sport. He finished first in the Oceania Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which also made him Commonwealth champion. As part of Kiribati's delegation at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he competed in the 94 kg event, and finished 17th out of 21, with a total lift of 325 kg. He was, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faavae Faauliuli
Faavae Faauliuli is a weightlifter from Samoa. He won Samoa's first ever gold medal at the Commonwealth Games when he successfully lifted 334 kg in the New Delhi Games in 2010. He was subsequently rewarded with US$21,000 by the Samoan Government. He subsequently competed in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul .... References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Samoan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Samoa Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting 21st-century Samoan people Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{Samoa-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplice Ribouem
Simplice Ribouem (born 5 December 1982) is a Cameroon-born Olympian weightlifter who competed for Cameroon up to 2006, and for Australia from 2009. He finished 13th in the 94kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ribouem won bronze for Cameroon in the 85kg event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was an Australian gold medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, winning a gold medal in the 85kg event. Ribouem did not medal in the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg. He won silver competing for Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Ribouem won a silver at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships The 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships was held in Suva, Fiji between May 24 and May 28, 2016. Medal summary Results shown below are for the senior competition only. Junior and youth results are cited here and here respectively. Men Wome .... Results ;Medalbox notes References External links * 1982 births Living people Sportspeople f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Turner (weightlifter)
Ben Turner (born 23 January 1984 in Brisbane) is an Australian weightlifter best known for his performances at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he won the gold medal in the 69 kg category, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, where he won Silver in the 77 kg category. Turner is also a coach and has worked with former top Australian female lifter Erika Yamasaki. Early life Turner grew up in Carina, an eastern suburb in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland. He attended St. Oliver Plunkett's Catholic Primary School from 1990 to 1993. During these years he developed an interest in Australian Rules Football, Cricket and Rugby league. From 1994 to 2001 he attended Iona College in Wynnum. During his time there he was involved in cricket, rugby league in Junior School (1994–1996), and rugby union (1997–2001) in high school, playing all at representative level. Weightlifting Turner developed an interest in Olympic Weightlifting af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Kari
Steven Kakuna Kari (born 13 May 1993 in Port Moresby) is a Papua New Guinean weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ... competing in the men's 85 kg and later 94 kg category. 85kg The youngest member of the Papua New Guinea team, he finished 15th at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Kari won the gold medal at the 2011 Pacific Games. 94kg Kari won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Men's 94 kg class. References External links * Papua New Guinean male weightlifters 1993 births Living people Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Papua New Guinea Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics People from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
