Josefa Vueti (born 6 February 1979 in Levuka) is a Fijian weightlifter. Vueti represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's middleweight category (77 kg). Vueti placed twenty-third in this event, as he successfully lifted 124 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 155 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

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, for a total of 279 kg.

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NBC Olympics Profile
Fijian male weightlifters 1979 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Fiji Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Levuka I-Taukei Fijian people 20th-century Fijian people 21st-century Fijian people {{Fiji-weightlifting-bio-stub