Steven Kakuna Kari (born 13 May 1993 in
Port Moresby
(; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...
) is a
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
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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.
Steven Kakuna Kari's biography at Glasgow 2014 official website.
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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
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Papua New Guinea
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
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