Samoa to be home to weightlifting institute
It is a dream come true for the Samoa Weightlifting Federation after they were given the green light to build the Oceania Weightlifting Institute...
John Tafi secures first gold
An incredible lift by young John Tafi in the 73kg weight category secured Samoa’s first gold at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2024 in Suva...
Samoan lifters on a golden journey
Two more gold medals have been claimed by Samoa's champion weightlifting team at the Commonwealth Championship in Delhi in India.
Sanele Mao claimed the other...
Another gold and bronze for Weightlifting Fiji
Weighting Fiji has managed to win another two medals at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship in Delhi, India.
Leyna-May Domonatani won a gold and bronze medal...
Don Opeloge’s lifts Samoa to another gold in India
Don Opeloge has done it again. He claimed yet another gold medal for Samoa in the Men's 102kg category at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship...
Golden lift for Rainibogi
Fiji has won its first gold medal at the 2023 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Delhi, India.
Taniela Rainibogi claimed Fiji’s gold today.
Rainibogi snatched 163kg and...
Baru eying gold at 2023 Pacific Games
Papua New Guinea’s top male weightlifter, Morea Baru, is confident in winning three gold medals in the snatch, clean-and-jerk and total in the 61kg...
Fijian Eileen Cikamatana makes history with weightlifting gold for Australia
At the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Eileen Cikamatana won weightlifting gold for Fiji. Four years later in Birmingham she repeated the achievement, this time...
ONOC Digest – Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
ONOC is delivering this Digest in partnership with The Reporters’ Academy and the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA).
OCEANIA’S DAY AT THE GAMES - DAY...
Opeloge family claim another weightlifting title as Don strikes gold at Birmingham 2022
Samoa's Don Opeloge has become the third of his siblings to win a gold medal in weightlifting, triumphing in dominant fashion in the men's...
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