47 articles tagged "weightlifting"
Fiji weightlifter Miriama Taletawa has won bronze in the women’s 86kg junior division at the Commonwealth Championships in Ahmedabad, India. Taletawa lifted 91kg in the snatch and 112kg in the clean and jerk to e
Fiji weightlifter Taniela Rainibogi has won gold in the Senior Men’s 110kg category at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2025 in Ahmedabad, India. Rainibogi lifted a total of 365kg, which includes 165k
16-year-old Marist Brothers High School student, Nehemiah Elder made history at the Pacific Mini Games in Palau, winning three gold medals and breaking nine records in the Men’s 88kg weightlifting category. Elder
Weightlifting Fiji will be looking to collect medals at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, with weightlifting sensations Taniela Rainibogi and Nehemiah Elder leading the team. Rainibogi set a new Commonwealth Ga
Fiji Weightlifting coach Henry Elder has made a call to the Ministry of Sports to help support the development of the sport in Fiji in terms of its financing. While speaking to fijivillage Sports, Elder emphasised
16-year-old weightlifting sensation Nehemiah Elder says he was confident of winning gold at the 2025 IWF World Youth Championships in Lima, Peru, in the Men’s 89kg Youth Division, as everyone was expecting him to do s
16-year-old weightlifting sensation Nehemiah Elder has become the first-ever Fijian Weightlifter to win gold at any World Championship event. Elder created history by winning three gold medals at the 2025 IWF World
Nehemiah Elder won double gold medals and 4 record breaking lifts in the 88kg Youth and Junior category at the 2025 Under 20 Oceania Weightlifting Championships in Melbourne. Elder broke the snatch, clean and jerk
Four Weightlifting Fiji coaches - Henry Elder, Eremasi Qalibau, Timothy Vakuruivalu and Della Shaw Elder – have successfully obtained their International Weightlifting Coaching Licenses, a newly established mandatory
As weightlifters commence their trials today, Fiji Weightlifting star Taniela Rainibogi says the competition will not be an easy one as everyone wants to represent Fiji for the Pacific Mini Games. Rainibogi says he
Fiji’s weightlifter Taniela Rainibogi has achieved another milestone after being the first Fijian male lifter to secure a Top 20 finish at any World Weightlifting Championships. Rainibogi finished in 16th place
Former St. Joseph's Secondary School student Leyna-May Domonatani Dugu has credited her bronze medal wins at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship to divine interventions. She won bronze in the junior women's
Fiji’s Taniela Rainibogi has set a new Commonwealth Games record and won gold in the man’s 109kg category during 2024 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. The Sportsman of the Year lifted 167kg in the snatc
Suliano Tuqalau defied the odds, making his family and vanua proud by winning gold in the youth category and a silver medal in the junior category at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2024, currently underway
17-year-old Zion Tokana has set a new record by winning silver medals in both the junior and youth categories at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships that is currently underway at the Vodafone Arena in Suva.
Fiji's Nehemiah Elder has created history at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2024 as he set a new Commonwealth record in snatch and claimed a gold medal each in the Youth and Junior Category and a silver me
18-year-old Daniel Shaw, has won a bronze medal in the Men's 81kg Junior Category at the 2024 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at the Vodafone Arena. Shaw lifted 115kg in the snatch and 145kg in the clean a
25-year-old Fiji born Australian weightlifter, Eileen Cikamatana is preparing for the highly anticipated competition in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship at the Vodafone Arena tomorrow. Cikamatana says sh
Team Fiji’s youngest lifter at the 2024 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, 14-year-old Mereia Turaganivalu has won a bronze medal in the Women’s 59kg Youth category. The Gospel High School student had a
For 14-year-old Mereia Turaganivalu going into weightlifting was a no-brainer as she comes from a family that is synonymous with the sport in Fiji. Turaganivalu says she grew up watching her mother Asenaca,
