Don Opeloge
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| Born | 13 May 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Don Opeloge (born 13 May 1999)[1] is a Samoan weightlifter. He won the silver medal in the men's 85 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.[2]
Opeloge comes from a weightlifting family.[3] His brother Niusila and his sister Ele both won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi.[3]
At the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, he finished in 9th place in the men's 85 kg event.[4] In 2018, he won silver at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland.[3]
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Suva, Fiji.[1][2][5] A month later, he represented Samoa at the 2019 Pacific Games and he won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event.[5] The 2019 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships were also held at the same time and his total result also gave him the gold medal in this event.
References[]
- ^ a b "2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Sport: Samoan weightlifter wins junior world title". Radio New Zealand. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Meet the Opeloges: Samoa's first family of weightlifting". RNZ. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ a b Pavitt, Michael (12 July 2019). "World junior champion delights home crowd with triple Samoa 2019 weightlifting gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
External links[]
- Don Opeloge at IWF
- Don Opeloge at International Weightlifting Results Project
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