April 05, 2012
The International Weightlifting Federation has applauded Weightlifting Fiji on being awarded the Best Sports Federation at the FASANOC/Fiji Sports Council joint-awards last month.
In a report on their website, IWF said Weightlifting Fiji president Atma Maharaj and his office ‘have done tremendous work in order to bring weightlifting into the center of attention in the Fijian sport life.’
Read the article here: http://www.fijilive.com/sports/news/2012/04/05/26499.Fijilive
moreInformation Bulletin 2012 - Commonwealth & Oceania Senior, Junior & Youth Weightlifting Championships
moreWeightlifting Fiji is looking to qualify two lifters for this year’s London Olympic Games. Fiji will take part in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Samoa from May 22nd to May 26th 2012.
The Top 5 Men’s Team and the Top 4 Women’s Team will qualify one lifter each for London. The Fiji Men’s Team will compromise of 7 lifters, out of which 6 will score towards Men’s Team Points.
In the Women’s Team event, Fiji is looking to enter 5 lifters, of which 4 will score towards the Women’s Team Points.
moreCommonwealth Weightlifting Federation Latest News - January, 2012
moreWeightlifting Fiji had a total of 11 of its lifters who appeared in the 2011 World Rankings senior division. 5 Of these athletes are ranked in the Junior Division, with one in the Youth Division.
Best World Ranked lifters are Manueli Tulo (28th) and Maria Liku (31st) in the Senior Division. This is Fiji's best ever performance in world ranking. A major feat, considering that we only had 3 active lifters in whole of Fiji in 2008.
moreWeightlifting Fiji scooped two awards at the 2011 Sports Awards on 2nd March 2012.
Weightlifting Fiji won the National Sports Federation of the Year.
Maria Liku won her second Sports Woman of the Year. She first won this award in 2009.
moreWeightlifting Fiji is very proud of an outstanding performance by its very young team of lifters, who won a total of 7 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze – the best performance ever.
The 7 Gold medals were the best of all Fiji sports at the Games followed closely by Karate and Shooting with 6 Gold medals each.
The 21 medals were won by a team of 11 lifters comprising 6 men and 5 women. Apart from Co-Coaches Joe Vueti and Paula Peniasi Tawai, the other 9 lifters are under the age of 21.
moreThe highlight of this years annual Arnold Festival Weightlifting Championships was the competition organized by Mark Cannella, between the Pacific Islands versus Mainland USA. Although the islanders team was handicapped due to not having a full team, nevertheless they came out on top of the tournament, beating Mainland USA - by winning 5 categories of the 7 categories contested.
Tulo, who won a silver medal at the IWF Continental Club Grand Prix in Penang, Malaysia in December 2010, is poised to be awarded GOLD Medal for the same event.
According to Hindustan Times of India (March 9th 2011), the Gold Medallist from the competition, Sukhen Dey of India, has already been caught with a positive result from the Drug Test at the event. This means that he automatically loses his Gold Medal, once the IWF goes through the appropriate announcement process. (see story on page 2)
moreThe Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is one dope offence away from another international ban. Two lifters, Sukhen Dey and Anupdeo Toppo, are already in the dope net having tested positive in the Continental Clubs Grand Prix in Penang, Malaysia, last December. Dey won gold in Malaysia and silver in the 56kg category of the Delhi Games. Toppo bagged silver in the 77kg category in Penang.
This means another offence in an international competition or failing a random test by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) could spell doom for the India months after it paid $50,000 (Rs 22.5 lakh approx.) to the international federation to compete in the Delhi Games. The fine is for three or more dope offences in one calendar year.
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OLYMPIC youth weightlifting gold medallist Manueli Tulo lived up to his words of increasing Fiji's medal tally at the Pacific Games in New Caledonia. Tulo won three gold medals for Fiji in the 56kg weightlifting competition at Conception Hall in Mont-Dore yesterday.
He dedicated his first Pacific Games gold medal to all the fathers in Fiji who celebrated Father's Day on Sunday. The Levuka lad snatched a personal best of 105kg and lifted 126kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 231kg.
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SENSATIONAL weightlifter Manueli Tulo will be Team Fiji's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Pacific Games in Noumea, New Caledonia tomorrow.
The 20-year-old Levuka lad, who is ranked number one in the Oceania, is one of Fiji's top gold medal prospects.
Tulo is region's finest weightlifter in the junior and senior 56 kilogram category.
His dad Sunia Uataletale, who first received the news from Times Sport, said he was proud of his son's achievement.
moreManueli Tulo, took a conservative approach for his comeback competition at the World Championships in Turkey.
He finished in 30th place overall in the 56Kg weight category, with a conservative lift of 220kg.
This was well short of his Personal best of 240Kg, which he recorded in Suva at the 2010 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.
Weightlifting Fiji had targeted a top 25 finish, as he needs to start accumulating points towards his Olympic Qualification for London 2012.
moreThe Oceania Foundation and the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) last week, were pleased to announce yesterday the awarding of Samsung scholarships to athletes from the region to assist them in preparing for the 2010 SYOG or the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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