Mary Opeloge
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Nationality | Samoan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Motoʻotua, Samoa | 24 January 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 30 January 2022 |
Mary Opeloge (born 24 January 1992) is a Samoan weightlifter.[1] She competed in the women's 75 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal.[2][3] She won Gold at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.[4]
She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She finished in 11th place in the women's 75 kg event.[5] She was the flagbearer for Samoa during the opening ceremony.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Mary is the younger sister of Ele & Niusila Opeloge who are Commonwealth Gold medalists.[7] She also has two other brothers who are also weightlifters.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "Sport: Silver and bronze for Pacific lifters". Radio New Zealand. 30 July 2014.
- ^ "Silver Effort". Samoa Observer. 31 July 2014.
- ^ Narain, Pravin (28 May 2016). "Mary disappointed with win". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
- ^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
- ^ "Meet the Opeloges: Samoa's first family of weightlifting". RNZ. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Leggat, David (12 October 2010). "Weightlifting: Siblings bring home gold for Samoa". NZ Herald. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
External links
[edit]- Mary Opeloge at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Mary Opeloge at Olympics.com
- Mary Opeloge at Olympedia
- Mary Opeloge at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Mary Opeloge at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
Kategorien:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Samoan female weightlifters
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Samoa
- Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Samoa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Pacific Games gold medalists for Samoa
- Pacific Games medalists in weightlifting
- Oceanian weightlifting biography stubs
- Samoan sportspeople stubs