Aisake Tuitupou

Aisake Tuitupou is a Tongan New Zealander weightlifter who has represented New Zealand at the Oceania Weightlifting Championships and Tonga at the Pacific Games.

Aisake Tuitupou
Sport
Country Tonga
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Tonga
Pacific Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +109kg total
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +109kg clean & jerk
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Apia +109kg snatch
Representing  New Zealand
Oceania Weightlifting Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Gold Coast +105kg clean & jerk
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Gold Coast +105kg total

Tuitupou works as a schoolteacher in Auckland, New Zealand.[1][2]

He competed in the 2017 IWF Australian Open for New Zealand.[3] Later that year he competed in the 2017 Oceania Weightlifting Championships for New Zealand, winning silver in the clean & jerk, and bronze for total lift. At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia he competed for Tonga, winning bronze in the over-109 kg snatch, but gold in the clean & jerk and total, after Lauititi Lui and David Liti missed all three of their attempts.[4][5]

References
  1. "welcome to new Staff" (PDF). Mangere College Newsletter. 2018. p. 4. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. "OTHC New Teachers 2021". One Tree Hill College. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. "Sport: Papatoetoe weightlifters Pomelile, Tuitupou and Rogers primed for Aussie Open". Stuff. 24 February 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  4. Thomas Airey (14 July 2019). "Faamausilifala takes chance as Lui and Liti flounder". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. "Tuitupou creates biggest upset to win two gold medals for Tonga". Loop Tonga. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2022.


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