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Tuvalu Powerlifting Federation

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Sport
  
Powerlifting

Founded
  
2013 (2013)

Headquarters
  
Vaiaku, Funafuti

Abbreviation
  
TPF

Regional affiliation
  
Oceania

Affiliation
  
International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) provisional member

The Tuvalu Powerlifting Federation (TPF) is the organisation recognised by the International Powerlifting Federation as the powerlifting federation of Tuvalu.

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History

Tuvalu qualified 15 athletes in powerlifting to represent Tuvalu at the 2015 Pacific Games. Telupe Iosefa received the first ever gold medal won by Tuvalu at the Pacific Games in the powerlifting 120 kg male division with a total of 805.0 kg.

Notable Tuvaluan powerlifters

  • Telupe Iosefa: 120 kg male division with a total of 805.0 kg in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games. This was an Oceania/Commonwealth Powerlifting Federation record; 105 kg male division with a total of 647.5 kg at the 2013 Commonwealth Mens Powerlifting Championships, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Teofoga Edueni Sonya Dabwido: 84 kg female division, with a total of 332.5 kg in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games.
  • Asenate Manoa: 72 kg female division, with a total of 340 kg in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games.

    • Affiliations

  • Tuvalu Athletics Association (TAA)
  • Commonwealth Powerlifting Federation (CPF)
  • International Powerlifting Federation (IPF)

    • References

    Tuvalu Powerlifting Federation Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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