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

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

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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