Leotina Petelo
Sport
Country Samoa
SportWeightlifter
Medal record
Women's Weightlifter
Representing  Samoa
Pacific Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg snatch
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg clean & jerk
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg total
Oceania Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg junior
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg senior
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg junior
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia +81kg senior

Leotina Sivelio Petelo is a Samoan weightlifter who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games.

Petelo is from Ululoloa, Salailua and Saleaula and was educated at Faleata College.[1]

She contested the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, coming 5th in the 81 kg category.[2] At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia she won three gold medals in the 81 kg division.[1][3][4] She also won gold in the junior and senior 81 kg categories at the 2019 Oceania Weightlifting Championships and 2019 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, which were held concurrently.[3][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "7 Gold Medals for 17-year-old Lifter from Savaii, Leotina Sivelio Petelo!". Samoa Global News. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "Sport: Dream becomes reality for Samoan weightlifters at Junior World Champs". RNZ. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 Thomas Airey (12 July 2019). "Samoan weightlifters rolling with four Pacific Games golds already on Day Four". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Sport: Samoa surge into 2nd on Pacific Games medal table". RNZ. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Local girl wins seven golds in weightlifting". Samoa 2019. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.


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