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| Nationality | Samoan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-01-24) 24 January 1992 (age 32) Motoʻotua, Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mary Opeloge (born 24 January 1992) is a Samoan weightlifter. She competed in the women's 75 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal. She won Gold at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.
She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She finished in 11th place in the women's 75 kg event. She was the flagbearer for Samoa during the opening ceremony.
Personal life
Mary is the younger sister of Ele & Niusila Opeloge who are Commonwealth Gold medalists. She also has two other brothers who are also weightlifters.
References
- "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
- 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)
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- 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