Luisa Peters

{{short description|Cook Islands weightlifter}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Luisa Peters

| image = Luisa Peters Rio2016.jpg

| caption = Peters at the 2016 Olympics

| fullname = Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|6|27}}

| birth_place = Rarotonga, Cook Islands

| height = 165 cm{{cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/luisa-fatiaki-taitapu-peters |title=Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters |website=Rio2016.com |publisher=Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210233352/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/luisa-fatiaki-taitapu-peters |archive-date=10 December 2016}}

| weight = 100 kg

| country = {{COK}}

| sport = Weightlifting

| coach = Paul Coffa (club)
Unakea Kauvai (national)

| club = Oceania Weightlifting Institute{{cite web |url=http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=peters-luisa-fatiaki-taitapu-1225379/index.html |title=Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters |website=nbcolympics.com |publisher=NBC Olympics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919173156/http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=peters-luisa-fatiaki-taitapu-1225379/index.html |archive-date=19 September 2016}}

| event = +75 kg

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Women's weightlifting}}

{{MedalCountry|{{COK}}}}

{{MedalComp|Pacific Games}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Port Moresby|+75 kg}}

{{MedalComp|Commonwealth Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Pune|+75 kg}}

{{MedalComp|Oceania Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Port Moresby|+75 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2016 Suva|+75 kg}}

}}

Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters (born 27 June 1993) is a police officer and retired{{cite web |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132485/athletes-appointed-iwf-executive-board |title=Olympic weightlifting champion Diaz and police officer Peters join Osei on IWF Executive Board |publisher=Insidethegames.biz |date=13 January 2023 | access-date=3 April 2023}} weightlifter from the Cook Islands, who competes in the +75 kg weight division. She participated in two Olympics (2012, 2016) and three Commonwealth Games (2010, 2014, 2018) with the best result of fifth place in 2018. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific Games.

Peters took up weightlifting aged 16. In 2016, she was elected on a four-year term as a vice president of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, becoming its first female official.

In 2025, she was elected as the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee’s first female president.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/sport/other-sports/first-female-cisnoc-president/|title=First female CISNOC president|date=5 April 2025|accessdate=6 April 2025}}