Niusila Opeloge
{{short description|Samoan weightlifter}}
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| sport = Weightlifting
| event =Men's 105 kg
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{{MedalSport | Men's Weightlifting}}
{{MedalCountry | {{SAM}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalBronze| 2002 Manchester |85 kg Snatch}}
{{MedalGold| 2010 Delhi|105 kg}}
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Niusila Opeloge is a weightlifter from Samoa..{{Cite web |date=2008-03-06 |title=Top Samoa weightlifter banned for using steroids |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/175847/top-samoa-weightlifter-banned-for-using-steroids |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}
Family
Opeloge comes from a weightlifting family.{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/programmes/champions-of-the-pacific/audio/2018817082/meet-the-opeloges-samoa-s-first-family-of-weightlifting |title=Meet the Opeloges: Samoa's first family of weightlifting |publisher=RNZ |date=20 October 2021 |access-date=27 October 2021}} She and her sister Ele Opeloge are both Commonwealth Games gold medalist weightlifters, both winning their medals on the same day.[http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/8107794/opeloge-make-it-double-samoan-family-celebration/ Opeloge make it double Samoan family celebration] Retrieved 11 October 2010.
Career
Opeloge took up weightlifting in 1999. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England he won a bronze in the 85 kg snatch event.[http://results.cwgdelhi2010.org/en/News.mvc/Detail/CompEventDetail/6392afd4-fe5c-4613-9063-32d8facf038c News: 105kg Facts & figures]{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} CWG official website Retrieved 11 October 2010, At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India he won gold in the 105 kg to give Samoa its third gold medal of the Games.[http://results.cwgdelhi2010.org/en/News.mvc/Detail/CompEventDetail/142f38f0-33c6-445b-a6c2-d8a72b2b3e04 News: weightlifting 105kg men]{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} CWG official website. Retrieved 11 October 2010. In the process, he also became the first Samoan to win medals in any sport at two Commonwealth Games. Opeloge was suspended in 2007 for two years due to a doping.{{Cite web |date=2008-03-06 |title=Top Samoa weightlifter banned for using steroids |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/175847/top-samoa-weightlifter-banned-for-using-steroids |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} The use of banned substances in Weightlifting is prohibited and is considered cheating.
References
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Category:Samoan male weightlifters
Category:Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Samoa
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Samoa
Category:Doping cases in weightlifting
Category:Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in weightlifting
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in weightlifting
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