Mar 5, 2024 · The Oceania Championships are happening in Nauru on February 23 & 24 and special guest Krzysztof Wierzbicki is threatening to make history with a freestyle 502kg Deadlift.

Jul 5, 2019 · The Government of Nauru has celebrated the crowning of Nauruan powerlifter Jezza Uepa as the World's Strongest Man following an incredible effort at the World Powerlifting Championship in Sweden.

Nauru Media News reports the team also broke many Oceania records at the recent Oceania Regional Powerlifting Championship held in Niue competing against other teams from Solomon, Niue, Australia, New Zealand and others.

The following are the national records in Olympic weightlifting in Nauru. Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts by the Nauru Weightlifting Federation.

Apr 19, 2023 · For the Nauru powerlifting team, they won 55 gold medals and 6 silver medals in total from the championships, according to the Nauru News Media (NTV). “Barassi Botelanga is one of many Nauruan lifters who competed and now holds an Oceania record at the recent championship,” says NTV.

Jul 5, 2019 · The Government of Nauru has celebrated the crowning of Nauruan powerlifter Jezza Uepa as the World's Strongest Man following an incredible effort at the World Powerlifting Championship in...

Nov 8, 2024 · Fresh off from their performance at the 2024 Oceania Regional Powerlifting Championship held in Nauru last week, the Niue Powerlifting Team consisting of Tony Edwards, Sydney Lui and Maxine Edwards are proud of their achievement at the event.

Mar 5, 2024 · Storms and power outages couldn’t stop the Oceania Championships in Nauru taking off and producing multiple World & Oceania Records. One of those wasn’t Kryzstof Wierzbicki in the freestyle Deadlift…

Jezza Uepa (born 1980) is a Nauruan powerlifter. [1] . Uepa has won gold medal at the 2019 World Classic Powerlifting Championships in 120+ category. In his collection from world championships he has got also two silver and one bronze medal.

Dec 13, 2022 · The 2022 Oceania Championships saw the Pacific nation of Nauru ascendant, with the island powerhouse taking out 6 of the 8 open classes to dominate in the Men’s team scoring. Dyke Daoe was Nauru’s best with 677kg @ 77kg, yet was outpointed by Australia’s Matt Middleton’s 781kg in the 105s for Best Men’s lifter overall.