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Aisake Tuitupou is a Tongan New Zealander weightlifter who has represented New Zealand at the Oceania Weightlifting Championships and Tonga at the Pacific Games.
Tuitupou works as a schoolteacher in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] [2]
He competed in the 2017 IWF Australian Open for New Zealand. [3] Later that year he competed in the 2017 Oceania Weightlifting Championships for New Zealand, winning silver in the clean & jerk, and bronze for total lift. At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia he competed for Tonga, winning bronze in the over-109 kg snatch, but gold in the clean & jerk and total, after Lauititi Lui and David Liti missed all three of their attempts. [4] [5]
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