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Lomalito Moala is a Tongan Australian boxer who has represented Tonga at the Commonwealth Games. He won a Bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Moala was born in New Zealand and grew up in Lower Hutt, [1] but moved to Australia in 2005 at the age of 15. [2]
He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth games in New Delhi, winning bronze in the lightweight class. [1] [3] In 2012 he was part of the Tongan team at the Oceania Boxing Championships. [4] He failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games by a single point. [5]
He was selected for the Tongan team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. [6] In the leadup to the opening ceremony he tweeted that he would wear the shirt of football club Celtic F.C. if retweeted a hundred times. [7] [8] He kept his promising at the opening ceremony, attracting media attention and the ire of Tongan fans. [9] The next day, he failed to make the weigh-in and so was not able to compete. [2] [10]
