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| Nationality | I-Kiribati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 February 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ruben Katoatau (born 9 February 1997 in Nauru) is an I-Kiribati weightlifter. [1]
His height is 158 cm for a weight of 68 kg. He finished 6th at Weightlifting Men's 69 kg in Gold Coast at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [2]
His previous main results were:
Then, he participated at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 67 kg (snatch 30th).
His elder brother David Katoatau represented Kiribati in weightlifting, and was the first ever gold medallist of his country at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (men's 105 kg), and has competed at three Olympic Games (2008, 2012, 2016). [3]
At the IWF Absolute Continental Ranking – Oceania he finished just behind a Samoan weightlifter, which withdraw from the 2020 Olympic Games. Katoatau will replace him at 2020 Summer Olympics, in the men's 67 kg category. [4] [5]
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