Manuel Minginfel
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| Nationality | Micronesian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 28, 1978 Yap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 F.S. Micronesia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Manuel Minginfel (born September 28, 1978)[1] is a weightlifter representing the Federated States of Micronesia.
In the 62 kg category, he ranked 10th at the 2004 Summer Olympics,[1] 7th at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships,[1] and 4th at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships.[1]
At the 2008 Oceania Championships he won the gold medal in the 62 kg category.[1] He also represented the Federated States of Micronesia in weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China,[2] where he ranked 11th in the 62 kg category. He was also his country's flag bearer during the Games' opening ceremony.[3]
He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics where he ranked #10 in the Men's 62kg category.
Minginfel is a native of Yap. He set a new record snatch in the men's 56 kilo category at the South Pacific Games in Samoa in 2007.
Men
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
| Manuel Minginfel | -62 kg | 120 kg | 15th | 155 kg | 10th | 275 kg | 11th |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "MINGINFEL Manuel". International Weightlifting Federation.
- ↑ "Hale to Olympics", Solomon Star, July 14, 2008
- ↑ "List of Flagbearers Beijing 2008" (PDF). www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2008-08-23.