Matile Sitagata

Matile Sitagata

Personal information
Born	(1992-08-17) August 17, 1992 Faga'alu, American Samoa
Medal record IPF Junior World Championships 2013 Suzdal Squat 2013 Suzdal Deadlift 2013 Suzdal Total 2013 Suzdal BP 2014 Potchefstroom Squat 2014 Potchefstroom Deadlift 2014 Potchefstroom Total 2014 Potchefstroom BP Oceania Junior Championships 2012 Sydney Total 2013 Auckland Total Oceania Open Championships 2014 Melbourne Squat 2014 Melbourne Deadlift 2014 Melbourne Total 2014 Melbourne BP Pacific Games 2015 Port Moresby Total

Matile Sitagata (born August 17, 1992 in Faga'alu, American Samoa), is a Samoan Oceania, Pacific Games and Junior World Champion in the sport of powerlifting.

Matile only started training for powerlifting after the 2011 Pacific Games which were held in Nouméa, New Caledonia in September. At her first powerlifting competition in December 2011 it was obvious that she was a real talent and that she was going to be a great champion. Her first international competition was in December 2012 at the Oceania Powerlifting Championships where she exploded onto the scene with a gold medal^[1] in the Junior 84+kg class and a fantastic new Junior World Record^[2] in the deadlift of 220 kg.

At her first World Championships held in Suzdal Russia Matile won Gold in the 84+kg class with 455 kg Total^[3] and was crowned Junior World Champion^[4] for the first time. Later that year in Auckland New Zealand she again won the Oceania Junior Champion^[5] trophy in the 84+kg class and also came away with the Best Junior lifter award.

She retained her Junior World crown^[6] in June 2014 in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Later that year in Melbourne she won her first Open Oceania title in the 84+kg class^[7] though she was still a junior and smashed her own Junior WR set in 2012 with an easy 222.5 kg second attempt.

In 2015, she was denied the chance to win her third Junior World crown in Finland due to funding limitations but made up for this by breaking numerous records in Port Moresby PNG at the 2015 Pacific Games. Besides winning the gold medal in the 84+kg class^[8] she set four Junior World Records^[9] and broke an Open WR with 237.5 kg in the deadlift.^[10]

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