Maximina Uepa
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_049.jpg) Weightlifting girls' 63 kg at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires on 12 October 2018. Snatch. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Nauru | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 2002 Denigomodu, Nauru | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | –64 kg, –71 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maximina Uepa (born 22 September 2002) is a Nauruan weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[1] She is the current Nauruan women's record-holder in the 71 kg category for overall, snatch and clean and jerk.
Uepa was born on 22 September 2002 in Denig, Nauru.[2] Her father, Jezza Uepa, and her brother, Maxius Uepa, are both successful powerlifters.[2] Jezza Uepa won the 120kg+ class/super heavyweight class in the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in 2019.[3] In 2015 she was the youngest competitor at the Commonwealth Youth Games, aged twelve years old. She competed in the 58kg weightlifting category.[4]
In 2018, she was flagbearer for Nauru at the Summer Youth Olympics.[5] She was recognised as Nauruan Sportsperson of the Year (Female) in 2018.[6] She was a bronze medallist in the 63kg category at the Pacific Mini Games in 2017, only beaten by Mattie Sasser (gold) and Amanda Gould (silver).[7] In 2019 she moved from the 63kg to the 71kg category.[8] She is the current Nauruan Olympic record-holder in the snatch, clean and jerk and overall; this record was set at the 2019 Pacific Games,[9] where she also won two gold medals.[10]
In August 2022, Uepa won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[11] She dedicated her medal to weightlifter Reanna Solomon,[11] who died from COVID-19 in July 2022.[11]
