Peters at the 2016 Olympics
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Full name | Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters | |||||||||
Born |
Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
27 June 1993 |||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | |||||||||
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Country | Cook Islands | |||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||
Event(s) | +75 kg | |||||||||
Club | Oceania Weightlifting Institute | |||||||||
Coached by | Paul Coffa (club) Unakea Kauvai (national) |
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Medal record
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Luisa Fatiaki Taitapu Peters (born 27 June 1993) is a weightlifter from the Cook Islands, who competes in the +75 kg weight division. She participated in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games with the best result of sixth place in 2014. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific Games.
Peters took up weightlifting aged 16. In 2016 she was elected on a four-year term as a vice president of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, becoming its first female official.