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Dika Toua

December 15, 2023

Loa Dika Toua (born 23 June 1984) is a Papua New Guinean Olympian weightlifter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's −49 kg.[1]

Dika Toua
Personal information
NationalityPapua New Guinean
Born (1984-06-23) 23 June 1984 (age 39)
Port Moresby
Height1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Weight48–53 kg (106–117 lb)
Sport
Country Papua New Guinea
SportWeightlifting
EventWomen's 53 kg
Coached byPaul Coffa
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals5
World finals4
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  Papua New Guinea
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow 53 kg
2006 Melbourne 53 kg
2018 Gold Coast 53 kg
Pacific Games
2007 Apia 53 kg
2011 Nouméa 53 kg
2019 Apia 49 kg
Commonwealth Championships
2012 Apia 53 kg
2015 Pune 53 kg
2019 Apia 49 kg
2017 Gold Coast 53 kg
Pacific Mini Games
2017 Port Vila 53 kg
2021 Saipan 49 kg
Oceania Championships
2002 Suva 53 kg
2003 Nuku'alofa 53 kg
2004 Suva 53 kg
2005 Melbourne 53 kg
2007 Apia 53 kg
2008 Auckland 53 kg
2012 Apia 53 kg
2013 Brisbane 53 kg
2014 Le Mont-Dore 53 kg
2017 Gold Coast 53 kg
2018 Le Mont-Dore 53 kg
2019 Apia 49 kg
2022 Saipan 49 kg

She competes regularly in the 53 kg weight class. She is a 13 time, and current, Oceania titlist and a Commonwealth titlist.[2] She is also the current Pacific Games champion.[3][4]

Career edit

Olympic games edit

At just 16 years of age, she was the inaugural woman to lift weight at an Olympic event, competing in the 48 kg category at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.[5] Toua finished in tenth place with a total lift of 117.5 kg.

She was the national flag bearer at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. This time competing in the women's 53 kg weight class, she lifted a total of 177.5 kg to place in sixth position.[6]

Toua qualified for Papua New Guinea in the women's 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[7] There she ranked 7th with a total lift of 184 kg which was her highest personal lift overall at any Olympics she has attended to date.[2]

She again, for the fourth consecutive time, represented Papua New Guinea at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Lifting a total of 174 kg, the veteran weightlifter finished in 12th after Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan and Cristina Iovu of Moldova were disqualified.[8]

She represented Papua New Guinea, for the fifth time at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[9][10][11]

Commonwealth games edit

In 2002 she attended the Manchester Commonwealth Games at the 48kg weight category, lifting 75kg in the clean and jerk which would have placed her 4th, official records show no weight in the snatch.[12]

In 2006, she won the silver medal in the 53 kg weight class at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.[13] It was her first major achievement at an international competition.

Competing in the same category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal, with a lift of 193 kg, just 3 kilos short of the gold and new games record.[14] Days later, the original gold medalist, 16-year-old Chika Amalaha of Nigeria failed a doping test and was stripped of her medal and placement.[15] With the medals redistributed, Toua was now the gold medalist and her lift of 193 kg became the new games record.[16]

In 2018, competing in her third games in the Gold Coast she placed second once again for her second Commonwealth games silver and third medal overall. She was 10 kilos behind the gold medalist after failing her last two lifts.[17] A month after the games ended the International Weightlifting Federation, in June, announced that the original winner, Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu of India, tested positive for testosterone from her A sample after the 2017 World Championships. The IWF had stated that if the Indian weightlifters B sample also returns positive.[18] In January 2019 the IWF has revoked the provisional suspension of Chanu and let to keep her gold medal.[19]

She finished in 5th place in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[20]

Major results edit

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2000   Sydney, Australia 48 kg 45 45 50 10 62.5 67.5 72.5 10 117.5 10
2004   Athens, Greece 53 kg 70 75 80 7 92.5 97.5 102.5 6 177.5 6
2008   Beijing, China 53 kg 77 77 80 7 104 108 108 6 184 7
2012   London, Great Britain 53 kg 75 79 79 12 95 100 100 12 174 12
2021   Tokyo, Japan 49 kg 69 72 76 12 95 95 100 8 167 10
World Championships
2003   Vancouver, Canada 53 kg 65 70 72.5 21 87.5 92.5 95 21 162.5 21
2005   Doha, Qatar 53 kg 77 79 83 9 105 105 105 -- -- --
2007   Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 53 kg 74 78 78 30 96 101 101 18 175 22
2015   Houston, United States 53 kg 76 80 80 22 103 106 109 20 183 20

Personal life edit

Toua gave birth to her first child in 2007 to husband, Mavera Gavera. She now has two children, Paul and Ani-Geua.[21] She owns her own weightlifting club in Port Moresby.[22]

References edit

  1. ^ . Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b . International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
  3. ^ 2007 South Pacific Games: Women's Weightlifting results
  4. ^ The National (PNG): "Day of medals", 29 August 2007 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Toua lifting the hearts of an island" [sic], Olympic.org
  6. ^ . International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
  7. ^ "PNG Olympians land major sponsors" 7 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, ABC Radio Australia, 6 June 2008
  8. ^ . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  9. ^ Miranda, Gabriela. "Weightlifter Loa Dika Toua 'never imagined' competing in a second Olympics. She just shattered a record with her fifth". USA TODAY. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Weightlifting record-breaker Dika back on platform, 21 years after Olympic debut". www.insidethegames.biz. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Weightlifting-Papua New Guinea's Toua becomes first 5-time woman Olympian lifter". Reuters. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Papua New Guinea Manchester 2002 | Commonwealth Games Federation". thecgf.com. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  13. ^ Sports 123: Weightlifting: Commonwealth Games 2006: Women: -53 kg 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Commonwealth Games Biography - Dika Toua". 8 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  15. ^ "Nigeria weightlifter Chika Amalaha stripped of Commonwealth Games gold". The Guardian. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  16. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's 53kg Group A". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  17. ^ "Toua bags silver this time". ABC Australia. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Sport: PNG lifter in line for gold after opponent fails doping test". Radio New Zealand. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  19. ^ "CWG gold medallist weightlifter Sanjita Chanu's provisional suspension revoked". India Today. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  20. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (30 July 2022). "India's Chanu reigns supreme in women's weightlifting 49kg class". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  21. ^ "Toua and family". The National. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  22. ^ "Dika Toua background". PNG facts. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.

External links edit

December 15, 2023
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Loa Dika Toua born 23 June 1984 is a Papua New Guinean Olympian weightlifter She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Women s 49 kg 1 Dika TouaPersonal informationNationalityPapua New GuineanBorn 1984 06 23 23 June 1984 age 39 Port MoresbyHeight1 5 m 4 ft 11 in Weight48 53 kg 106 117 lb SportCountry Papua New GuineaSportWeightliftingEventWomen s 53 kgCoached byPaul CoffaAchievements and titlesOlympic finals5World finals4Medal record Women s weightliftingRepresenting Papua New GuineaCommonwealth Games2014 Glasgow 53 kg2006 Melbourne 53 kg2018 Gold Coast 53 kgPacific Games2007 Apia 53 kg2011 Noumea 53 kg2019 Apia 49 kgCommonwealth Championships2012 Apia 53 kg2015 Pune 53 kg2019 Apia 49 kg2017 Gold Coast 53 kgPacific Mini Games2017 Port Vila 53 kg2021 Saipan 49 kgOceania Championships2002 Suva 53 kg2003 Nuku alofa 53 kg2004 Suva 53 kg2005 Melbourne 53 kg2007 Apia 53 kg2008 Auckland 53 kg2012 Apia 53 kg2013 Brisbane 53 kg2014 Le Mont Dore 53 kg2017 Gold Coast 53 kg2018 Le Mont Dore 53 kg2019 Apia 49 kg2022 Saipan 49 kgShe competes regularly in the 53 kg weight class She is a 13 time and current Oceania titlist and a Commonwealth titlist 2 She is also the current Pacific Games champion 3 4 Contents 1 Career 1 1 Olympic games 1 2 Commonwealth games 2 Major results 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External linksCareer editOlympic games edit At just 16 years of age she was the inaugural woman to lift weight at an Olympic event competing in the 48 kg category at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics 5 Toua finished in tenth place with a total lift of 117 5 kg She was the national flag bearer at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony This time competing in the women s 53 kg weight class she lifted a total of 177 5 kg to place in sixth position 6 Toua qualified for Papua New Guinea in the women s 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing 7 There she ranked 7th with a total lift of 184 kg which was her highest personal lift overall at any Olympics she has attended to date 2 She again for the fourth consecutive time represented Papua New Guinea at the London 2012 Summer Olympics Lifting a total of 174 kg the veteran weightlifter finished in 12th after Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan and Cristina Iovu of Moldova were disqualified 8 She represented Papua New Guinea for the fifth time at the 2020 Summer Olympics 9 10 11 Commonwealth games edit In 2002 she attended the Manchester Commonwealth Games at the 48kg weight category lifting 75kg in the clean and jerk which would have placed her 4th official records show no weight in the snatch 12 In 2006 she won the silver medal in the 53 kg weight class at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 13 It was her first major achievement at an international competition Competing in the same category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won the silver medal with a lift of 193 kg just 3 kilos short of the gold and new games record 14 Days later the original gold medalist 16 year old Chika Amalaha of Nigeria failed a doping test and was stripped of her medal and placement 15 With the medals redistributed Toua was now the gold medalist and her lift of 193 kg became the new games record 16 In 2018 competing in her third games in the Gold Coast she placed second once again for her second Commonwealth games silver and third medal overall She was 10 kilos behind the gold medalist after failing her last two lifts 17 A month after the games ended the International Weightlifting Federation in June announced that the original winner Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu of India tested positive for testosterone from her A sample after the 2017 World Championships The IWF had stated that if the Indian weightlifters B sample also returns positive 18 In January 2019 the IWF has revoked the provisional suspension of Chanu and let to keep her gold medal 19 She finished in 5th place in the women s 49 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham England 20 Major results editYear Venue Weight Snatch kg Clean amp Jerk kg Total Rank1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 RankOlympic Games2000 nbsp Sydney Australia 48 kg 45 45 50 10 62 5 67 5 72 5 10 117 5 102004 nbsp Athens Greece 53 kg 70 75 80 7 92 5 97 5 102 5 6 177 5 62008 nbsp Beijing China 53 kg 77 77 80 7 104 108 108 6 184 72012 nbsp London Great Britain 53 kg 75 79 79 12 95 100 100 12 174 122021 nbsp Tokyo Japan 49 kg 69 72 76 12 95 95 100 8 167 10World Championships2003 nbsp Vancouver Canada 53 kg 65 70 72 5 21 87 5 92 5 95 21 162 5 212005 nbsp Doha Qatar 53 kg 77 79 83 9 105 105 105 2007 nbsp Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 53 kg 74 78 78 30 96 101 101 18 175 222015 nbsp Houston United States 53 kg 76 80 80 22 103 106 109 20 183 20Personal life editToua gave birth to her first child in 2007 to husband Mavera Gavera She now has two children Paul and Ani Geua 21 She owns her own weightlifting club in Port Moresby 22 References edit Weightlifting TOUA Loa Dika Tokyo 2020 Olympics Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Archived from the original on 27 July 2021 Retrieved 4 September 2021 a b TOUA Dika International Weightlifting Federation Archived from the original on 27 May 2011 2007 South Pacific Games Women s Weightlifting results The National PNG Day of medals 29 August 2007 Archived 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Toua lifting the hearts of an island sic Olympic org TOUA Dika International Weightlifting Federation Archived from the original on 27 May 2011 PNG Olympians land major sponsors Archived 7 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine ABC Radio Australia 6 June 2008 Dika Toua Bio Stats and Results Olympics at Sports Reference com Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 Retrieved 17 August 2015 Miranda Gabriela Weightlifter Loa Dika Toua never imagined competing in a second Olympics She just shattered a record with her fifth USA TODAY Retrieved 4 September 2021 Weightlifting record breaker Dika back on platform 21 years after Olympic debut www insidethegames biz 23 July 2021 Retrieved 4 September 2021 Weightlifting Papua New Guinea s Toua becomes first 5 time woman Olympian lifter Reuters 24 July 2021 Retrieved 4 September 2021 Papua New Guinea Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Federation thecgf com Retrieved 23 July 2021 Sports 123 Weightlifting Commonwealth Games 2006 Women 53 kg Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Commonwealth Games Biography Dika Toua 8 August 2014 Retrieved 17 August 2015 Nigeria weightlifter Chika Amalaha stripped of Commonwealth Games gold The Guardian 1 August 2014 Retrieved 2 August 2014 Glasgow 2014 Women s 53kg Group A g2014results thecgf com Retrieved 17 August 2015 Toua bags silver this time ABC Australia 5 April 2018 Retrieved 6 April 2018 Sport PNG lifter in line for gold after opponent fails doping test Radio New Zealand 4 June 2018 Retrieved 4 June 2018 CWG gold medallist weightlifter Sanjita Chanu s provisional suspension revoked India Today 23 January 2019 Retrieved 29 May 2020 Rowbottom Mike 30 July 2022 India s Chanu reigns supreme in women s weightlifting 49kg class InsideTheGames biz Retrieved 30 July 2022 Toua and family The National 11 August 2014 Retrieved 11 August 2014 Dika Toua background PNG facts 7 January 2013 Retrieved 7 January 2013 External links editDika Toua at the International Weightlifting Federation nbsp Dika Toua at Olympedia nbsp Dika Toua at the Commonwealth Games Federation archived nbsp Athlete Biography at beijing2008 Yahoo SportsOlympic GamesPreceded byXenia Peni Flagbearer for nbsp Papua New GuineaAthens 2004 Succeeded byRyan Pini Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dika Toua amp oldid 1180702276, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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