Nauruan wins 3 gold in one division

The Pacific Games weightlifting super heavyweight champion successfully defended his title this afternoon.

Itte Detenamo from the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru, won the three gold medals on offer in the +105kg division.

The super heavyweight division ended the weightlifting competition of the XV Pacific Games.

Detenamo has now won that weight division for the third consecutive time.

The Nauruan won the snatch with a weight of 167kg, clean and jerk lift of 203kg and the overall total of 370kg.

The snatch category silver  medal went to Lauititi Lui of Samoa with a lift of 160kg and Andrius Barakauskas of New Zealand won bronze lifting the bar at 145kg.

And in the clean and jerk, Lui (202kg) got silver and David Liti of New Zealand settled for bronze (113kg).

The overall silver medal was won by Lui and bronze to Liti.

No Papua New Guineans competed in this division.