Rupeni Varea
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| Birth name | Rupeni Fesaitu Varea | ||||||||||||||
| Born | August 13, 1968 Oinafa, Rotuma | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Fiji | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rupeni Fesaitu Varea (born 13 August 1968) is a Rotuman former weightlifter who represented Fiji.
Career
[edit]Varea represented Fiji at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He finished 17th in the 83 kg division.[1]
Varea was selected as the best performer of the Fiji contingent at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This followed his fifth overall placing in the 85 kg division ahead of New Zealander James Swann with a total lift of 310 kg.[2]
Fijian rugby union centre Ravai Fatiaki is his second cousin.
References
[edit]- ^ "Rupeni Varea". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ "Archived News: September 1998". Rotuma.net. 1998-09-22. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
External links
[edit]- Rupeni Varea at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
- Rupeni Varea at Olympedia
- Rupeni Varea at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- Olympic weightlifters for Fiji
- Rotuman people
- Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Fijian male weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji
- Pacific Games silver medalists for Fiji
- Pacific Games bronze medalists for Fiji
- Pacific Games medalists in weightlifting
- Oceanian weightlifting biography stubs
- Fijian sportspeople stubs