Agustin Kitan

Agustin Podes Kitan is a Filipino Paralympic powerlifter, born on 6 August 1976 in Baguio and a native of Bauko in Mountain Province. He acquired an orthopedic impairment through poliomyelitis and took up powerlifting in 1996. He made his Summer Paralympics debut at Athens in 2004, finishing fourteenth of sixteen with a 120 kg lift in the 52 kg event, and returned in 2012, when he recorded no valid mark. At the 2014 Asian Para Games he lifted 150 kg in the 59 kg class and placed seventh, and at the 2016 Paralympics he was seventh again with 145 kg. His best result came in 2017, when a 158 kg lift in the 65 kg event earned a bronze medal in Kuala Lumpur, and he then competed at the 2017 World Para Powerlifting Championships in Mexico.