Matile Sitagata

Matile Sitagata, born on 17 August 1992, is a Samoan powerlifter and an Oceania, Pacific Games and Junior World Champion. She began training for the sport only after the 2011 Pacific Games in Noumea and entered her first competition that December. At the 2012 Oceania Powerlifting Championships she won gold in the Junior 84 kilogram plus class and set a new Junior World Record in the deadlift of 220 kilograms. At her first World Championships in Suzdal, Russia, she won gold in the same class with a 455 kilogram total and was crowned Junior World Champion, retained that crown in Potchefstroom in 2014, and in Melbourne that year won her first Open Oceania title.