Oliva Kirisome

Oliva Kirisome is a Samoan powerlifter who represents Samoa at the Pacific Games. Samoa Global News reported in July 2019, at the Games held in Apia, that he won another Pacific Games gold medal and set a new Pacific Games record with a lifted total of 330 kilograms, breaking his own earlier record of 327 kilograms and so also setting a new record for Oceania. The same report says it was his third Pacific Games and third medal, that he was then 33 years old, that he is the youngest of the five children of Tamatoa and Uputaua Keresome, and that he worked as the facilities coordinator for Digicel Samoa, whose support let him balance his work with national training. He is described as holding several powerlifting records for Oceania, Asia and the Pacific Games, and he dedicated his gold medal to Samoa.