Olympic lifters elected at the head of Cook Islands and Samoa NOCs

Great news coming from Oceania, where two prominent Olympic lifters were elected to the presidency of their respective National Olympic Committees: in Cook Islands, Luisa Peters is the new NOC leader, while in Samoa Jerry Wallwork will be at the helm of the country’s Olympic body.

Luisa Peters (COK)

Luisa Peters is a member of the IWF Athletes Commission and is also sitting on the IWF Executive Board. She is Vice-President of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation and President of her nation’s Weightlifting Federation.

As an active lifter, she represented the Cook Islands at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, respectively in London (GBR) and Rio (BRA). She was also present in three editions of the Commonwealth Games.

Jerry Wallwork (SAM)

Jerry Wallwork, Oceania Weightlifting Federation Senior Vice-President, competed for Samoa at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, after winning a silver medal in 1991 at the Pacific Games. Mr Wallwork is the President of Samoa Weightlifting and also a successful coach at the international level. In this capacity, he led with success one of his athletes – Ele Opeloge – to a silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The election of Luisa Peters and Jerry Wallwork confirms the high status of weightlifting in Oceania, where other officials of the Sport are also presiding over their National Committees: Marcus Stephen (Nauru), Ed Imo (American Samoa), Michael Bloomfield (Tonga) and Anthony Muller (Marshall Islands).  

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