Don Opeloge broke records and made a significant step forward in the Paris 2024 rankings when he won the 102 kg title for Samoa at the Oceania Championships held in Auckland, New Zealand, from February 21 to 25, the IWF official website reports.

Dika Toua, the first female weightlifter to compete at the Olympic Games five times, has begun her quest to make it six.

Dika Toua, whose first appearance at the Commonwealth Games was 20 years ago in Manchester, came within one lift of winning her fourth Games medal at the age of 38, at the National Exhibition Centre here.

A champion and two silver medallists from last year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and two current world record-holders, are among the women who will raise the standard of weightlifting at Birmingham 2022 to "an all-time high".

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) and the country's best-known Olympian, Dika Toua, have backed a campaign urging residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Tomorrow, one day after carrying her nation’s flag at the opening ceremony and 7,616 days after making the first lift by any woman at the Olympic Games, Dika Toua will be on the weightlifting platform again.

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has insisted history-making weightlifter Dika Toua remains in its Olympic plans and has offered the athlete support, after a complaint was made to the police about her.

Athletes from Papua New Guinea have asked to be allowed into Australia to train for this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Papua New Guinea weightlifters Dika Toua and Morea Baru have said they are happy to be back with their families after a period in quarantine. 

Anybody who follows the world of weightlifting closely must be in need of an uplift, judging by recent headlines on insidethegames and elsewhere.

Weightlifters Steven Kari and Dika Toua were named male and female athlete of the year, respectively, at Papua New Guinea's SP Sports Awards.

Weightlifter Dika Toua and rugby league star Ase Boas claimed the best female and best male athlete of the year prizes at the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) SP Sports Awards.

Vanuatu 2017 chief executive Clint Flood has admitted the Organising Committee was "surprised" at Tahiti opting not to take part in the Opening Ceremony of the Pacific Mini Games but claimed their decision was "not political".

Erika Yamasaki became Australia’s first-ever Pacific Games gold medallist as she claimed two 53 kilograms titles on the opening day of the weightlifting event at the PNG Power Dome here today.