Birth Date: | 18 September 2000[1] |
Birth Place: | Funafuti, Tuvalu |
Country: | |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Manuila Raobu (born 18 September 2000) is a Tuvaluan Weightlifter representing Tuvalu at the Commonwealth Games and Pacific Games.
At the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships, he came first in the 56kg youth category.[2] He was part of Tuvalu's team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast,[3] where he was Tuvalu's flagbearer at the opening ceremony.[4] He later competed at the 2015, 2019 and the 2023 Pacific Games.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was stranded in Samoa.[5] While there, he trained with Samoan weightlifters under Tuaopepe Jerry Wallwork.[5] At the Oceania Championships 2019, he came in position five and position three in Oceania Junior Championship.[6]
At the 2022 Pacific Mini Games in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, he won two gold medals in the 73kg category and gold in the 2022 Oceania Weightlifting Championships held simultaneously.[7] [8]
At the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands, he won three silver medals in the 73kg category.