Dika Toua
Papua New Guinea weightlifter
Loa Dika Toua (born 23 June 1984) is a Papua New Guinean Olympian weightlifter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the women's 49 kg class.
She currently competes in the 49 kg weight class. She is a 15 time, and current, Oceania champion and a former Commonwealth champion. She is also the current Pacific Games champion.
Career
Olympic games
At just 16 years of age, she was the inaugural woman to lift weight at an Olympic event, competing in the 48 kg category at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Toua finished in tenth place with a total lift of 117.5 kg.
She was the national flag bearer at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. This time competing in the women's 53 kg weight class, she lifted a total of 177.5 kg to place sixth.
Toua qualified for Papua New Guinea in the women's 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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