Tuau Lapua Lapua

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 56 kg from 2009 to 2010, 62 kg from 2010 to 2014, 69 kg in 2016, 81 kg from 2019 to 2020. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (69 kg to 81 kg) and again in June 2025. At 80.66 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 85 kg.

Latest result: 2020 Australian Open, 28 February 2020, 81 kg, total 287 kg, place 2.

Best lifts in each class

The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.

Tuau Lapua Lapua's record in context: where the best total ranks, how the snatch compares with the clean and jerk, and the lifts behind the best Sinclair score.

Best Sinclair score

409.7

From 268 kg at 61.75 kg bodyweight, 2013 Pacific Mini Games. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

307th of 512

287 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 81 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

76%

At the best total, 124 kg of 163 kg. A higher share means a stronger snatch for the clean and jerk. Eight in ten men lifting in national federation meets sit between 71% and 86%.

Age at best total

29

Turned 29 in 2020, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

17 of 20

Of the other three: two with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one entered without taking an attempt.

Tuau Lapua Lapua made 69% of snatch attempts and 65% of clean and jerk attempts at the competitions on this site, against 58% and 56% for every lifter at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998. Below, each attempt in turn. Third attempts are the hardest: lifters ask for their heaviest weight last.

The lifters Tuau Lapua Lapua has met most often in the same class, three times or more with both posting a total, and how often each finished ahead.

Rival	Met	Tuau Lapua Lapua ahead	Rival ahead
Manuel Minginfel	8	0	8
Morea Baru	4	1	3
Vaipava Ioane	4	1	3
Stevick Patris	4	3	1
Brown Chester Ramohaka	3	3	0
Ioane Haumili	3	3	0

Every result, newest first, with all six attempts. A struck-through weight is a missed attempt and a dash an attempt not taken. A dash under Total means no total was recorded, and "No lifts" that the lifter was entered but did not lift. Places are for the total. A row that names two events was one competition scored for both; its places can differ because each ranks its own field.

Swipe the table sideways to see every attempt.

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Tuau Lapua Lapua.