LITI David Andrew

New Zealand
Weightlifting
11 Jul 1996
25
Male
AUCKLAND
 
New Zealand
AUCKLAND
 
New Zealand

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
WLF Weightlifting Men's +109kg 5

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo International Forum
Men's +109kg Group A
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
YearLocation+105kg - Total+105kg - Snatch+105kg - C&J+109kg - Total+109kg - Snatch+109kg - C&J
2019Pattaya, THA---16th (400)21st (173)12th (227)
2018Ashgabat, TKM---12th (395)20th (169)11th (226)
2017Anaheim, CA, USA14th (388)14th (166)11th (222)---

Oceania Championships
YearLocation+105kg - Total+105kg - Snatch+105kg - C&J+109kg - Total+109kg - Snatch+109kg - C&J
2019Apia, SAM---(---)2nd (177)(---)
2018Le Mont-Dore, NCL1st (360)1st (160)1st (220)---


Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified
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Big Bear (stuff.co.nz, 10 Apr 2018)
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Athlete
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English
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Tina Ball [personal], NZL
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He played elite age-group level rugby union in New Zealand. (stuff.co.nz, 10 Apr 2018)
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Six weeks before the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, he was told that he was not fit to compete due to an injury suffered earlier in the year. He kept training anyway and went on to win a gold medal at the 2018 Games. (Between Two Beers Podcast, 01 Apr 2021)

In 2018 he injured an ankle ligament. (Between Two Beers Podcast, 01 Apr 2021)

In 2017 he was out with an injury for seven months. The same year he received a diagnosis of mumps. (Between Two Beers Podcast, 01 Apr 2021)
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He began weightlifting at One Tree Hill College in Auckland, New Zealand. (stuff.co.nz, 10 Apr 2018)
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He was spotted by coach Tina Ball when he was playing rugby union in Auckland, New Zealand, and she persuaded him to take up weightlifting. "To be honest, it's boring at first, you just come to snatch and clean and jerk. You're just like, 'Who wants to do this?'" (stuff.co.nz, 10 Apr 2018; tvnz.co.nz, 19 Dec 2017)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Between Two Beers Podcast, 01 Apr 2021)
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He trains at Gillies Ave Weightlifting Gym in Auckland, New Zealand. (tvnz.co.nz, 10 Jun 2020; Instagram profile, 15 May 2021)
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His mother, and coach Tina Ball. "It was only [Tina] and my mum that believed I could be something in weightlifting. I didn't even believe in myself." (tvnz.co.nz, 19 Dec 2017)
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"To achieve goals, you've got to set goals first, and then chip away at them bit by bit." (Instagram profile, 22 May 2021)
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He received the David Dixon Award for outstanding sporting spirit at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, after winning a gold medal and responding compassionately when silver medallist Lauititi Lui of Samoa had suffered an injury that left him in a wheelchair during competition. (iwf.net, 16 Apr 2018)

General Interest

General
EARLY DAYS
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, to Tongan parents, he grew up in Tonga before moving back to New Zealand at age 10. "My family was well off in Tonga, but when they came back to New Zealand we kind of struggled for the first 10 years. We wouldn't have enough to eat. We'd get home from school and go straight to sleep. We'd call it 'sleep for dinner'." (odt.co.nz, 09 Oct 2017; slow-journalism.com, 16 May 2020; olympic.org.nz, 04 Jul 2015, 01 Sep 2018)

MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNER
He is a supporter of the New Zealand suicide prevention organisation Live Undefeated. "It's a cause I'm passionate about, because I learnt back when I was in high school that New Zealand has the top rate of suicide in the world, and a lot of that statistic was Tongans actually committing suicide. It's hard for me to hear all these things about my own people and if I can help in a certain way that would be good for me and for them as well." (Olympic Weightlifting New Zealand Facebook page, 06 Jun 2018)

COACHING
He has been an assistant coach at the Olympic Weightlifting gym in Auckland, New Zealand, which was set up by his coach Tina Ball. (strengthhq.co.nz, 14 Sep 2017)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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