Seine Stowers secures Two Silver Medals and a Bronze for Samoa at IWF Junior and Youth Weightlifting Championship 2025

May 4, 2025

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The National Bank of Samoa, Samoa Junior Weightlifting Team have secured two silver medals and one bronze medal through the valiant efforts of 15-year-old Seine Stowers.

Stowers, who hails from Faala Palauli, is competing in the 76kg Women’s category at the IWF Junior and Youth World Weightlifting Championship 2025 in Lima, Peru

Last month at the Oceania Weightlifting Championships in Australia, Seine Stowers won 2 GOLD MEDALS for Samoa and set 3 OCEANIA RECORDS for the women’s 77kg.

Head Coach of the nbs Samoa Weightlifting national squad, Tuaopepe Asiata Jerry Wallwork, said he is proud of the efforts by the youngster, who took up weightlifting just a year ago when she was 14.

Tuaopepe says the next generation of champions for Samoa Weightlifting are coming through, and they are a passionate group of young women and men, who work hard, are highly disciplined and listen to advice from the veterans around them.

Tuaopepe is in Peru with two youngsters at the world championship competition. Emmanuel Ulimasao is participating in the 96kg male category.

Tuaopepe continues to lead the Samoa Weightlifting Federation on a voluntary basis and is grateful for the support of the National Bank of Samoa.

Samoa’s national weightlifting team is powered by the National Bank of Samoa through ongoing financial support.

Samoa’s weightlifters are Samoa’s most successful national team, never failing to produce results. At the Oceania Championship 2025 campaign in Melbourne, Australia in April, Samoa’s lifters achieved what no other national representative team have done before at the regional level.

The National Bank of Samoa – Samoa Weightlifting team of 15 athletes and 3 management achieved a total 15 Gold, three Silver and three Bronze medals at the 2025 Oceania Championships – while setting two new Commonwealth records and 18 new Oceania records!