Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | Nauruan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 22 September 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 172 kg (379 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Nauru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Men's +105kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Itte Junior Ronson Detenamo (born 22 September 1986 in Buada) is a Nauruan weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category.
Detenamo represented Nauru at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing 14th in the men's 105+kg category.[1] He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and three gold medals at the 2007 South Pacific Games.[2]
He was Nauru's sole representative at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He achieved a personal best by lifting 386 kg in the super-heavyweight category.[3]
He took part in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and after being described as Nauru's best hope for a gold medal there,[4] he won silver.
He was also a participant at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 14th.[5]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he was Nauru's flagbearer.[6]
Detenamo's father and older sister are also weightlifters, as are other members of his family.[7][5] His father introduced him to the sport, which Detenamo took up at the age of 10.[6]
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).