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Cikamatana wins 3 gold medals for Australia at 2020 Roma World Cup

Cikamatana wins 3 gold medals for Australia at 2020 Roma World Cup
Fiji born Australian weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana has collected 3 gold medals at the Roma 2020 Weightlifting World Cup

Fiji born Australian weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana has collected 3 gold medals at the Roma 2020 Weightlifting World Cup.

Cikamatana finished with the best of 115kg in the snatch and 140kg in the clean and jerk.

Cikamatana has been making headlines across the world as she broke 46 weightlifting records, including three world records, in one day last August.

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Cikamatana broke seven snatch records with her 114kg lift in the 87kg category, then crashed multiple records with an astonishing 155kg clean and jerk to claim two junior world records for a combined total of 269kg.

She is now the No.1 junior weightlifter in her category in the world by a whopping 50 kilograms.

Cikamatana, who won gold for Fiji in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, decided not to represent Fiji after a dispute with Weightlifting Fiji when they hired an international coach against her wishes and tried to force athletes to return to Fiji to train.

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