Seine Stowers
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| Nationality | Samoan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 2008[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Seine Stowers is a Samoan weightlifter. She is a junior world record holder. She was a gold medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, setting a new Games record in the 77kg division.
Early and personal life
[edit]Based in Tuana'imato, she trains in Apia at the Oceania Weightlifting Institute.[2] The seventh of eight children, she has weightlifting in her family; her older sister Feagaiga Stowers won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2018.[3][4]
Career
[edit]In 2025, at the age of 17 years old, Stowers became the first Samoan in an Olympic sport to set three world youth records as she won three gold medals at the Australian Championships, held in Melbourne in the 77kg division. Stowers broke the snatch record with 107kg, and the Clean and Jerk world youth record with a total of 137kg. At the 2025 Oceania Championship, she won two gold medals and set three Oceania youth records and three Oceania junior records. At the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, Stowers won three gold medals in the women’s 77kg category, and set 3 new Oceania records and 3 Pacific games records. She also won two silver medals and a bronze medal at the 2025 World Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Lima, Peru, in the 76kg category.[5] She also won a gold medal at the 2025 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Ahmedabad, India.[6]
Stowers won four gold medals at the 2026 Universal Weightlifting Championship in Samoa. Competing in the women's 77kg she lifted 142kg in the clean and jerk, a new junior world record, and 112kg in the snatch, also a new junior world record.[3][7][4][8]
Stowers was selected to represent Samoa at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, winning the gold medal in the 77 kg category, breaking the Commonwealth Games snatch record for the weight class with a lift of 107kg as well as a new Commonwealth Games total record of 237kg after the clean and jerk.[3][9]
References
[edit]- ↑ Nottingham, Juliet (22 July 2026). "Commonwealth Games 2026: Filip Novacki, Lachlan Kennedy, and Alana Reid: Meet the young stars on show in Glasgow". Olympics.com. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ Hogarth, Olivia (23 December 2025). "Samoan weightlifters Seine Stowers and June Sipaia are breaking records and inspiring women". abc.net.au. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 Canavan, Amy (22 July 2026). "Five big names to look out for at Glasgow 2026". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- 1 2 "From Mother's Pride to Commonwealth Dreams: Seine Stowers Eyes Glasgow Gold". Samoa Global News. 1 May 2026. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "People of the Year: Seine Stowers". samoaglobalnews.com. 31 December 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ Tofilau, Uale Omar (30 August 2025). "Stowers wins gold in India". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "18 and unstoppable: Seine Stowers crushes records as Sāmoa hosts world weightlifting elite". pmn.co.nz. 1 May 2026. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Seine sets new snatch world record". samoaobserver.ws. 30 April 2026. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Seine Stowers Strikes Gold for Samoa with Record-Breaking Performance in Glasgow". Samoa Global News. 29 July 2026. Retrieved 29 July 2026.