Nauru at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Sporting event delegation

Nauru at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Flag of Nauru
CGF code	NRU
CGA	Nauru Olympic Committee
Website	oceaniasport.com/nauru
in Birmingham, England 28 July 2022 (2022-07-28) – 8 August 2022 (2022-08-08)
Competitors	16 (11 men and 5 women) in 5 sports
Flag bearers	Christon Amram Maximina Uepa
Medals Ranked =40th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
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Nauru competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England from 28 July to 8 August 2022. It was Nauru's ninth appearance at the Games.

Christon Amram and Maximina Uepa were the country's opening ceremony flagbearers.

Nauru won one bronze medal, ranking the county a tied 40th on the medal table. Flagbearer and weightlifter Maximina Uepa won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event. This continued the island nation's streak of winning at least one medal at each edition of the games it has competed in since its debut in 1990.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	1	3
Boxing	2	0	2
Judo	3	0	3
Weightlifting	3	4	7
Wrestling	1	0	1
Total	11	5	16

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Maximina Uepa	Weightlifting	Women's 76 kg	2 August 2022

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Men
Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jireh Agege	100 m	11.08	6	did not advance
Jireh Agege	200 m	DNS		did not start

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Rank
Jonathan-Deiwea Detageouwa	Shot put	15.41	12

Women
Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Wena Gobure	100 m	13.21	7	did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries 1	Preliminaries 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Christon Amram	Featherweight	Senior (AUS) L 0 - 5	did not advance
Colan Caleb	Light welterweight	Jonas (NAM) L RSC	did not advance

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Isamaela Solomon	-60 kg	Bye	Hall (ENG) L 00 - 10	did not advance				9
Kip Kosam	-81 kg	—	Ceesay (GAM) W 10 - 00	Fleming (NIR) L 00 - 10	—	Weithers (BAR) L 00 - 10	Did not advance	7
Kendrick Taleka	-81 kg	—	Elnahas (CAN) L 00 - 10	did not advance				9

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification

Nauru qualified 4 weightlifters (two per gender). The four qualified through their respective Commonwealth Weightlifting ranking as of 28 February 2022.

Men

Athlete	Event	Weight Lifted		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & jerk	Total	Rank
Shadrach Cain	Men's -61 kg	90	116	206	7
Ditto Ika	Men's -67 kg	105	140	245	7
Ezekiel Moses	Men's -73 kg	130	155	285	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Weight lifted		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & jerk	Total	Rank
My-Only Stephen	Women's -55 kg	68	86	154	8
Bernice Detudamo	Women's -64 kg	60	81	141	12
Nancy Abouke	Women's -71 kg	87	110	197	5
Maximina Uepa	Women's -76 kg	96	119	215

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Key:

VFA - Victory by Fall.
PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lowe Bingham	Men's -65 kg	Punia (IND) L 0 - 4 (VFA)	—		Bandou (MRI) W 6 (VFA) - 4	Ramm (ENG) L 0 - 11 (VSU)	5

References

"Pacific at the Opening Ceremony of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". www.oceanianoc.org/. Oceania National Olympic Committees. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
Lee, David (3 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games: Tiny Nauru makes big impact in weightlifting arena". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
Iveson, Ali (2 August 2022). "Nauru weightlifter dedicates medal to ex-champion mother of five killed by COVID". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
Phadke, Atharv (8 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games 2022: Nauru, world's smallest Olympic country, continues medal-winning trend". www.thebridge.in/. The Bridge. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
"IWF COMMONWEALTH RANKING LIST - 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES QUALIFYING (final)" (PDF). IWF. 9 March 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.

External links

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Official site

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