{"id":410900,"date":"2024-07-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=410900"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Call-for-weightlifters-for-2025-Mini-Games-in-Palau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Call-for-weightlifters-for-2025-Mini-Games-in-Palau\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for weightlifters for 2025 Mini Games in Palau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Weightlifting Federation is calling on interested weightlifters to compete in the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau.<\/p>\n<p>CNMI Weightlifting Federation president and coach John Davis said that if they can fill every weight category, they will try to send a full team of 20 lifters.<\/p>\n<p>Interested lifters, in order to make the cut for the team, must lift the weight above a minimum standard.<\/p>\n<p>The criteria beyond lifting will be discussed at a time before training starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Mini Games is slated for June 29-July 9, 2025 in Koror, Palau.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2022 Pacific Mini Games held in the NMI, the NMI National Weightlifting Team bagged 11 gold, nine silver, and three bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>After, in the 2023 Pacific Games held at Honiara, Solomon Islands, the team won one gold, two silver, and one bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>For the recently concluded 2024 Micronesian Games in Majuro, Marshall Islands, the weightlifting team brought home three gold, five silver, and four bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Email cnmiweightlifting@gmail.com no later than Aug. 31 for inquiries.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a2293a859624c36613d92e72d46f4b2a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>First-time Micro Games athlete and gold medalist, Kaya Rasa attempts a lift in her division of the 2024 Micronesian Games in Majuro, Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Weightlifting Federation is calling on interested weightlifters to compete in the 2025 Pacific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}