User:Dave69kg

David Adeyemo is a Nigerian Weightlifter a competitor in the 69kg men division, David won both international and local medals for Nigeria, a  consecutive National Champion He won Silver medal  in Kada Games Nigeria 2009, and Gold medal  in Cairo Egypt 2010, In 2011 he won  Gold medal at the Garden city Games Later that year he won Gold medal again at the Commonwealth championships in South Africa,he competed at the Olympic qualifiers in Kenya and scored point for Nigeria with a total lift of 263 kg due to kneel Injury, so he traveled to the Seychelles Island where he was secretly training with Coach Dixon Williams, Coach McDonald and with the help of Barbara Hoareau and Robert Rose before returning home to compete at the 2012 Eko Games,he improved to 287kg at the the Games he won Gold Medal again for Bayelsa State,  he was also the general team captain of team Bayelsa to the competition,he was awarded the best athlete of Eko 2012 and promoted from grade level 08 to grade level 10 by the Governor of Bayelsa state Hon Henry Seriake Dickson. David is a performing athlete, a coach, and a personal trainer. He was appointed to coach the Kenya national weightlifting team by the kenya National Olympic Committee, an Olympic solidarity program that enables him coach the team ahead of the 20th Commonwealth Games, he serve as the National coach, one of his focus was to prepare Mercy Obiero the Kenya's first female Olympic weightlifter for the commonwealth games in Glasgow Scotland, Mercy improved from 80kg snatch to 87 kg and 106 clean & Jerk to 117, she likes David's training cycle and trained with all her heart during the training camp. He also coached James Adede to qualify for the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio Brazil David said learnt a lot from Keith Morgan the Head Coach of Crystal Palace in London, he adapted to Keith's training cycle and hit total of 292k in training, his best ever was 127 snatch and 165 clean and jerk. he learns from Prof Kyle Pierce the coach of Louisiana State University in Shreveport USA a professor in Kinsiology, he stay in Dallas Texas for most of his training and sometimes return back home for national competitions he was appointed the assistant Coach of Bayelsa State Nigeria, He later moved to the USA permanently. David's favorite quote is "No pain no gain"