Marcus Stephen

Marcus Stephen (* 1. October in Anetan) is former and today's delegates of the .

It played first for the local crew Aces, decided then however for the gewichtheben. one created those Nauru Weightlifting Federation (NWF), in order to let the then only professional weight jack Stephen start with international matches.

It took for the first time to that in part. Since there was at that time still no olympic committee in Nauru, he successfully requested the nationality and was allowed to start for Samoa. then the establishment of the committee took place and thus could Stephen in and for Nauru.

With the olympic torch/flare run after Sydney Stephen was allowed to carry the torch/flare with its stop in Nauru.

With that it achieved however its largest successes: it won surprisingly the gold medal in tearing in the category up to 60 kg. in the category up to 59 kg and in the category up to 62 kg it got ever three times gold. With its last participation in it won again three times the silver medal in the category up to 62 kg.

He celebrated largest success with that in he is financial responsible person at the Nauruan olympic committee. To 3. May Stephen became with the parliamentary elections with 215.278 voices for that Anetan in the Nauruan parliament selected. During the last presidency of of 8. August to Stephen was a Minister of Finance and educating of Nauru, had the office to however again lay down, as new president became. In October 2004 it created the re-election in the parliament.

After Nauru that to 2005 joined, Stephen the Nauruan envoy of the IWC was appointed. It represented Nauru at the IWC congress in June 2005 in .

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