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June 22, 2017
Preview of Men’s Track Events

Since the last Oceania Area Championship we have seen the Island’s top sprinter, Banuve Tabakaucoro (FIJ) leave the sport, and the newly-recruited Jeremy Dodson (SAM) re-write the record books.   Jeremy Dodson had represented the USA in the Pan Am Games and the IAAF World Championships in 2011 before switching his allegiance to Samoa in…

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June 21, 2017
Celebrating 7 Days to go with the $7 note

To celebrate 7 days until the start of the Oceania Championships, Fiji has released a $7 note. Ok, maybe not, but Fiji do have a $7 note. The government of Fiji issued two million $7 banknotes in commemoration the Pacific island gold medal victory in rugby sevens at last year’s Rio de Janiero Olympics. The…

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June 20, 2017
Oceania Athletics Area Championships

An Overview We return to the city and track where the Oceania Athletics Championships began – the National Stadium in Suva. The inaugural championships were held from the 11th to the 14th July, 1990. This is the first time in 27 years that the championships have been held in Suva. Since 1990 Oceania Athletics has…

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June 19, 2017
Oceania Athletics Area Championships

An Overview  We return to the city and track where the Oceania Athletics Championships began – the National Stadium in Suva. The inaugural championships were held from the 11th to the 14th July, 1990. This is the first time in 27 years that the championships have been held in Suva. Since 1990 Oceania Athletics has…

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June 15, 2017
Weekly Recap

Toecs 1 in Tuvalu Last month Tuvalu Athletics Association held a TOECS level 1 in Funafuti. The course ran from the 27th of April to the 4th of May. There were 13 people participating in the course 11 Males and 2 Females. The lecturer for this course was Filimoni Waqa. This course was Funded by…

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June 14, 2017
Lerkin hits form in Bangkok

Nineteen-year-old Ephraim Lerkin is approaching peak form with the Oceania Championships in Athletics just two weeks away. In Bangkok with four other athletes attending the Thailand Open Championships Lerkin opened his campaign in style on Monday with a 48.35 second clocking in the 400m and followed this up a few hours later with a 48.52…

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