Auki futsal association will again stage another series of futsal competitions starting next week in Auki, Malaita province. Speaking to the paper yesterday president of Auki futsal association Terry Oiaka said, the competition will kick off this weekend – Saturday 2nd of August. Mr Oiaka said, the competition will be organized in the open category…
Following on from his teammate’s success yesterday, Sunday 27th July saw Taretiita Tabaroua represent Kiribati at the Clyde Auditorium the home of weightlifting for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Taretiita competed in the Men’ss 77kg Group C category against 8 other athletes including one from the not so far away nation of Niue, Jack Feleti.…
Fijian swimmer Meli Malani broke the national men’s 50 metre breaststroke record during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Competing in the fourth heat, he clocked 29.87 seconds. Malani eclipsed the national record of 30.36s seconds which he set in May. He was happy to set a national record. His time was only 0.7s from…
Dika Toua’s Silver medal performance has earned her K50, 000 (US$20, 499) as the Government’s incentive for team PNG to the Commonwealth Games. Papua New Guineans around the globe are still heaping praise on the veteran weightlifter from Hanuabada village in Port Moresby. Dika snatched Silver medal in the women’s 53kg, lifting 82kg in the…
Former world number one golfer Vijay Singh is in contention to represent the nation at the 2016 Rio Olympics where the sport returns for the first time in more than a century. Golf was last played at the third Olympiad in Saint Louis, the US in 1904. The first Olympic Golf Rankings was released last…
Solomon Islands teenager races home one-and-a-half minutes behind second-last runner at Hampden Pak. He crossed the line in 16 minutes, 55 seconds, and was lapped three times. “I feel so tired, it was too cold for me,” said the 17-year-old. He was a teenager from the Solomon Islands whom just about no one inside Hampden…
Babalu on a two-year-self training program SHE was once hailed as the country’s golden girl in track and field. Dubbed Solomon Islands’ very own athletics princess after scooping gold at the 2009 Pacific Mini Games in Cook Islands as a 11-year-old, Betty Babalu now 16 is back stamping her feet on the roads doing what…
Two athletes competed in the Athletics events on the fourth day of competition in Glasgow, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The weather took an unfortunate turn from the Pacific-like temperatures leading up to yesterday’s event, which saw more typically Scottish wet and cold weather. Francis Manioru was first to compete in the morning, in the…
A weightlifter from Papua New Guinea has denied an allegation of sexual assult that led to him being detained by police in Glasgow but still allowed to compete in the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Toua Udia, 22, who lifted in the men’s 77kg category at the Clyde Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, reportedly spent the night…
New Zealand’s golden reign at the Commonwealth Games is over after they were toppled 17-12 by South Africa in the final yesterday. Three unanswered tries to the Blitzbokke through the game’s middle stages proved decisive against a New Zealand side who slumped to their knees when the full-time whistle sounded.faster South African side scored three…