Athletics Fiji 4x100m relay wins gold, Australia B disqualified

Yeshnil Karan and Banuve Tabakaucoro will be participating at the Pacific Mini Games in Saipan on June 17-25.

After the third day of competition, FMF Athletics Team Fiji has managed one gold and one bronze medal in the Oceania Championship in McKay, North Queensland in Australia.

The bronze medal was won by Waisale Inoke in the Under-20 men’s long jump final where he jumped a new personal best of 7.06m. Just 1 centimetre short of New Zealand’s Angus Lyver.

Australia’s Blake Shaw took the gold with a winning jump of 7.29m.

The gold medal was awarded to

Team Fiji in the Men’s 4x100m relay final after Australia Team B was disqualified.

The team was made up of Waisale Inoke, Banuve Tabakaucoro, Nikola Raiqeu and Meli Romuakalou, as they ran a time of 41.64s.

Other results Open Men’s 400m

■ Nikola Raiqeu- 6th in Heat 2 with a new season’s best and personal best of 49.62s

■Me●i Romuakalou- 6th in Heat 1 with a new season’s best of 50.50s ■Kame●i Sauduadua- 8th in Heat 2 with a new season’s best of 50.69s

U18 Girls’ 400m

■Torika Radovu- 5th in Heat 1 in a time 62.56s and qualified for the final.

Open Men’s 100m

■Ba■uve Tabakaucoro- 10.68s in the heats to qualify for the final where he ran a season’s best of 10.56s finishing 8th.

■Fiji based- Taiwaneese sprinter Bryce Chou finished 6th in his heat with a time of 11.22s

Open Men’s 1500m

■Yesh■i● Karan ran 4mins 00.07s to finish 4th in the final of the Men’s 1500m behind New Zealand’s Mathew Taylor.

Open Men’s 200m

■Ba■uve Tabakaucoro- finished 2nd in Heat 1 with a time of 21.63s to qualify him for the finals.

■Me●i Romuakalou- 4th in Heat 2 with a time of 22.82s

■Niko●a Raiqeu - 4th in Heat 3 with a time of 22.56s. - Athletics Fiji