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2018 Micronesian Games
The 9th Micronesian Games were held from July 15 to July 27, 2018, in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Participating nations Ordinarily, there are 10 participants at the games. However, Nauru were unable to compete in this edition due to travel costs. As such, the participants at the games were: the four constituent states of the Federated States of Micronesia ( Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap), three sovereign countries (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau) and two insular areas of the United States (Northern Mariana Islands, Guam) all located within the Micronesia region. Sports Athletes competed in 13 different sports at the games: athletics, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, the "Micronesian all-around", open water swimming, soccer, spearfishing, va'a, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling. Previously at the 2014 games 14 sports were contested. However, this edition of the games saw the removal of softball and tennis and the inclusion of beach volleyba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Micronesian Games
The 8th Micronesian Games were held from July 20 to July 30, 2014, in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The Games began with an opening ceremony on the track and field grounds. They included "traditional war dances", and the unfurling of the Games flag in the air as it was delivered by parachute. At the closing of the Games, Guam had topped the medal table with eighty-one medals, of which forty-two were gold. Participating countries All Micronesian nations, states and territories participated in the Games. The host country was represented by four teams, one for each of its federated states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap. The other participants included four independent countries (Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau) and two unincorporated organised territories of the United States: the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. The 2014 Games were the second hosted by the FSM, the 2002 Games having also taken place in Pohnpei State. The scheduling of the Games co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Harris
Jonah Harris (born 16 January 1999) is a Nauruan track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. Harris most notably represented Nauru at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia and was the first ever athlete representing Nauru at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. He currently holds the national records for Nauru in the 60 metres indoor event, the 100 metres and the 200 metres and has one more national record still awaiting ratification from the Nauru Athletics Association (NAA). 2016–17 Prior to the 2017 Pacific Mini Games, the only competitions Harris had experience with was school meets in Queensland and only achieving a personal best time of 11.94 seconds. The 2017 Pacific Mini Games would act as his first international competition in which he would compete in the 100 metres event. The event featured the likes of Nazmie-Lee Marai from Papua New Guinea and Kelvin Masoe from Samoa. Harris was drafted in race three with Masoe during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osisang Chilton
Osisang Dibech Chilton (born 23 February 1996) is a Palauan swimmer. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the women's 50 m freestyle. Career She competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. In 2019, she represented Palau at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ... and women's 100 metre backstroke events. In both events she did not advance to compete in the semi-finals. References External links * 1996 births Living people Palauan female swimmers Place of birth missing (living people) Female backstroke swimmers Palauan female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Abrams (athlete)
Rachel Abrams (born 13 July 1995) is a sprinter from the Northern Mariana Islands. She first competed internationally in the 60 metres at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul where set a personal best time of 8.31 seconds. Four months later she competed in the 100 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona. Racing three days before her 17th birthday, Abrams set a new personal best of 13.05 seconds. In 2014, she raced in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships when shaved 0.01 seconds off her personal best and in July she won five medals at the Micronesian Games The Micronesian Games (or Micro Games, MicroGames) are a quadrennial international multi-sport event within the Micronesian region. The Games were first held in 1969 in Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands). The 2010 Micronesian Games were initially d ... in Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia. She won the 200 metre event in new Games record time of 26.29 sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarinae Sapong
Zarinae Sapong (born 27 January 1998) is a sprinter from the Northern Mariana Islands. She represented her country at three outdoor and two indoor World Championships. Sapong competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. She ran a sub 13-second personal best but did not progress to the next round. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 12.98 (+0.1 m/s, Eugene 2022) *200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ... – 27.40 (-0.7 m/s, Apia 2019) Indoor * 60 metres – 8.33 (Glasgow 2024) References 1998 births Living people Northern Mariana Islands female sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for the Northern Mariana Islands 21st-century American women {{oceania-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regine Tugade
Regine Tugade-Watson (born January 28, 1998) is a Guamanian sprint (running), sprinter. She competed in the 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, women's 100 metres event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, as well as the girl's 200 m event at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics, 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia. She competed in the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres, women's 100 m preliminary round of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Tugade finished third place in her heat but did not progress further. She also competed in her second 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, World Championships in 2017, competing in the 200 m. She holds seven Guamanian national records in athletics. In July 2021 she was a flag bearer in the 2020 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations, Parade of Nations at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Skilang Temengil
Florian Skilang Temengil (born November 4, 1986) is a Palauan wrestler at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. Skilang competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China in the freestyle wrestling. He lost his bout to Ottó Aubéli of Hungary 0-6, 1-7. However, he managed to score the first ever point for Palauan Olympic wrestlers, since his countryman John Tarkong Jr. had failed to score any points four years earlier, as would his countryman Elgin Loren Elwais in the Greco-Roman -55 kg category.. He competed for Palau at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 125 kg division. He was defeated by Daniel Ligeti of Hungary in the first round. He was the flag bearer for Palau during the Parade of Nations The Olympic Games ceremonies of the Ancient Olympic Games were an integral part of these Games; the modern Olympic games have opening, closing, and medal ceremonies. Some of the elements of the modern ceremonies date back to the Ancient Games from . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lataisi Mwea
Lataisi Mwea (born 26 July 2000) is an I-Kiribati athlete who competes in sprinting events. From 2019, Mwea has been based at the OAA High Performance Training Centre in Gold Coast when he was sent by his Kiribati Athletics Association for a high jump training scholarship. He broke the national record for high jump when he jumped 2.00 m clear in October 2019. After a change of coach to Andrew Lulham, Lataisi indicated also an interest in undertaking sprint training in addition to his jumps training and linked with Leanne Hines-Smith for track sessions. From March 2020, he was stranded in Australia since the closure of borders of his own country and has to stay one year more in Gold Coast. In January 2021 Mwea set a new national record as he ran 22.61 for the 200 metres. Earlier in the day he ran a 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biira Burennaira
Biira is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Beatrice Biira, Ugandan human rights activist, subject of '' Beatrice's Goat'' * Joy Doreen Biira (born 1986), Ugandan journalist and communications consultant {{surname Surnames of Ugandan origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimwaua Makin
Kimwaua Makin (born 8 August 1997) is a male Kiribati sprinter. He competed in the Men's 100 metres event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing seventh in his heat. He ran his personal best of 11.77 at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Makin won the bronze medal at the 2018 Micronesian Games The 9th Micronesian Games were held from July 15 to July 27, 2018, in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Participating nations Ordinarily, there are 10 participants at the games. However, Nauru were unable to compete in this edition due to tra ..., setting the Kiribati record in the 4 × 100 m relay in the process running on a team with Tirioro Willie. See also * Kiribati at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics References * 1997 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) I-Kiribati male sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Kiribati Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Ililau
Adrian Justin Jimena Ililau (born 21 April 2000) is a Palauan sprinter. He ran a personal best time of 11.43 in the 100 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but did not advance beyond the preliminary heats. He represented Palau in basketball at the 2017 FIBA Under-17 Oceania Championship held in Guam. He received an associates degree in environmental marine sciences at Palau Community College Palau Community College is a public community college in the Republic of Palau. It is the only higher education institution in the nation. It is an independent institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and offers a ..., and his field studies focused on the effects of heat stress on corals. In 2022, Ililau was selected to serve as an international exchange cadet at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and he is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree there. References External links * 2000 births Living people Athletes (track and field) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |