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Team Fiji bags a gold and bronze medal after day three of Oceania Athletics Championships

Team Fiji bags a gold and bronze medal after day three of Oceania Athletics Championships

By Lena Reece
10/06/2022
[Image: Supplied]

Waisale Inoke and Fiji’s men’s 4x4 team have bagged Fiji’s medals so far at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay, Australia.

Team Fiji managed 1 gold and 1 bronze medal after the 3rd day of competition.

The bronze medal was awarded to Waisale Inoke in the Under 20 Men's Long Jump final where he jumped a new personal best of 7.06m.

The gold medal was awarded to Team Fiji in the Men's 4x100m relay clocking a time of 41.64s.

The team was made up of Waisale Inoke, Banuve Tabakaucoro, Nikola Raiqeu and Ratu Meli Romuakalou.

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Meanwhile, Tabakaucoro will today be running in the final of the Open Men's 200m event after finishing second in his heat with a time of 21.63s.

Torika Radocu also did well in her heat of the Under 18 Girls' 400m event and she will be taking part in the final later today.

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