Pacific

Wisil and Tabakaucoro add to gold medal haul

20:19 pm on 25 June 2022

Toea Wisil of Papua New Guinea finished the Pacific Mini Games with four gold medals after claiming two titles on the final day of athletics action in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Wisil had already won the women's 100 metres and 4x100m relay titles, won the 200m crown before helping PNG to women's 4x400m relay gold.

Compatriots Leonie Beu came second in the 200 with 24.44 and Isila Apkup was third in 24.49.

Papua New Guinea sprinter Toea Wisil. Photo: AFP

All three then joined Edna Boafob to win the women's 4x400m crown in 3:52.76.

Boafob also had a busy and succesful day as she sealed heptathlon gold with 4,062 points.

Fiji's of Fiji completed a sprint hat-trick as he backed up his men's 100m and 4x100m titles by winning the 200m gold.

Tabakaucoro finished in a winning time of 21.11, beating two Papua New Guinea sprinters in Leeroy Kamau and Terence Talio.

The 29-year-old also grabbed a silver in the men's 4x400m relay as part of the Fijian team which clocked 3:24.44.

Papua New Guinea took the title in 3:15.35 while Samoa finished third in the final athletics event of the day.

In the other sprint events, Adrine Monagi of Papua New Guinea won the women's 100m hurdles, and Kolone Alefosio of Samoa triumphed in the men's 110m hurdles.

Monagi came out on top with 14.15, while Esther Wejieme of New Caledonia came second in 14.64 and Tayden Tomich of Australia registered 15.41 for third.

Alefosio clocked a winning time of 14.82 as Daniel Baul of Papua New Guinea came second with 15.44 and Samoan Jireh Westerlund finished third with 15.68.

Tennis came to a close as Colin Sinclair of the Northern Marianas Islands and Violet Apisah of PNG claimed the respective men's and women's singles titles.

Apisah upset top seed and team-mate Abigail Tere-Apisah with a thumping 6-1, 6-1 victory, while Sinclair swept aside Matthew Stubbings of Papua New Guinea 6-0, 6-1.

Banuve Tabakaucoro streaks to victory in the men's 100m Photo: Ken Camacho