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Historical News
Salitia Pipit’s Supreme Sporting Record- REVISED VERSION
Salitia Pipit, from Ratavul Village in East New Britain, was born on 6th June 1951 in Rabaul. At primary school, the large well-organised Athletics competitions were not available, being only for those from high schools and colleges. Salitia and all her class mates kept fit and healthy playing team sports.
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Salome Dell’s Winning Streak
Salome, who hails from the Eastern Highlands Province has been our most successful middle-distance athlete ever.
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Sandy Katusele – our golden jumper
Sandy Katusele was born in Port Moresby in 1980, but mostly raised in Lae. He started as a soccer player in 1988 in community school. Softball was also a strong attraction given his East New Britain connections through his mother, and Basketball came through his father’s Morobe side if the family.
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Tau John Tokwepota – King of the Roads
Tauvau John Tokwepota was born on 25th June 1956 in Kavataria Village, Losuia, Kiriwina Island. He did his schooling in the Trobriand Islands and the provincial capital of Alotau, before going to Goroka Tech and then UNITECH in Lae, where he studied surveying. From UNITECH he spent three months in Bendigo in Victoria where he studied Photogrammetry.
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WAVALA KALI – Athletics Profile
Wavala started his successful career at a very early age. In 1970 he was National Sub Junior (Under 17 years) Record Holder with a time of 50.8 seconds.
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JOHN KOKINAI’s RECORD BREAKING CAREER IN DISTANCE RUNNING
John Kokinai’s brief Athletics’ career was packed full of highlights and special performances that far surpass any of today’s distance runners in PNG.
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Baobo Duaba-Neuendorf - Athletics Profile
Born in Port Moresby on 31st August 1972, Baobo Duaba-Neuendorf did most of his primary and secondary schooling in the Awaba/Balimo, Middle Fly District, of Western Province.This is in the Gogodala heartland.At school, Baobo knew he was good at sport, but he did not take much part in Athletics other than the usual inter-house carnivals. On graduating from Grade Ten he went to join the rest of the
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Ivan Wakit’s Athletics Profile- REVISED (19th April 2015)
Another of the many athletes from the ENBP island of Matupit, Ivan Wakit started his Athletics’ career as a high jumper. In the 1992 PNG National Championships in Lae, he finished in sixth position with a height of 1.70m.
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TUMAT SOGOLIK- BOXING – Olympics, Oceania Championships, Commonwealth Games & South Pacific Games
While he had a wonderful career in local PNG fights, Oceania Championships in Tahiti (1974), the South Pacific Games in Guam (1975) and the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, it was his participation in the 1978 Commonwealth Games that has defined his career, and has kept him as a household-name in PNG.
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JACKSON & DAVID SEETO - WEIGHTLIFTING
Two of the leading lights in the history of PNG Weightlifting were the Rabaul brothers, Jackson and David Seeto. Their family was a well-established one with the grand parents arriving from China in 1900, during the German colonial period.
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Career of Iammo Gapi Launa
Iammo Gapi Launa was born in September 1959 at Kalo in Central Province.
In 1973, at Kwikila High School Iammo began her long involvement with Athletics, competing in inter-house and inter-schools’ competition. As a member of the Southern Region High School Team she travelled to competitions in Lae, Madang, Daru and Goroka.
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Peiwa Waea’s Athletics Profile
Peiwa Waea won his first National Championship in 1967 – it was in the High Jump, and his clearance at 1.97m was the National Record for 30 years until it was broken in 1998 by Hapo Maliaki (1.98m).
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Kila Raula’s Athletics Profile
Kila Raula was born at Ela Beach Hospital, Port Moresby, to a family of fishermen from Hula Village, Central Province. Early schooling was done back in the village at the London Missionary Society School at Raukele.
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KITO KAIDA-WAINETTI- First Women’s Gold in Athletics
In the 1966 South Pacific Games in Noumea, Naomi Polum became PNG’s first winner of an individual Athletics medal when she came third in the 100m Final.
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