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Elite athletes to take part in 2008 Grand Prix
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Posted on Jun 14 2008
Two days before the start of the 2008 Oceania Championships, the CNMI will play host to the 2008 Oceania Grand Prix.
According to the Oceania Athletics Association website, the Oceania Grand Prix squad of 41 athletes, representing 12 member federations of Oceania Athletics, will go up against athletes from all of the 21 federations who will this year be competing at the Championships.
Athletes to look out for at the Grand Prix include Tonga’s Ana Po’uhila who has been in tremendous form in the shot put over the past months.
Po’uhila now has a number of “B” qualifying standards going into the Grand Prix Series and Oceania Championships.
And after a sensational 2006 Pacific Games, Samoa’s Aunese Curreen will be hoping to keep Samoa on the winner’s podium in the middle distance events.
Papua New Guinea star sprinter Mae Koime will also hope to be back to her best on Saipan after an injury-related hiatus, but she’ll be pushed all of the way by her teammate Toea Wisil.
The rest of the 2008 Grand Prix Team are Cook Islands’ Harmon Harmon, Samantha Lockington, and Teriappi Tapok, Fiji’s Isoa Me, Mereula Saloti, Makelesi Tumalevu, Eugene Volmer, Iowane Dovumatua, Niko Verakauta, and Isireli Naikelkelivesi, Federated States of Micronesia’s Jack Howard, Guam’s Genie Gierardo, Kiribati’s Rabangaki Nawai and Buraieta Yeeting, New Caledonia’s Frederic Erin and Sigato David Kilama, Nauru’s J.J. Capelle, Rosa-Mystique Jone, and A-One Tannang, Papua New Guinea’s Betty Burua, Wala Gime, Sharon Henry, Sandy Katusele, Mong Tavol, Salome Dell, and Kevin Kaptamana, Tahiti’s Teiva Izal, Tupuhoe Tahi, Terootae Urarii, and Toriki Urarii, Solomon Islands’ Jack Iroga, Francis Maniouru, William Taloga, and Chris Walasi, and Vanuatu’s David Benjamin, Moses Kamut, and Arnold Sorina.
The 2008 Oceania Grand Prix will be held on June 21 and 23, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the Oleai Track and Field Facility inside the Oleai Sports Complex.
