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This is the competition results wrap from TOKYO 2020 for Friday 06 August 2021.
Almost 800 athletes from Oceania are in Tokyo for the XXXII Olympiad. These include 100 athletes from 15 Pacific island countries and the balance from Australia and New Zealand. While we amplify our Pacific islands teams, please follow the Australian Olympic Team and the New Zealand Team for updates too.
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Final event for three time Samoan Olympian, Rudolf Williams was the Men’s canoe single 1000m on Friday morning. Williams was placed 7th in heat 2 of the race and progressed into the semi-final later in the morning. Unfortunately, a torn hamstring meant Williams couldn’t compete in his quarter-final race. The official result said William ‘did not start’ in the first quarter-final race. Williams race brings Samoa’s canoe and kayak teams Olympic campaign to a close.
The men’s single 1000m semi-final and final will be held at the Sea Forest Waterway on Saturday 07 August 2021. Oceania has been dominant in the canoe sprint events – with New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington in target for four golds in women’s canoe sprints. Carrington won her fifth overall Olympic gold medal on Thursday, becoming the most decorated New Zealand Olympian of all time. She will return to the Sea Forest Waterway course one more time on Saturday as she seeks to become the first paddler to win a medal in four events at a single Olympic Games.
Australia duo Thomas Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen took gold in the Men’s kayak double 1000m. Cook Islands and Samoa on the other hand were the only Pacific countries with athletes competing in the canoe sprints at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Established in 1981, the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) is one of five Continental Associations. It looks after the interests of 17 member nations in the Oceania Region, including Australia and New Zealand as well as seven associate members.
ONOC has an office in Guam where Secretary General Mr. Ricardo Blas is based and the Secretariat in Suva, Fiji, where the Office of the President Dr Robin Mitchell is located.
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