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This is the competition results wrap from TOKYO 2020 for Thursday 05 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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Samoa’s Rudolf Williams and Tuva’a Clifton successfully completed Final B of the men’s kayak double 1000m Thursday morning earning the rank of the 16th best double team in the world. The duo completed the race in 3:56.171s to be placed 8th in the race but ranked 16th after the gold medal race was won by Australian doubles team Thomas Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen in a time of 3:15.280. Samoa’s final event at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be Rudolf Williams Men’s Canoe Single 1000m in Heat 2 at 9.52am JST Friday morning.
22-year old Rckaela Aquino is now ranked 15th top female wrestler in the 53kg weight category after losing to Mongolia’s Bolortuya Bat Ochir by four points in match that lasted just over two minutes in the first round. The Mongolian wrester secured a victory by fall (VFA) just over 2 minutes from the start of the fight. Aquino was Guam's first-ever female to qualify for an Olympics on merit. She won a silver medal at the 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tunisia in April, wrestling at 53 kilograms. The top two wrestlers in each division automatically qualified for Tokyo. Aquino defeated Elisa Rasoanantenaina from Madagascar to advance to the semi-finals, then won by superior decision over Siwar Louati of Tunisia. That guaranteed her a silver medal and a spot on Team Guam for the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. Aquino and her sister, Mia-Lahnee Aquino, have been standout wrestlers for Guam for almost a decade and have represented the island in several regional and world tournaments. Rckaela Aquino is an IOC scholarship recipient through the IOC athletes support group, which underwrites training programs and supports them through Olympic qualifiers.
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About ONOC
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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