PR - Four Gold, three Silver and five Bronze medals was the haul from the Oceania Athletics Area Championships held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands recently according to Athletics Samoa Coach, Faleomavaega Vaovai Tupu.
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In addition to the medals, three new national records were set by some of the members of the team of five athletes.
Despite this success, Faleomavaega was not totally satisfied.
“There should have been more medals but Athletics Samoa is facing financial problems and we were unable to send the other ten athletes. Eight of them have the potential and are under 18,” he said.
However, Faleomavaega agreed there was much to look forward to for his athletes in the year ahead.
“We will continue training for the NZ/Australian 2014/2015 athletics season starting in November through to March/April 2015 plus the
New Zealand and Australian National Championships.”
Other targets for the athletes, he said, are the Oceania championships in Cairns in June 2015, the Pacific Games in Papua New
Guinea in July 2015 and the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa in September 2015.
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