Girls Winner Today
The girls’ title for the Suva Zone 2 will be decided today.
This comes after a complaint was lodged last night regarding the total medal tally for the girls division.
The medal tally announced after the games yesterday was:
St Joseph Secondary School:
21 gold, 18 - silver and 10 - bronze.
Suva Grammar School:
16 – gold, 21 - silver and 9 - bronzeLomary Secondary School:
6 - gold, 4 - silver and 3 - bronze.
Suva Zone 2 President, Savenaca Muamua confirmed that a decision will be made today.
He said an in-house meeting will take place with all the girls’ schools in the Zone 2 competition present. He said there would be a recount of medals for the final tally.
Muamua did not elaborate further.
Meanwhile, Marist Brothers High School made a clean sweep in the boys division bagging 38 gold, 14 silver and 15 bronze.
Suva Grammar took home 7 gold, 25 silver and 12 bronze.
Broken records
Five games records were broken yesterday with three new records set by St Joseph Secondary School.
In the 100 meters junior grade, Heleina Young beat the previous record of 12.41seconds. She clocked in 12.18seconds.
In the 4×100 junior girls relay, St Joseph stopped the clock at 51.60sesonds breaking the previous record of 51.78seconds.
Tera Narayan broke the intermediate girls high jump record set in 1994. The new record now stands at 1.47 metres from 1.44 metres.
Adi Mereseini Waqatoki of Suva Grammar School set a new record of 4.84metres in sub junior girls long jump event. She broke a 21 year old record of 4.37 metres set in 1995.
The Suva Grammar girls also smashed the junior girls 4×400 metres record 4.21.61seconds.
In the boys division, Josefa Tabakaucoro broke the 400metres junior boys record with a run of 50.39seconds. The previous record of 52.1seconds was set by Eroni Cagi of Suva Grammar School.
Patrick Ledua of Vashist Muni College set a new record of 6.01metres in the long jump.
Athletics Fiji President, Albert Miller said even though records were broken, the effects of Tropical Cyclone Winston had a big impact in the way the athletes performed.
“The breaking of records is a good sign but from what I have seen today most athletes were not as sharp as they were so it’s going to be an interesting Coke games.”
Miller added: “All the athletes were not as fit as they were last year with the same time and looking at the previous weeks I can understand why. For the athletes of zone 2 qualifying, they got three more weeks to make up for fitness.”
Edited by Rosi Doviverata
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