Asenate Manoa

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Asenate "Nancy" Manoa (born May 23, 1992 ) is a Tuvaluan athlete and weightlifter who competed in the 2008 Olympic Games , the 2009 Athletics Championships and 2011 World Athletics Championships , as well as the 2012 Summer Olympics for Tuvalu. Manoa won the bronze medal in powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games in the women's weight category up to 72 kg.

Manoa was born on the island of Kioa in Fiji . The island was bought by settlers from Tuvalu between 1947 and 1983.

Competitions

Olympic Games Beijing 2008

Asenate Manoa became the first woman to appear for Tuvalu in the 2008 Olympic Games. She ran 100 meters in competition when she was only 16 years old. She completed her basic training on the runway at Funafuti International Airport , then trained in Suva , Fiji , in preparation for the games. She was supported by members of the Fiji running team and worked in the regional Olympic administration office, ONOC. She had never used starting blocks or trained on a synthetic track before arriving in Beijing. She is very small and weighed only 46 kg.

At the Olympic Games in 2008, she was eliminated from the prelims with her time of 14.05 s on 100 m, but set the national record for Tuvalu.

The Guardian wrote, "She's impossibly tiny for an international sprinter." In the national stadium in Beijing , she ran "in front of an audience that is 10 times the size of her country's population" (running in front of an audience 10 times the size of her country's population).

World Athletics Championships

At the World Athletics Championships in 2009 she ran 13.75 s over 100 m in the heats.

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships, it reached 13.92 s.

2012 Summer Olympics

She trained in Brisbane , Australia for the 2012 Summer Olympics and was able to increase her national record to 13.48 s.

Pacific Games 2015

For the 2015 Pacific Games, Manoa began to train weightlifting. She won the bronze medal in her class up to 72 kg female.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Manoa makes Olympic history for tiny Tuvalu." ABC Radio Australia , July 17, 2008.
  2. ^ A b c "Games for all as Britain shines." The Guardian , August 24, 2008.
  3. ^ "Tuvalu sprinter prepares for Olympic heats." ABC Radio Australia , August 9, 2008.
  4. ↑ London 2008 Women's 100 meters . In: IOC . 2008. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ 12th IAAF World Championships Results - 100 meters . In: IAAF . August 15, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ 13th IAAF World Championships Results - 100 meters . In: IAAF . August 27, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  7. ^ Nancy Manoa . Tapula International. 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  8. ↑ London 2012 Athletics, 100M Women . In: IOC . 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ Online editor: Tuvaluan lifters bring gold . In: PINA (FENUI NEWS / PACNEWS) . December 12, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ Powerlifting 72kg female . In: Pacific Games 2015 . July 9, 2015. Accessed July 11, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Manoa, Asenate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manoa, Nancy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tuvaluan sprinter and weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Kioa , Fiji