Etimoni Timuani

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Etimoni Timuani
Reme Timuani.jpg
Etimoni Timuani (2011)
Personnel
birthday August 14 or October 14, 1991
place of birth Funafuti ,  Tuvalu
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
FC Tofaga
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2011 FC Tofaga
2011 Lakena United
2012 FC Tofaga
2012 FC Tofaga B
2014 FC Manu Laeva
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
~ 2011 ~ Tuvalu at least 6 (0)
~ 2011 ~ Tuvalu futsal at least 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 2, 2016

2 As of August 2, 2016

Etimoni "Reme" Timuani (born August 14 or October 14, 1991 in Funafuti ) is a Tuvaluan athlete who represents his home country as a football and futsal player in the position of a defender or as a sprinter .

Career

Etimoni Timuan was born either on August 14 or October 14, 1991 on the Funafuti Atoll and was already active in the offspring of the Tuvaluan football club FC Tofaga , where he spent much of his later career. Around 2008 he made the leap into the men's team and was subsequently active for the first division until 2011. In May 2011 he represented his home country at the Futsal Oceania Championship in the Fijian capital Suva , where he was used in all four of his team's games, but himself remained goalless. With the team, he was clearly the last in Group B with 1:33 goals from three games from the current tournament. In the game for 7th place, the team lost to the clear loser of Group A, Kiribati (6:52 goals), just 2: 3.

In the same year Timuani made his debut in the national soccer team Tuvalus when he participated with Tuvalu in the preparation for the soccer tournament of the Pacific Games 2011 in New Caledonia . In the preparatory game against Samoa on August 22nd, he played his first international match. At the Pacific Games he was used in the first game on August 27 against American Samoa and celebrated the highest victory in the history of the national team with a 4-0 win. The following four internationals were less successful, but the team pulled out a 1-1 draw in the last group game against Guam and the group finished in fourth of six places in the table and thus eliminated from the current tournament. Timuani played in all five Tuvalus group games and again remained goalless. Nothing is known about further national team assignments, although Timuani was still active on a club basis. His further career brought him to league competitor Lakena United in 2011 and from this again immediately to FC Tofaga in 2012. There he was initially active in the A-team, but also played a few games in the B-team, whose most dangerous player he was in the NBT Cup for B-teams with eight goals. After playing for FC Manu Laeva , another league competitor, in 2014 , he devoted himself increasingly to athletics .

He first appeared publicly as a track and field athlete in 2015 when he represented his home country at the 2015 Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea as a sprinter in the 100-meter run . In the preliminary round at Sir John Guise Stadium on July 13, 2015, he was the only sprinter in the 29-man starting field who was disqualified due to a jump start . In the same year he took part in the men's 100-meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing , where he finished 23rd out of 27 places in the preliminary round with a time of 11.72 seconds and achieved a personal best. Since only the best twelve athletes of this round qualified for the next round, Etimoni Timuani dropped out of the current competition early. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Timuani was the only athlete to represent his home country and thus also appeared as Tuvalu's flag bearer at this major event. This makes Tuvalu the only one of 206 nations that had only one athlete. In the athletics competitions of the Olympic Games , he started in his parade discipline over 100 meters and was eliminated in the heats with 11.81 seconds as a total of 21st.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Etimoni Timuani on the official website of the Pacific Games 2015 (English), accessed on August 2, 2016
  2. ↑ Preliminary decision 100-meter run men (Pacific Games 2015) (English), accessed on August 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Preliminary decision 100-meter run men (World Athletics Championships 2015) (Chinese / English), accessed on August 2, 2016
  4. ↑ The loneliest Olympic star comes from here , accessed on August 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Timuani, Etimoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timuani, Reme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tuvaluan soccer player, futsal player and sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1991 or October 14, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Funafuti , Tuvalu