Tongan swimmer ready for Commonwealth Games [1]
Monday, September 6, 2010 - 21:45. Updated on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 12:22.
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Amini has been swimming since age of seven years old and recently competed for Tonga in the 8th Oceania Championships in Samoa in late June. Amini won the 50m breaststroke and was placed third in the 50m Butterfly and third in the 100, Breaststroke.
Amini trains on a swimming scholarship out of Texas A&M University in College Station Texas. His recent winnings at the Oceania Games would place Amini 7th and 9th at the Commonwealth Games (100m Breaststroke and 50m Breaststroke) according to FINA World rankings.
Amini also represented Texas A&M at the 2009 and 2010 National Collegiate Championships in both Texas and Ohio.
He is the son of Sione and Julie Fonua of Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, and a 2008 graduate of Western Springs College in Auckland.
Amini will be accompanied to Delhi by the Secretary of the Tonga Swimming Association and the Vice President of the Tonga National Olympic Committee Michael O'Shannassy.