A young golfer, Salote Alexis Vakasiuola (16) has won Tonga’s first gold medal at the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands on 25 November, where she demonstrated remarkable determination in the women’s golfing event, finishing with a 10 point margin ahead of her nearest rival.
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Monday 27 November 2023
Honiara, Solomon Islands
Friday 22 March 2019
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The current Oceania Champion archer, Arne Jensen, has broken Tonga’s national archery record twice within a month recently, while training for the upcoming Pacific Games.
Tuesday 27 November 2018
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan athletes from nine sporting disciplines will begin training in China next month as part of a new aid project called the "China Aid Project on Sports Technical Assistance to Tonga-2018”. The training initiative for about 100 athletes and coaches occurs at a crucial point – just eight months before the 2019 Pacific Games are scheduled to begin in Samoa on 7 July, 2019.
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Wednesday 11 July 2018
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s Arne Jensen was among the leaders at the start of a World Archery Oceania Championships on July 10 in New Caledonia.
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Wednesday 10 August 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's recurve archer, Karoline Lusitania Tatafu, was matched against #2 ranked Korean archer Hyejin Chang, this morning in the Women's Individual 1 /32 Eliminations at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Lusi shot nine arrows scoring 61 to Chang's 82, with Chang reaching the required six match points after three sets to end the match.
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Tuesday 9 August 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s recurve archer Hans Arne Jensen (18) gave a creditable performance this morning (Tonga time) when he was matched against a top-ranked archer, Sjef Van Den Berg (21) of the Netherlands in the Men’s Individual 70m archery contest at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Jensen challenged Van Den Berg in five rounds of close contest with 129 match points to Van den Berg’s 133.
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Sunday 7 August 2016
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Two Tongan Olympic archers, competing as individuals, received their rankings in the ranking rounds on Friday and Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hans Arne Jensen was ranked 61 out of 64 archers and Karoline Lusitania Tatafu was ranked 63 out of 64 archers. This means they will be matched against top ranked Olympic archers in the Olympic Archery 1/ 32 elimination rounds on August 8-9 (Tuesday and Wednesday, Tonga time).
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Thursday 4 August 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
"I aim to perform up to my best, I can't control my opponent but I can control how I perform and hopefully that’s enough to get through a few matches,” said Arne Jensen (18) who is representing Tonga at the Rio Olympics in archery.
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Monday 1 August 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan Olympian Karoline Lusitania Tatafu (18) aims to perform to the best of her ability and not let the atmosphere overwhelm her at the Rio Olympic that opens in four days time. Lusi hopes to achieve a personal best score and get through the first elimination round. Getting to the Olympics is no easy task and being self-funded meant Lusi's family has supported her and continues to support her providing 80% of costs so she can represent Tonga. She gave up her studies to train.
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Thursday 21 July 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Seven athletes will represent Tonga at the Rio Olympic Games, starting on 5 August, competing in the fields of Archery, Track, Swimming and Taekwondo.
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Tuesday 12 April 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 2016 Oceania Archery Championships (11-15 April) was set in motion yesterday at Pangai Lahi on the Nuku’alofa waterfront by Prince Ata, after he landed the first arrow on target.
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Friday 23 January 2015
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two young Tongan archers Lualala Tatafu (13) and Lusitania Tatafu (16) have won Gold and Silver medals at the 72nd Archery New Zealand National Championships 2015, held earlier this month in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Friday 7 February 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Archers, Lusitania Tatafu and Arne Jensen, are Tonga's hope for qualified athletes to represent the country at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), in Nanjing, China in August.
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Wednesday 11 August 2004
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Athens, Greece
The Olympic countdown is on for Tongan archer Sifa Taumoepeau in Athens who faces a world ranking competition on Thursday 12 August. He will then shoot on Monday in his first Olympic match play, a knock out competition.
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Friday 30 July 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga is sending an 18-members strong team, five of them competitors, to the 28th Olympic Games to be held in Athens, Greece, from August 13-29, in four sporting events, Archery, Athletics, Boxing and Judo.
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Tuesday 23 March 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Archer, Siosifa Moala Taumoepeau is the first Tongan athlete to qualify to participate in the Athens Olympic in August.
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