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Track wars on
By HENRY MORABANG
PNG woman sprinter Toea Wisil clocked
11.94s to beat Fijian Makelesi Bulikiobo (11.95s) in the 100m in
Brisbane last Saturday and gave her a strong challenge in the
200m.
The Fijian, who totally dominated the women’s sprints in the 2003
SP Games but has been out of action for two years, made a strong
comeback last weekend when she ran 24.07s in the 200m at the
Athletics Australia Cup.
She ran the same time again yesterday, this time with the aid of a
following wind of 4.4m per second, to edge Wisil, who clocked
24.21s.
Fabian Niulai ran a very fast 200m (21.56s) and Andrew Doonar ran
under 22:00s for the first time.
However, all of the sprint times were wind assisted with the
reading being over the maximum 2.0mps allowed for record purposes.
Cecilia Kumalalamene showed that her national junior record run
last weekend was no fluke when she ran exactly the same time again
(2:13.56s) to win her race.
Sandy Katusele returned to competition with a good long jump of
6.94m.
Meanwhile, Mae Koime was in great form in Canberra where she was
competing in a very strong field in the Telstra A series 100m.
She qualified for the final by placing second in her heat with her
fastest time (11.70s).
However, the wind reading of 2.5mps meant that the time was not a
national record.
Koime went on to run 11.73s in the final (+1.7).
Mowen Boino and Wala Gime were also in Canberra, competing in the
A series meet, which is the first major competition on the
Australian calendar, featuring all the top athletes.
Boino was second in the 400m hurdles in 51.61s and Gime 7th in
53.64s.
The PNG squad compete again next Friday at the University of
Queensland where Wisil , Kumalalamene and Betty Burua are expected
to face Bulikiobo in the 400m.
 
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