Matai breaks high jump record of 22 years

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Rusiate Matai of Balata College clears the bar in the senior boys high jump finals during the 2024 Coca-Cola Games athletics competition at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva on Saturday, 04 May, 2024. He later won gold in the event. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU

Fiji Finals gold medallist and jumper Rusiate Matai has broken the national high jump record.

The Nadarivatu, Ra lad jumped a height of 2.10 metres at the Bearcat Invitational Competition in the United States to break the former national record of 2.09m set by Antonio Rahiman in 2003.

Matai is studying in the United States under scholarship at the Neosho County Community College in the state of Kansas.