ONE time sprint queen, Vaciseva Tavaga was inducted into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame for 2015 last Saturday.
Tavaga is one of Fiji’s and the South Pacific’s most outstanding athletes with sporting achievements spanning more than 13 years.
Tavaga ruled the tracks until 1997 when Makelesi Bulikiobo came onto the scene and carried forward the work that Tavaga had started.
Tavaga’s accomplishments
include:
1989 – South Pacific Mini Games: Bronze 100m, Silver 200m
1990 – Oceania Athletics Championships: 3 Bronze 100m, 4x100m, 4x400m
1991 – IAAF World Championships, Tokyo: represented Fiji in the 200m and 400m
1991 – South Pacific Games: Gold 200m, Silver 400m
1992 – Olympic Games, Barcelona 100m and 200m
1993 – South Pacific Mini Games: Gold 100m and 200m
1994 – Oceania Athletics Championships: Gold 100m, 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m Relays
1995 – South Pacific Games: Gold 100m, 200m, Silver 400m
1997 – South Pacific Mini Games: Silver 100m, Bronze 200m
2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester: 100m, 4x100m Relay
Meanwhile the Fiji Olympic Order too was awarded to the late John Anthony Moore, fondly know as Tony Moore, for his contributions to sport in Fiji.
The late Vijendra Pal Sharma fondly known as VP Sharma was also awarded the Olympic Order. Sharma became the first Fiji person to ever officiate at an Olympic Games. He represented Fiji at various IWF, OWF and CWF tournaments at his own cost and also paid most of Fiji’s affiliation fees to these organisations, at his own personal cost, and all for the love of the sport of weightlifting.
