Oceania Cycling Confederation update
UCI President Attends Oceania Cycling Annual Assembly The International Cycling Union (UCI) President, David Lappartient, was a special guest at the Oceania Cycling…
Month: February 2020
VICTOR Oceania Badminton Championships
For the first time in Oceania’s history, the VICTOR Oceania Badminton Championships combined the individual, men’s and women’s team and para badminton championships,…
Regional Olympic qualification tournament training camp – South Korea
From November 24 to December 8, 2019, a squad of 18 athletes and six coaches from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands,…
Junior Kiwis closing the gap on Trans-Tasman rivals in Newcastle
The 2020 Youth Trans Tasman Test series against long-standing rivals, Australia, was a highly anticipated one, after the Kiwis fell at the final…
The birth of Fiji Fencing
The Oceania Fencing Confederation (OFC) hosted a public meeting on February 8 at Fiji Olympic House in Suva, to bring together those interested…
Para players leave the country for the first time
Viral sensation, Jerome Bunge, is one of four Para badminton players from Papua New Guinea who travelled abroad for the first time to…
Fijian Sprinter Heleina Young Receives Inaugural Scholarship
The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) first approached Griffith University and the Oceania Foundation in 2018, with the idea of a University Athletics Scholarship…
History-making Haecker wins Grand Prix gold
After becoming the first Australian judoka to ever medal on the International Judo Federation’s (IJF) Grand Slam circuit in 2018, Katharina Haecker has created history…
Gymnastics empowering women in Fiji
In 2019 the Oceania Gymnastics Union (OGU) – in partnership with Gymnastics Australia (GA) and the Gymnastics Federation of Fiji (GFF) – launched…
Competitors from five of Oceania’s sailing NSOs represented this summer
This summer of sailing saw international entrants come to Australia to compete in Olympic class sailing events, many of which also served as…