Asenate Manoa
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 May 1992 Kioa, Fiji |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Tuvalu |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | 100 metres |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 100m - 13.48s[1] |
| Updated on 9 December 2013. | |
Asenate Manoa (born 23 May 1992 in Kioa)[2] is a Tuvaluan track and field athlete who represented Tuvalu at the 2008 Summer Olympics, at the 2009 World Championships & 2011 World Championships and at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Manoa was born on Kioa island in Fiji; Kioa was purchased by settlers from Tuvalu, who migrated from Tuvalu between 1947 and 1983.
Beijing Olympics, 2008
Asenate "Nancy" Manoa competed for Tuvalu as its first female Olympian, competing in the Beijing Olympics as part of the women's 100 meters races.[3] Manoa was 16 years old when she first competed in Beijing. After initially training on the runway of Funafuti International Airport,[4] Manoa trained in Suva, Fiji in preparation for the games. She was mentored by members of Fiji’s track team, and worked at the offices of the regional Olympic administrator, ONOC. She had never used starting blocks or run on a synthetic track before arriving in Beijing.[5] Slight of figure, she weighs 101 lbs (46 kg).
She competed in the 100m sprint. Her time of 14.05 was the slowest in her heat,[6] but was a Tuvaluan national record.[4]
The Guardian described her as "impossibly tiny for an international sprinter", and noted that, in the Beijing National Stadium, she was "running in front of an audience 10 times the size of her country's population".[4]
London Olympics, 2012
She trained in Brisbane, Australian, in her preparation for the London Olympics.[7] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she took her national record to 13.48.[1]
References
- Biography on the official website of the Beijing Olympics
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "London 2012 Athletics, 100M Women". IOC. 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ Athlete Biography: MANOA Asenate, Retrieved on 24 March 2014
- ↑ "Manoa makes Olympic history for tiny Tuvalu", ABC Radio Australia, 17 July 2008, Retrieved on 7 August 2008
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Games for all as Britain shines", The Guardian, 24 August 2008
- ↑ "Tuvalu sprinter prepares for Olympic heats", ABC Radio Australia, 9 August 2008
- ↑ "London 2008 Women’s 100 metres". IOC. 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "Nancy Manoa". Tapula International. 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2013.