Saimoni Tamani

Saimoni Tamani (born 14 November 1944) is a Fijian former athlete who specialized in running the 400 metres.
Career.
Tamani won a gold medal in the 1966 South Pacific Games in Noumea. He won three gold medals at the 1969 South Pacific Games in Port Moresby. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Tamani won the bronze medal in the 400 metres with a time of 45.82 seconds. It was Fiji's first medal in athletics at the Commonwealth Games since 1950. He was slated to compete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich but suffered a foot injury during the NCAA indoor track season. He was inducted into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
Tamani was also a track star at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tamani was a resident of [[Longview, Washington]] in 1992.
Tamani is the assistant varsity track coach in [[Kalama, Washington]].
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[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Fiji]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Fijian male sprinters]]
[[Category:Fijian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Fijian Latter Day Saints]]
[[Category:BYU Cougars men's track and field athletes]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:Fijian male middle-distance runners]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics]]
[[Category:People from Kalama, Washington]]