{"id":1160,"date":"2015-11-26T01:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:06:24","slug":"yanuyanudrua-to-represent-fiji-at-australia-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Yanuyanudrua to represent Fiji at Australia event."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Foxsportsplus\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BODY BUILDER Jekesoni Yanuyanudrua will be representing Fiji in the Joe Weider&#8217;s Amateur Olympia competition in Gold Coast, Australia in the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The other two body builders Ms Fiji Elizabeth Maki and Mr Fiji Inoke Ligairi will not be able to travel because of work commitments.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by the Bodybuilding and Fitness Fiji president John Lee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jekesoni Yanuyanudrua is the athlete we hope to send to Australia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for our choice is that Yanuyanudrua is very young (20yrs old)and has the potential to place at this event and the international exposure will help develop a better athlete out of him.<\/p>\n<p>Yanuyanudrua was also an athlete to the 2015 PNG Pacific Games and the 2013 South Pacific Bodybuilding Championship where he placed 1st in the junior category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee was hoping Yanuyanudrua would get his visa on time for the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from the hope of receiving Yanuyanudrua&#8217;s Australian visa on time to travel, our main challenge is obtaining financial support to ensure he is better prepared for this international platform,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A placing at this international platform mean&#8217;s Yanuyanudrua becomes a professional body builder. He obtains sponsorship endorsements to promote and play the sport of his passion for a living.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is expected to promote the sport among his peers, in the country of his origin and to be a great ambassador of the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: Fiji Times\/ Fox Sports Plus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BODY BUILDER Jekesoni Yanuyanudrua will be representing Fiji in the Joe Weider&#8217;s Amateur Olympia competition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[9,30,3,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Foxsportsplus.jpg",300,169,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}