{"id":149,"date":"2015-03-24T03:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-03-24T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:07:15","slug":"fijian-banuve-wins-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Fijian Banuve wins in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png\" alt=\"banavu\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150\" \/><\/a>SPRINTER Banuve Tabakaucoro won the 100 metres final at the Melbourne Classic World Challenge meet.<\/p>\n<p>The Bau man ran in 10.46 seconds while Australia&#8217;s Andrew McCabe came in second with a time of 10.61 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This is encouraging result for the fastest man in the Pacific as he gears up to defend his title at the Pacific Games in July in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The time is also the fastest Tabakaucoro has run this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, he did not have enough speed in the 200m to earn a medal placing.<\/p>\n<p>In the 200m he clocked a time of 21.4 seconds to finish 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Tabakaucoro competes now in the Australian Championship next week.<\/p>\n<p>Tabakaucoro is the reigning champion in the 100 metres in the Pacific.<br \/>\nSource: FT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINTER Banuve Tabakaucoro won the 100 metres final at the Melbourne Classic World Challenge meet&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[9,3],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/banavu.png",274,184,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}