Geua Vada Tau
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| Born | 3 May 1957 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn Bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Singles | ||||||||||||||
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Geau Vada-Tau (born 3 May 1957) is a Papua New Guinean Lawn Bowler. Tau stunned the bowling world in 1990 when she won the gold medal in the singles at the Auckland Commonwealth Games without losing a game.[1] She became a national heroine because this was the first Commonwealth Games Gold Medal ever won by Papua New Guinean. Tau plays for the Boroko Club in Port Moresby.
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
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- Living people
- 1957 births
- Sportspeople from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Papua New Guinea
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Papua New Guinean female bowls players
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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