Geua Vada Tau
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Born | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | 3 May 1957|||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn Bowls | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | Singles | |||||||||||||
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Updated on 23 August 2017. |
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[]
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1957 births
- People 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
- Papua New Guinean sportspeople stubs
- Bowls biography stubs