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Full name | Caroline Pickering Puamau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1 May 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caroline Pickering Puamau (born 1 May 1980) [1] is a 2-time Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Fiji. She swam at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics; [2] as well as at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. [3]
She also competed in the 2003 South Pacific Games in Suva, winning two gold medals, three silver and one bronze, [4] and in the 2007 South Pacific Games in Apia, where she won two gold medals, three silver and two bronze. [5] She lit the cauldron during the opening ceremony at the 2003 Games. [6]
Puamau declined to take part in the qualifiers for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, stating: "Right now I'm into coaching." [7]
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