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| Nationality | Nauru | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 February 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Shot put, discus | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal bests | Shot put: 16.07m (Saipan, 2023) NR Discus: 42.90m (Suva, 2024) NR | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jonathan-Deiwea Detageouwa (born 4 February 1994) is a track and field athlete from Nauru. He is the national record holder in shot put and discus throw, and a bronze medalist at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships. [1]
In 2022, he competed at the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay, Australia, finishing in sixth place in the shot put. [2] In the August of that year he was selected for the shot put at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he threw a personal best of 15.41m in the final to place twelfth. [3] [4]
In June 2023, he managed a 16.07m personal best to win gold in the shot put at the 2023 Oceania Athletics Cup in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. [5] [6]
He won the bronze medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji, with a 42.90 metres discus throw. [7]
He worked as a security guard in his native Nauru. [8]
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