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Born | 8 September 2001 [1] (age 20) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Wallis and Futuna | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shot put / Discus throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Louis Mauotekena Mailagi is a Wallisian athlete who has represented Wallis and Futuna at the Pacific Games.
Mailagi competed at the 2017 Oceania Athletics Championships and won a silver medal in the junior shot put event. [2] He participated in the 2018 French Athletics Championships where he won silver in shot put. [2]
Mailagi won gold at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia in the discus event. [3] [4] At the 2021 French Espoirs Championships he won silver in the shot put. [5] He competed at the 2022 French Athletics Championships and won bronze in the shot put. [6] [7]
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