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| Full name | Wesley Tikiariki Roberts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 June 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Cook Islands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wests Illawarra Aquatic [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wesley Roberts (born 24 June 1997) is a Cook Islands swimmer who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and holds several Cook Islands national records in swimming.
Roberts is from Atiu, and was educated at the University of Wollongong in Australia. [2]
Roberts won the gold medal in the men's 1500 and 400 metres long course freestyle event at the 2016 Oceania Swimming Championships. [3] [4] Roberts also won gold, 2 silver and a bronze in the 200 Freestyle, 400 Freestyle, 1500 Freestyle and the 100 Freestyle respectively at the 2019 Pacific Games, held in Apia, Samoa. [5]
Roberts represented the Cook Islands at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he swam in the men's 1500 metre freestyle. [6]
At the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara he won gold medals in the 100 [7] and 400 meters freestyle, [8] silver in the 50 meters butterfly, [7] and bronze in the 200 meters medley. [2]
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