Geua Vada Tau
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| Born | 3 May 1957 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn Bowls | ||||||||||||||
Event | Singles | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 23 August 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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Geau Vada-Tau (born 3 May 1957) is a Papua New Guinean lawn bowler. Tau came to prominence 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 as the first Commonwealth Games gold medalist from Papua New Guinea. Tau plays for the Boroko Club in Port Moresby.
References
Categories:
- 1957 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Papua New Guinean sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Port Moresby
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinean female bowls players
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls
- Papua New Guinean sportspeople stubs
- Bowls biography stubs