Personal information | |
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Nationality | Tuvaluan |
Born | Nanumanga, Tuvalu [1] | 10 June 1999
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1] |
Sport | |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | Sprints |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 11.35s (
100 m)
[2] 23.66s ( 200 m) [3] [4] |
Karalo Hepoiteloto Maibuca Junior (born 10 June 1999) is a Tuvaluan sprinter. He is the son of Ratu Karalo Maibuca Senior, a Fijian, and a mother from Kioa. [5] He was selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics [6] and was given the honour of being the flag bearer for his nation in the opening ceremony alongside Matie Stanley. [7] In the preliminary round of the 100 metres he ran a Tuvaluan national record time of 11.42 seconds, but did not qualify to the next round. [8]
Maibuca represented Tuvalu at the Pacific Mini Games in Saipan where he competed in the 100m (11.76 [-2.0]) and the 200m (23.66 [-0.9]. [9]
Maibuca represented Tuvalu at the Gold Coast XXI Commonwealth Games in 2018 and the Birmingham XXII Commonwealth Games in 2022, [10] where he broke the Tuvalu national record in the 100m with a time of 11.39 [+0.6]. [11] Maibuca competed in the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, running 11.55 [0.0] in the 100 metres, [12] [13] but failed to progress past the preliminary round.
Maibuca represented Tuvalu in the 2023 Pacific Games: