At age 13, Handel Tupu Fua is fast becoming the future of the sport, being the first Samoan to win a individual repechage race in the Junior 16 Men’s V1 500m at the IVF World Sprints in Singapore.Representing the Va’a Samoa squad, Fua secured the international title by out-paddling a field of old...
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Samoans abroad
By Ramaleh Viliamu
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26 August 2026, 4:20PM
The IVF World Sprint Championships made history by coming to Asian waters for the first time, held right in Singapore. Teams from…
Team Va’a Samoa has navigated a gruelling second day at the IVF World Sprints Championship in Singapore, with paddlers battling…
From an eight-year-old paddler to competitors in their 60s, va‘a proved a sport for all ages at the Nafanua Sprints Regatta held…
Samoan student Alexandrea Ape-Paia has been named the 2026 EY Pacific Business Student of the Year at the University of…
Samoa's outrigger canoe team is confident it is ready to compete at the 2026 IVF World Sprint Championships in Singapore after…
52 year-old, Grant Smith, an Australian police adviser from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) discovers Samoa by going beyond…
