Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Thursday, June 3, 1999

Three share spotlight
in powerlifting

Teen-agers Edwin Manmano and Lono Manners and 59-year-old Larry Texeira provided some high points of the recent Push-Pull Powerlifting Meet at Waialua Recreation Center.

Manmano had a deadlift of 455 pounds in the 132-pound division and Manners bench pressed 375 in the 165-pound division.

Texeira, competing in the masters (55-59 years) 165-pound division, deadlifted 400 pounds.

Polikapo Liua had a 650-pound deadlift, high for the meet, which was sponsored by the Waialua Health Club.

Aussie wins surf meet

Australia's Mark Occhilupo won the Quiksilver Pro Fiji surfing meet today at Cloudbreak on Tavarua Island, Fiji, climbing to No. 1 in the G-Shock ASP World Championship Tour standings with his second victory of the season.

Occhilupo defeated Brazil's Victor Ribas in the final, earning $15,000 and enough points to overtake fellow Aussie Damien Hardman in the WCT rankings.

Hawaii's Shawn Sutton and Kalani Robb were eliminated in fourth-round heats earlier in the day.

Shane Dorian is Hawaii's highest-ranked surfer at No. 4. Sunny Garcia is seventh and Robb 11th.

Gammon, Hutchings sparkle

Great Britain's Michelle Gammon and New Zealand's Cory Hutchings were individual standouts among more than 80 athletes who competed yesterday in the Waikiki Open Ocean Challenge at Fort DeRussy Beach, a prelude to the Hawaiian International Ocean Challenge for international lifeguard teams.

Gammon, the eight-time European Ironwoman champion, took two first and a second in the swim, surfski and run-swim. Hutchings won the Waikiki Ocean Medley (swim, surfski, paddleboard) by a scant five-second margin over Australian Steve Pullen.

Young golf winners

Joan Shimozaki beat Shayna Miyajima by one stroke in an all-Maui girls' final and Casey Watabu of Kauai edged Blaine Lee of Honolulu by one for the boys' title at the May 30 Independent Insurance Agents Junior Classic, the state qualifier for the national IIAJC tournament.

Shimozaki, Watabu and Lee will represent Hawaii at the nationals in August at Houston. They were among 13 boys and eight girls from all islands competing at the Princeville Makai course on Kauai.

Isle women in Liberty Challenge

Anuenue's all-female crew from Hawaii will join 69 other men's and women's outrigger canoe-racing teams in the June 26 Liberty Challenge, a 15-mile grind in New York Harbor .

The event has drawn some 400 paddlers from the U.S. mainland, Hawaii, Australia, Guam and Canada.