2008 Annual Report
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2008 Annual Report Mrs Auvita Rapilla Deputy Secretary General 2008 Secretariat Report 2008 was another year of great success raising the benchmark in our fundraising efforts and our athletes proving their worth with excellent performance at the Olympic Games. For the first time we entered a team in the Commonwealth Youth Games, which enabled us to gauge the performance of our up and coming athletes, some of which will be targeted for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India and the Olympic Youth Games both in 2010, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With very proactive committees we saw many projects implemented and achieved through effective teamwork and partnership with major stakeholders. This report summarizes the highlights for 2008. 1. Olympic Solidarity 1.1 National Activities Grant The following sports were allocated funds for their national activities: Athletics (US$3000); Archery (US$3000); Basketball (US$3000); Beach Volleyball (US$2000); Boxing (US$3000); Hockey (US$3000); Judo (US$3000); Sailing (US$3000); Shooting (US$2000); Swimming (US$3000); Softball (US$3000); Taekwondo (US$3000); Table Tennis (US$3000); Tennis (US$3000); Volleyball (US$3000); and Weightlifting (US$3000). 1.2 Olympic Scholarship for Coaches Three female coaches were granted Olympic Scholarship for Coaches in 2008. The late Nicole Angat was awarded a long term scholarship for a one year attachment at the Oceania Regional Tennis Centre in Lautoka, Fiji, whilst Vere Tere-Apisah was awarded a scholarship for a two month attachment. Nicole’s coaching career came to an end after she lost her life in a tragic accident in Suva on 23 rd February 2008. The third female recipient was Table Tennis Coach, Samoa Rage who accompanied the Oceania Junior Team to the Oceania Junior Team Talent Camp in Xian, China from 12 th January to 4 th February 2008. 2 1.3 Beijing Olympic Scholarships In achieving the objective of qualifying athletes for the Beijing Games, we were fortunate to have three of our four athletes; Dika Toua; Ryan Pini and Mae Koime qualify for the Olympics on merit, whilst Mowen Boino was entered by the PNG Athletics Union as the most competitive male athlete for the Games. 1.4 Sports Medicine Course The second Sports Medicine Course was held in Lae at the Melanesian Hotel on 25 th and 26 th October 2008. The course delivered by Dr Bernie Amof was attended by 25 participants from National Federations, PNG Sports Foundation and Provincial Sports Offices. 1.5 Equipment Grant The following sports were allocated funds for purchase of sports equipment: Athletics (US$500); Archery (US$500); Basketball (US$500); Sailing (US$500); Shooting (US$500); Softball (US$500); Swimming (US$500); Taekwondo (US$500); Table Tennis (US$500); and Volleyball (US$500). 1.6 MEMOS XI Auvita Rapilla, Deputy Secretary General successfully completed her Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management through the Olympic Solidarity Scholarship from September 2007 to September 2008. Out of the 29 graduates from around the world, she was awarded the inaugural “Alberto Madella” Award for the Best Research Project Her project titled “A Strategic Planning Tool to assess and enhance performance of National Federations in Papua New Guinea” saw her develop a Sports Planning Self-Assessment Tool to determine the capacity and development levels of National Federations. 2. Prime Ministers (PMs) Corporate Golf Challenge (Port Moresby & Lae) PNGSFOC held two successful PM Golf Challenges in Port Moresby and Lae on 7 th March and 30 th May respectively. A total of K250,792.59 was raised from the two events to support Team PNG to the Beijing Olympic Games. 3 3. Trukai Olympic Day Fun Run & T-shirt Auctions The Trukai Fun Run T-shirt Auctions held on 26 th March in Lae and 27 th March in Port Moresby raised a record K650,000. Proceeds from the auction went towards Team PNG’s participation in the Beijing Olympics. 4. Trukai Olympic Day Fun Run A record turnout of approximately 35,000 people participated in the Trukai Fun Run in Port Moresby alone and about 5,000 in the other centres with a total record of approximately 40, 000 nationwide on Sunday 20 th July 2008. Apart from Port Moresby the Fun Run was also held in 11 other centres which included Lae, Kokopo, Madang, Mt. Hagen, Goroka, Kavieng, Kimbe, Alotau, Tabubil, Lihir, Pogera. 5. SP Sports Awards 2008 The presentation night of the SP Sports Awards 2008 was held on 24 th May at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Special Guest Speaker for the evening was Olympian Cathy Freeman sharing her Olympic experience inspiring our athletes for the Beijing Games. Winners of the 2008 SP Sports Awards were: Sportsman of the Year - Menzie Yere (Rugby League) Sportswoman of the Year - Linda Pulsun (Powerlifting) Team of the Year - PNG Kumuls Rugby League Team Life Time Achievement - Ryan Pini (swimming) National Performance - Inauaisa Roosters Women’s Volleyball Team Distinguish Services to Sport - Peter Fong (Billiards & Snooker) Best Sportsperson with Disablility – Francis Kompaon Junior Team of the Year - Telikon U/19 Cricket Team Junior Female Athlete - Abigail Tere-Apisah (Tennis) Junior Male Athlete - Stephen Kari (Weightlifting) Sports Administrator - Cheryl Amini (Cricket) Coach of the Year - Francis Moyap (Soccer) Technical Official of the Year – Clive Elly (Cricket) Sports Reporter of the Year - Moua Amoa (Central FM) We acknowledge SP Brewery for their continued support as the major sponsor since 1993 and with total prize monies of K45,500. We also acknowledge support sponsors EMTV; Post Courier; NauFM & YumiFM; Air Niugini and Crowne Plaza for their on-going support since 2002. 4 6. Beijing Olympic Games Papua New Guinea was privileged to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games with a team of: 7 athletes and 8 sports officials; 2 Medicals and 3 General Management including the Chef De Mission; Admin Assistant and Team Photographer. This being the 8th Olympic Games PNG has participated since the 1976 Montreal Games. Our athletes were entered in the following events: Athletics - Mae Koime 100m Sprints Mowen Boino 400m Hurdles Boxing - Jack Willie 48kg Division Swimming - Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane 50m Freestyle Ryan Pini 100 & 200 Freestyle and 100 Butterfly Taekwondo - Theresa Tona Under 49kg Division Weightlifting - Dika Toua 53kg Division The highlight for Team PNG was Ryan’s performance in the 100m Butterfly qualifying for the finals on Saturday 16 th August finishing 8th in a time of 51:86. Ryan was also ranked as the 10 th All Time Fastest in the world for the 100 Butterfly. Both Ryan and Dika Toua were awarded Olympic Diplomas for finishing 8 th in their respective events. 7. Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune, India PNG entered a team of 12 athletes and 7 officials in the Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune in five sports: Athletics; Boxing; Swimming; Table Tennis and Weightlifting. The Games were held from 12 th to 18 th October 2008. Despite being the first time for PNG to participate in these games, our fine young athletes did exceptionally well doing PNG proud. 8. HIV Prevention Through Sport Following the April 2007 Oceania Workshop hosted in Port Moresby, a Committee on HIV Prevention Through Sport was formed, led by the PNG Sports Federation & Olympic Committee and with PNG Sports Foundation, National AIDS Council, Tingim Laip, Igat Hope and UNAIDS as 5 members. Essentially the Committee connects the sports community with the HIV community to coordinate activities to address HIV through sport. The slogan of the Committee is: “Be a Leader: Promote Sport – Prevent HIV”. With funding support from the National Aids Council and Sports For Development Initiative (SFDI)the Committee has successfully achieved the following: • Employment of a full-time Coordinator to coordinate its operations. • Creation of a National Declaration for PNG signed by 15 other key stakeholders as partners to implement recommendations of the Oceania Regional workshop. • The formulation of the HIV “SportsPlace” Policy for adoption by the sports community. A policy has been adopted by a number of national sports organizations. Special events supported by the Committee included: 8.1 Cathy Freeman “Inclusive Sports Event” at the Australian High Commission to coincide with the visit of Cathy Freeman as guest speaker at the SP Sports Awards. The invited guests to the event were four groups: • Elite Sportsmen and Sportswomen including Olympians; • People with a Disability • Women’s groups (Haus Ruth and Morata Crisis Centre) • People living with HIV, and HIV organisation representatives • Leadership PNG Each group had an informal discussion time with Cathy Freeman, and also participated in inclusive “sport ability” fun games facilitated by PNG Sports Foundation, mixing the groups and abilities and generating fun. T- shirts with the slogan “Don’t look down on anybody…unless you are helping them up!” were distributed after each discussion, thereby gradually spreading the inclusiveness message visually so that by the end of the event everyone was mingling and dressed the same. 8.2 Elite Athletes Breakfast The PNG Athletes Commission organised a fun morning for all elite athletes, to interact and network as well as play inclusive “sport ability” games that disseminated messages about HIV. This helped pilot the use of the “Kicking AIDS Out” sport-based games approach to HIV awareness and education. 8.3 Sport & Environment “Clean-a-thon” 6 The PNGSFOC held its inaugural ‘Sports Clean-a-thon’ on 19 th July funded under the Olympic Solidarity Sport & Environment Program and HIV Prevention Through Sport Program. It was held a day before the Trukai Olympic Day Fun Run to clean along the route of the run. Approximately 90 participants took part from National Federations; Athletes Commission and HIV Committee. All participants were issued a t-shirt with the HIV red ribbon and the slogan “Respect: For My Body; For My Community; For My Environment”.