He Won Five
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Gold Medals
SUVA-BORN Carl Bay, 18, was the record gold medal winner at the Games—he gained five gold medals for Fiji, all for swimming, Carl, the son of the Deputy Director of Education in Fiji, was educated at the Suva Grammar School until 1959, and has since been at the Whangarei Boys High School, NZ.
At the age of 10, he started swimming under Auckland coach Paul Krause, who visits Fiji each winter. He has continued regular training under Krause since he has been in New Zealand.
Carl has had plenty of competition —he has swum in the Auckland championships and is senior swim ming champion of his school. He hopes to attend university at the end of this year.
Kaddour's Success Another outstanding medal winner at the Games, and the most success ful sportsman for New Caledonia was Christian Kaddour, 20, who won three gold medals, a silver and a bronze for athletics.
New Caledonia-born, he is a laboratory assistant with a Noumea college. For nine months before the Games, he trained in France.
He is young enough to be a real threat to other gold medal hopes at the Noumea Games.