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Tolu Young Wins Three Gold Medals at 2026 Oceania Championships

By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam

Oceania Aquatics Championships

May 8th-13th, 2026 Suva, Fiji — Damodar City Aquatic Centre LCM (50 Meters) Full Meet Results

The 14th Oceania Aquatics Championships, which featured teams from a number of Oceanian countries, saw numerous new National Records over the five days of competition.

    Fiji, the host nation, was led by ASU sophomore Tolu Young, who won three gold medals and contributed to four relay gold medals for Fiji.

    Young won the 50 free (22.82), 100 free (51.42), and 50 fly (24.29) individually. He added from his personal best times in all three events, but he had a few strong relay splits, swimming 22.10 on the mixed 200 freestyle relay.

    Bolstered by Young, the Fiji team broke two Oceanian Championship records. Their first came in the mixed 200 freestyle relay where Grace Khelan (26.60), Hansel McCaig (22.81), Tolu Young (22.10), Anahira McCutcheon (25.32) swam 1:36.83. This swim was also a new Fiji National Record time.

    There were four other meet records set over the five-day meet including one more from Fiji. Samuel Yalimaiwai swam a personal best 28.22 in the men’s 50 breaststroke prelims. In the final, he swam 28.26 to win the gold medal, just off his lifetime best time.

    The other two men’s breaststroke events also saw new meet records, both set by Cook Islands’ Jacob Story. In the 100 breaststroke, he swam 1:01.81 and in the 200 breaststroke he swam 2:15.00. These swims were both off his personal bests of 1:01.70 and 2:14.41 respectively.

    The final meet record came from Tahiti’s Nael Roux in the men’s 800 freestyle. He swam 8:20.94 to win the event by 11 seconds over Australia’s Lachlan Evans who finished 2nd overall.

    National Records Set

    Cook Islands

    Lanihei Connolly: Women’s 50 Butterfly — 28.04 Mia Laban: Women’s 50 Backstroke — 31.36

    Fiji

    Samuel Yalimaiwai: Men’s 50 Breaststroke — 28.22 Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay — 3:30.55 (Reuben Taylor (53.49), Hansel McCaig (51.97), Tolu Young (50.84), Che Taito (54.25)) Mixed 200 Freestyle Relay — 1:36.83 (Grace Khelan (26.60), Hansel McCaig (22.81), Tolu Young (22.10), Anahira McCutcheon (25.32)) Mixed 400 Freestyle Relay — 3:39.18 (Grace Khelan (59.77), Anahira McCutcheon (56.40), Hansel McCaig (51.67), Tolu Young (51.34) Mixed 200 Medley Relay — 1:48.59 (Anahira McCutcheon (30.12), Samuel Yalimaiwai (28.42), Tolu Young (24.07), Grace Khelan (25.98)) Mixed 400 Medley Relay — 4:10.35 (Anahira McCutcheon, Samuel Yalimaiwai, Tolu Young, Grace Khelan)

    Northern Mariana Islands

    Juhn Tenorio: Men’s 50 Freestyle — 23.77 Isaiah Aleksenko: Men’s 50 Backstroke — 26.40 Isaiah Aleksenko: Men’s 100 Backstroke — 57.39 Isaiah Aleksenko: Men’s 50 Butterfly — 24.60 Isaiah Aleksenko: Men’s 100 Butterfly — 53.89 Kouki Watanabe: Men’s 50 Breaststroke — 31.08 Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay — 3:38.17 (Juhn Tenorio (54.46), Justin Ma (56.22), Moshe Sikkel (54.47), Isaiah Aleksenko (53.02))

    Palau

    Kazuumi Nestor: Men’s 50 Freestyle — 24.72 Kazuumi Nestor: Men’s 50 Backstroke — 28.24 Kazuumi Nestor: Men’s 200 Backstroke — 2:23.21 Jion Hosei: Men’s 50 Breaststroke — 31.53 Jion Hosei: Men’s 100 Breaststroke — 1:11.18 Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay — 3:41.84 (Jion Hosei (56.55), Travis Sakurai (56.97), Charlie Gibbons (53.95), Kazuumi Nestor (54.37)) Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay — 8:42.98 (Charlie Gibbons, Kazuumi Nestor, Travis Sakurai, Jion Hosei) Men’s 400 Medley Relay — 4:15.83 (Kazuumi Nestor (1:03.76), Jion Hosei (1:12.29), Charlie Gibbons (1:02.43), Travis Sakurai (57.35))

    Samoa

    Paige Schendelaar-Kemp: Women’s 50 Butterfly — 27.69 Men’s 400 Medley Relay — 4:02.01 (Kobe Tuiti (1:01.42), Christian Toia (1:05.39), Kokoro Frost (59.57), Johann Stickland (55.63))

    Tahiti

    Nael Roux: Men’s 200 Freestyle — 1:51.83 Nael Roux: Men’s 800 Freestyle — 8:20.94 Nael Roux: Men’s 400 IM — 4:35.94 Deotille Videau: Women’s 50 Butterfly — 27.88 Deotille Videau: Women’s 100 Butterfly — 1:01.63 Deotille Videau: Women’s 200 IM — 2:19.63

    Tonga

    Vaoahi Afu: Women’s 50 Breaststroke — 34.88 Vaoahi Afu: Women’s 100 Breaststroke — 1:18.63

    Vanuatu

    Choe Ameara: Women’s 100 Backstroke — 1:31.07 Leo Lebot: Men’s 50 Butterfly — 28.93 Leo Lebot: Men’s 100 Freestyle — 59.19 Loane Russet: Women’s 100 Freestyle — 1:02.21 Loane Russet: Women’s 50 Breaststroke — 38.59 Remi Idieder: Men’s 100 Backstroke — 1:13.88 Remi Idieder: Men’s 50 Backstroke — 33.23 Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay — 4:16.67

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