{"id":169014,"date":"2025-12-05T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169014\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:17:12","slug":"tolu-young-is-first-fijian-swimmer-to-make-it-to-us-open-championships-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolu Young is first Fijian swimmer to make it to US Open Championships finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is history in the making as Tolu Young\u00a0is the first ever Fijian swimmer to make it to the US Open Championships Men&#8217;s 50 metres freestyle finals tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Young\u00a0qualified for tonight&#8217;s finals in the US Open Championships after\u00a0being placed 6th in the final line-up.<\/p>\n<p>He also\u00a0smashed a new personal best from 22.15 to 21.92 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Young who is from Savusavu also\u00a0beat US swimming sprint superstar, Caeleb Dressel.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, his\u00a0mother, Morika Hunter has wished Tolu all the best for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter says she is so proud and thanks the\u00a0Babale Swim Club, Dolphin Swim Club Fiji, FASANOC, Fiji Swimming, Sun Devil Swimming and Diving for helping Tolu get here.<\/p>\n<p>All the best to you Tolu from all of us in Fiji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is history in the making as Tolu Young\u00a0is the first ever Fijian swimmer to make it to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109685,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-169014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-feature-swimming","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}