Saimoni Tamani

Saimoni Tamani (born 14 November 1944) is a Fijian former athlete who specialized in running the 400 metres (400-meter dash).

[2] Tamani won a gold medal in the 1966 South Pacific Games in Noumea.

At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Tamani won the bronze medal in the 400 metres with a time of 45.82 seconds.

He was slated to compete at the 1972 Summer Olympics[4] in Munich, West Germany, but suffered a foot injury during the NCAA indoor track season.

[5] In 1973 he moved to the United States, where he worked at a paper mill in Longview, Washington, retiring after 30 years.