Biography
Arapo will be 17 years old and a student of Kaitaia College when he competes in wrestling at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
How did you get into your sport? I started when I was four years old, I grew up in Wyoming in the USA and my friends and my older brother were wrestlers.
What do you love about the sport? The physicality and intensity that wrestling brings is like no other, it is the ultimate challenge.
What inspires you?To push myself to be better in life not just in sport.
Career highlight: The first time I got to wear the Silver Fern and represent New Zealand in front of my Grandparents.
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Fast facts
- Sport
- Wrestling - Greco-Roman
- Birth place
- Tokoroa
- Born
- 2001
- Height
- 163cm
