Dalton Tagelagi

Dalton Tagelagi, born on 5 June 1968 in Alofi, is a Niuean lawn bowler who has represented Niue at three editions of the Commonwealth Games. He is better known at home as a politician, serving as the sixth Prime Minister of Niue since June 2020, but his sporting record runs alongside that public career. Tagelagi first appeared in bowls for Niue at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and returned for the 2018 Games on the Gold Coast. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham he entered both the men's pairs and the men's fours. His father, Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi, was Speaker of the Niue Legislative Assembly for more than two decades, and Tagelagi attended Halamahaga Primary School and Niue High School before entering politics in 2008. Niue is a very small Pacific nation, so a bowler from there takes part in the Commonwealth Games as one of a handful of athletes in a small delegation.