 Following the games, he competed in a Commonwealth versus Great Britain athletics meet in London in August 1958, where he set a Fijian discus record of 51.84m, The record stood for 61 years until being broken by Mustafa Fall in 2019.Rakuro competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to progress beyond the qualifying round.However, he went on to win gold in both the discus and shot put in the 1963 South Pacific Games.