Pacific games
The Pacific Games ( English Pacific Games , formerly South Pacific Games ) are regularly South Pacific area held sports competition events. They were introduced at the suggestion of Sahu Khan and were held for the first time in Suva ( Fiji ) in 1963 .
The Pacific Games are organized by the Pacific Games Council , which consists of the Executive Committee, the technical committees, and the national sports associations (mostly the NOKs ) organized in the Pacific Games Association .
M. Turukawa, the shot putter from Fiji, was the first ever gold medalist at the South Pacific Games . In a total of 60 decisions, Fiji won 34 gold medals. In 2007, the South Pacific Games soccer tournament served as the first round of the 2008 OFC Nation Cup .
After the South Pacific Games 2007 in Samoa , the name of the games was changed to Pacific Games on September 8, 2007 . The last Pacific Games were held from July 4th to 18th, 2015 in Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea . This marked the 40th anniversary of Papua New Guinea's independence.
Venues
year | date | City Country | Attendees | Nations | sports | Medals |
Winner in the medal table |
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I. | 1963 | December 8th to 18th | Suva , Fiji | 646 | 13 | 10 | 179 | Fiji |
II | 1966 | August 29th to September 8th | Nouméa , New Caledonia | ~ 1200 | 14th | 258 | New Caledonia | |
III | 1969 | August 13-23 | Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea | 268 | New Caledonia | |||
IV | 1971 | August 25th to September 5th | Papeete , Tahiti | 14th | 359 | New Caledonia | ||
V | 1975 | August 1st to 10th | Guam | 12 | 365 | New Caledonia | ||
VI | 1979 | August 28th to September 8th | Suva, Fiji | 13 | 400 | New Caledonia | ||
VII | 1983 | September 5th to 16th | Apia , Samoa | 13 | 296 | New Caledonia | ||
VIII | 1987 | December 8th to 20th | Nouméa, New Caledonia | 471 | New Caledonia | |||
IX | 1991 | September 7-21 | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | 498 | Papua New Guinea | |||
X | 1995 | August 25th to September 5th | Papeete, Tahiti | 785 | New Caledonia | |||
XI | 1999 | Guam | ≥ 19 | 726 | New Caledonia | |||
XII | 2003 | June 28th to July 12th | Suva, Fiji | ~ 3500 | 22nd | 908 | New Caledonia | |
XIII | 2007 | August 25th to September 8th | Apia, Samoa | ~ 5000 | 22nd | 33 | 905 | New Caledonia |
XIV | 2011 | August 27th to September 11th | Nouméa, New Caledonia | ~ 4300 | 22nd | 908 | New Caledonia | |
XV | 2015 | 4th to 18th July | Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea | 24 | 28 | 907 | Papua New Guinea | |
XVI | 2019 | Apia , Samoa | 26th | |||||
XVII | 2023 | Honiara , Solomon Islands |
Eternal medal table
To date, 8,107 medals have been awarded at 15 Pacific Games since 1963. 24 nations won medals. By far the most successful team is the New Caledonian, which won a total of 2,091 medals, 837 of which were gold medals.
The placements are sorted by the number of gold medals won, followed by the number of silver and bronze medals. If two or more countries have an identical medal balance, they are named alphabetically after the state name.
Eternal medal table of the Pacific Games (as of July 20, 2015) |
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space | team | gold | silver | bronze | total | ||
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1 |
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837 | 673 | 585 | 2091 | ||
2 |
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485 | 413 | 437 | 1335 | ||
3 |
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432 | 399 | 404 | 1235 | ||
4th |
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419 | 505 | 430 | 1354 | ||
5 |
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184 | 152 | 157 | 503 | ||
6th |
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81 | 51 | 30th | 164 | ||
7th |
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62 | 91 | 122 | 277 | ||
8th |
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45 | 55 | 82 | 165 | ||
9 |
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44 | 43 | 74 | 161 | ||
10 |
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25th | 43 | 57 | 125 | ||
11 |
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23 | 36 | 77 | 136 | ||
12 |
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17th | 48 | 87 | 150 | ||
13 |
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17th | 19th | 11 | 47 | ||
14th |
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16 | 16 | 11 | 43 | ||
15th |
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14th | 41 | 65 | 120 | ||
16 |
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9 | 14th | 10 | 33 | ||
17th |
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5 | 13 | 17th | 35 | ||
18th |
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5 | 11 | 20th | 38 | ||
19th |
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4th | 12 | 12 | 28 | ||
20th |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 6th | ||
21st |
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1 | 9 | 10 | 20th | ||
22nd |
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0 | 3 | 11 | 14th | ||
23 |
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0 | 2 | 7th | 9 | ||
24 |
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Individual evidence
- ^ South Pacific Games Blog. Google Cache, archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; Retrieved May 3, 2009 .
- ^ Upcoming Games. sportingpulse.com, accessed January 24, 2012 .
- ↑ inside the games: Solomon Islands awarded 2023 Pacific Games
- ↑ The Gilbert Islands have formed the state of Kiribati since 1979, the Ellica Islands since 1978 the state of Tuvalu.