South Pacific Games 1969
The South Pacific Games 1969 ( English South Pacific Games 1969 ) were held from 13 to 23 August 1969 in Port Moresby , the capital of Papua New Guinea . These games were the 3rd edition of the South Pacific Games . The games were officially opened by Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent , and his wife Katharine .
The athletes fought for 286 medals in 95 competitions in athletics , basketball , boxing , netball , rugby , soccer , swimming , table tennis , tennis and volleyball . Marie-José Kersaudy , a swimmer from Team New Caledonia, was the most successful participant , as in the South Pacific Games in 1966, with another seven gold medals.
Medal table
| Medal table | |||||
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 New Caledonia
|
36 | 20th | 21st | 77 |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Papua and New Guinea
|
23 | 23 | 18th | 64 |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Fiji
|
13 | 18th | 25th | 56 |
| 4th |
 Tahiti / French Polynesia
|
8th | 11 | 13 | 32 |
| 5 |
 Tonga
|
6th | 4th | 2 | 12 |
| 6th |
 Western Samoa
|
4th | 4th | 1 | 9 |
| 7th |
 Wallis and Futuna
|
1 | 5 | 1 | 7th |
| 8th |
.svg){kind=small}  New Hebrides
|
1 | 4th | 2 | 7th |
| 9 |
 Guam
|
1 | 3 | 2 | 6th |
| 10 |
 Nauru
|
1 | 2 | 4th | 7th |
| 11 |
 American Samoa
|
1 | - | 5 | 6th |
| 12 |
.svg){kind=small} Solomon Islands
|
- | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| total | 95 | 96 | 95 | 286 | |