Pacific games

Logo of the 2011 Pacific Games in New Caledonia

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
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)
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	New Caledonia	837	673	585	2091
2	Tahiti / ( French Polynesia)	485	413	437	1335
3	Papua New Guinea	432	399	404	1235
4th	Fiji	419	505	430	1354
5	Samoa / (Western Samoa)	184	152	157	503
6th	Nauru	81	51	30th	164
7th	Guam	62	91	122	277
8th	Tonga	45	55	82	165
9	American Samoa	44	43	74	161
10	Cook Islands	25th	43	57	125
11	Wallis and Futuna	23	36	77	136
12	Solomon Islands	17th	48	87	150
13	Australia	17th	19th	11	47
14th	Federated States of Micronesia	16	16	11	43
15th	Vanuatu / ( New Hebrides)	14th	41	65	120
16	Palau	9	14th	10	33
17th	Norfolk Island	5	13	17th	35
18th	Kiribati	5	11	20th	38
19th	Northern Mariana Islands	4th	12	12	28
20th	Tokelau	3	2	1	6th
21st	New Zealand	1	9	10	20th
22nd	Marshall Islands	0	3	11	14th
23	Niue	0	2	7th	9
24	Tuvalu	0	1	1	2
	Gilbert and Ellice Islands (until 1978)	0	1	1	2

Individual evidence

1. ^ South Pacific Games Blog. Google Cache, archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; Retrieved May 3, 2009 . 
2. ^ Upcoming Games. sportingpulse.com, accessed January 24, 2012 . 
3. ↑ inside the games: Solomon Islands awarded 2023 Pacific Games
4. ↑ The Gilbert Islands have formed the state of Kiribati since 1979, the Ellica Islands since 1978 the state of Tuvalu.

Web links

• Homepage of the host of the PG, the Pacific Games Council (English)
• Official homepage of the Pacific Games 2015 in Papua New Guinea (English)