Swimming at the Pacific Games explained

Swimming competitions have been held at the Pacific Games since the inaugural edition in 1963 at every Games except for 1983. Swimming has also been held once at the South Pacific Mini Games, in 2005.

Pacific Games

Editions

GamesYearHost cityEventsTop placed teamRef
width=50Menwidth=50Womenwidth=50Total
I1963 Suva8   6   14 Fiji[1] [2]
II1966 Nouméa10 9 19 New Caledonia[3]
III1969 Port Moresby10 9 19 New Caledonia[4]
IV1971 Papeete10 9 19 Papua New Guinea[5]
V1975 Agana12 9 21 [6]
VI1979 Suva  12 12   24
VII1983 <---->ApiaSwimming not held – no facility
VIII1987 Nouméa131225[7]
IX1991 Port Moresby16 16 32[8]
X1995 Papeete16 16 32 New Caledonia[9]
XI1999 Agana17   17   34 New Caledonia[10]
XII2003 Suva20 20 40 New Caledonia[11] [12]
XIII2007 Apia20 20 40 New Caledonia[13] [14]
XIV2011 Nouméa20 20 40 New Caledonia[15]
XV2015 Port Moresby20 20   42 New Caledonia[16] [17]
XVI2019 Apia20 20   42 New Caledonia[18]

Pacific Mini Games

Editions

GamesYearHost cityEventsTop placed teamRef
width=50Menwidth=50Womenwidth=50Total
VII2005 Meyuns20 20 40 New Caledonia[19]

See also

Notes

The number of events does not include an unofficial 3 × 110 yd medley relay for women swum at the 1963 Games. Fiji and PNG finished first and second respectively but medals were not awarded.

There were either 24 or 23 events on the 1979 programme, depending on whether the men's 4 × 200 metres relay was contested and officially included in the medals. There are conflicting sources of information cited (as of November 2015) and none sufficient to provide clarity. The men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay was not listed in the results published in the November 1979 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM). However, there are sources which suggest that the PIM published results might have some inaccuracies and could be incomplete:

  1. The same PIM issue, two pages earlier, reports that Fiji won table tennis gold medals for both the women's team event and the women's doubles. However, only the women's doubles event is recorded in the PIM's list of results, and no women's (or men's) team event is included.
  1. Also earlier in the same PIM issue, it is reported that "Papua New Guinea took the bronze" in the netball competition, behind Fiji and Cook Islands. However, in the PIM results for the netball, Tonga is listed as finishing in third place.
  1. A publication from Guam's Political Status Education Coordinating Commission also states that the Guam swimmer Hollis Kimbrough, "won a record seven medals in the '79 SPG alone". As the PIM results show only four medals for Kimbrough plus two men's relay medals won by the Guam team, it may be the case that the men's 4 × 200 m event did take place but was missed in the results.

Despite swimming being a compulsory sport for the South Pacific Games, there was no facility built in Apia to host swimming events for the 1983 Games.

There were either 34 or 33 events on the 1999 programme, depending on whether the women's 4 × 200 metres relay was officially included in the medals. The medal list published on the Oceania Sport Information Centre (OSIC) website as of October 2015, omits the women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. However, the result sheet for the event records New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Northern Marianas as finishing first, second and third, respectively.

Two mixed gender relay events were added to the schedule.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. 1969 . South Pacific Games results 1963 and 1966 . Pacific Islands Monthly . 40 . 2 . 31–32 . Pacific Publications . 14 July 2015 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182719/http://i.imgur.com/oK4ylFa.png . December 20, 2016.
  2. Web site: 1963 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151028134753/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808994 . 28 October 2015.
  3. Web site: 1966 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151028071735/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3852495 . 28 October 2015.
  4. Web site: 1969 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151028125003/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3848484 . 28 October 2015.
  5. Web site: 1971 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151028122905/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3796035 . 28 October 2015.
  6. 1975 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 31 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031025319/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3796036 . 31 October 2015.
  7. 1987 South Pacific Games Results . 7 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151030143233/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3845705 . 30 October 2015.
  8. 1991 South Pacific Games Results . 11–12 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 31 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031005304/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3844268 . 31 October 2015.
  9. 1995 South Pacific Games Results . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 8 . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151030131955/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3843905 . 30 October 2015.
  10. 1999 South Pacific Games Results . 95–108 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 28 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151028221243/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3840875 . 28 October 2015.
  11. 2003 South Pacific Games Results . 83–86 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 31 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031122231/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3835949 . 31 October 2015.
  12. http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-1985-0-0-0&a=RESULTS 2003 South Pacific Games - Swimming: Schedule/Results
  13. 2007 South Pacific Games Results . 47–55 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 31 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031125412/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3809076 . 31 October 2015.
  14. http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-3571-0-0-0&a=RESULTS 2007 South Pacific Games - Swimming
  15. 2011 Pacific Games Results . 37–41 . Oceania Sport Information Centre . 31 October 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031130315/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808430 . 31 October 2015.
  16. Web site: Port Moresby 2015 . Swimming Schedule . 20 June 2015.
  17. Web site: 14 July 2015 . New Caledonia swimmers cap supremacy with open water double . Port Moresby 2015 . 12 July 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20150713094611/http://www.portmoresby2015.com/new-caledonia-swimmers-cap-supremacy-with-open-water-double/ . 13 July 2015.
  18. Web site: PC2019 Swimming Results . Samoa2019 . 12 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191203171606/https://www.samoa2019.ws/assets/Results/Swimming/90080c145a/PG2019_SWIMMING_RESULTS.pdf . 3 December 2019.
  19. Web site: 2005 . Competition Manual – Swimming Manual . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 1 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305193621/http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-2668-0-0-0&sID=24736 . 5 March 2016.

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