VII South Pacific Mini Games | |
Size: | 190px |
Host City: | Koror |
Country: | |
Nations: | 20 |
Events: | 12 sports |
Opened By: | Tommy Remengesau |
Torch Lighter: | Christopher Silas Adolf |
Stadium: | National Stadium |
Previous: | 2001 Kingston |
The VII South Pacific Mini Games were held July 25-August 4, 2005 in Palau.
Torch lighter was athlete Christopher Silas Adolf, Palau's first Olympian.
Tahiti and Tokelau did not send teams to the games, with Tahiti citing a need to conserve costs.
12 sports were contested at the 2005 Pacific Mini Games:
Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of events in each sport.
New Caledonia dominated the medal tally, finishing ahead of Fiji. The small nation of Nauru finished in third place with 18 gold medals; all of them gold and won in the weightlifting competition. Host nation Palau also won 18 medals and finished in sixth position on the table.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
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1 | New Caledonia | 56 | 29 | 25 | 110 | |
2 | Fiji | 23 | 21 | 16 | 60 | |
3 | Nauru | 18 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
4 | Papua New Guinea | 16 | 11 | 8 | 35 | |
5 | Samoa | 16 | 8 | 2 | 26 | |
6 | Palau | 9 | 3 | 6 | 18 | |
7 | Guam | 6 | 9 | 14 | 29 | |
8 | Cook Islands | 5 | 9 | 7 | 21 | |
9 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | ||
10 | Tonga | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |
11 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 23 | ||
12 | Solomon Islands | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | |
13 | Vanuatu | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
14 | Wallis and Futuna | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
15 | Marshall Islands | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
16 | Niue | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
17 | Norfolk Island | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
18 | Tuvalu | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
19 | American Samoa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Kiribati | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
No medal awarded | 2 | 49 | 77 | 128 | ||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tokelau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 --> | ||
Totals | 172 | 172 | 179 | 523 |
Web site: 2005 . Athletics . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20100413223124/http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-2662-0-0-0 . 2010-04-13.
Web site: 2005 . Baseball . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Basketball was included in the 2005 Mini Games in lieu of the FIBA Oceania Tournament. Web site: 2005 . Basketball . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Beach Volleyball . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Outrigger Canoeing (Va'a) . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Softball . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Swimming . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Table Tennis . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Tennis . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Triathlon . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Weightlifting . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
Web site: 2005 . Wrestling . 2005 South Pacific Mini Games . 2009-08-14 .
As per the Pacific Games Charter: