Sailing at the Pacific Games was first contested when the sport was added for the 1969 games at Port Moresby. It has also been included at several of the Pacific Mini Games, starting with the fifth edition held in American Samoa in 1997.
Pacific Games
editThe sailing events contested at each Pacific Games are listed in the table below. Flag icons and three letter country code indicate the nationality of the gold medal winner of an event, where this information is known; otherwise an (X) is used. Moving the cursor onto a country code with a dotted underline will reveal the name of the gold medal winner. A dash (–) indicates an event that was not contested.
Sailboats
edit| Games | Year | Host city | Men's dinghy |
Open multihull |
Women's dinghy |
Total events |
Refs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I – II | Sailing not contested 1963–1966 | |||||||||
| Fireball | ||||||||||
| Pair | Team | |||||||||
| III | 1969 | Port Moresby |  PNG |
– | – | – | – | – | 1 | [A] |
| IV | 1971 | Papeete |  TAH |
– | – | – | – | – | 1 | [B] |
| Laser | Hobie 16 | |||||||||
| Single | Team | Pair | Team | |||||||
| V | 1975 | Tumon |  GUM |
– | – | – | – | – | 1 | [C] |
| VI | 1979 | Suva | – | – | TAH |
– | – | – | 1 | [D] |
| VII | Sailing not contested in 1983 | |||||||||
| VIII | 1987 | Nouméa | – | – |  NCL |
NCL |
– | – | 2 | [E] |
| IX | 1991 | Port Moresby | – | – |  TAH |
TAH |
– | – | 2 | [F] |
| X | 1995 | Papeete | – | – | TAH |
TAH |
– | – | 2 | [G] |
| Laser | Hobie 16 | Laser Radial | ||||||||
| Single | Team | Pair | Team | Single | Team | |||||
| XI | 1999 () |
Santa Rita | GUM |
GUM |
– | – | NCL |
NCL |
4 | [H] |
| XII | 2003 () |
Suva | TAH |
TAH |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
 FIJ |
6 | [I] |
| XIII | 2007 () |
Apia | NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
6 | |
| XIV | 2011 () |
Nouméa |  NCL |
NCL |
TAH |
TAH |
 COK |
COK |
6 | |
| XV | 2015 () |
Port Moresby |  AUS |
AUS |
NCL |
NCL |
COK |
COK |
6 | |
| XV | 2019 () |
Apia | NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
 SAM |
6 | |
Sailboards
editSailboarding was included from 1987 to 2003 at the South Pacific Games, with 24 of the 27 events won by New Caledonia.
| Games | Year | Host city | Men's | Men's heavyweight |
Women's | Total events |
Refs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single | Team | Single | Team | Single | Team | |||||||
| VIII | 1987 | Nouméa | NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
6 | [E] | ||
| IX | 1991 | Port Moresby | NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
6 | [F] | ||
| X | 1995 | Papeete | NCL |
NCL |
TAH |
NCL |
NCL |
NCL |
6 | [G] | ||
| XI | 1999 () |
Santa Rita | NCL |
NCL |
FIJ |
FIJ |
NCL |
NCL |
6 | [H] | ||
| XII | 2003 () |
Suva | NCL |
NCL |
– | – | NCL |
not awarded |
3 | [I] | ||
Pacific Mini Games
editSailing joined the Pacific Mini Games program in 1997.
| Games | Year | Host city | Men's dinghy |
Open multihull |
Women's dinghy |
Total events |
Refs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I – IV | Sailing not contested 1981–1993 | |||||||||
| Laser | Hobie 16 | Laser Radial | ||||||||
| Single | Team | Pair | Team | Single | Team | |||||
| V | 1997 | Pago Pago | GUM |
GUM |
TAH |
TAH |
TAH |
not awarded |
5 | [J] |
| VI–VII | Sailing not contested 2001–2005 | |||||||||
| VIII | 2009 | Rarotonga | TAH |
COK |
NCL |
NCL |
COK |
COK |
6 | [K] |
| IX | 2013 () |
Mata-Utu | NCL |
NCL |
FIJ |
FIJ |
COK |
NCL |
6 | [L] |
| X–XI | Sailing not contested 2017–2023 | |||||||||
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Papua New Guinea won the Fireball event,[1] with Geoff Dabb (Dabb & Antonieff) the winners, ahead of Tahiti's Alan Burgaud (Burgaud & Burgaud), and Fiji's Bill Gardiner (Gardiner & Gilmore) in third.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Home team Tahiti took all three medals in Fireball dinghy event, with Krault and Frei the winning pair.
- ^ Laser class won by Guam's Phil Drips ahead of Kevin Read (PNG) and Bill Gardiner (Fiji).[6]
- ^ Hobie 16 class won by J. Salmon & N. Salmon of Tahiti, ahead of compatriots D. Arnould & G. Sachet, with A. Mazoyer & N. Cale of New Caledonia in third place.[7]
- ^ a b In 1987, host nation New Caledonia completed a clean sweep of the eight available sailing gold medals, winning all Hobie 16 and sailboarding classes.[8]
- ^ a b The French territories dominated the regatta. Tahiti won the two Hobie events, and New Caledonia won all six sailboarding events.[9]
- ^ a b Tahiti won both gold medals in the Hobie 16 class and a further gold in the heavyweight men's sailboard but New Caledonia dominated the rest of sailboarding events, winning five gold medals.[10]
- ^ a b Hosts Guam won both gold medals in men's Laser. New Caledonia won both gold medals in women's Laser Radial, and a further four gold in sailboarding. The men's heavyweight sailboarding gold medals were won by Fiji's Tony and John Philip.[11][12]
- ^ a b In 2003 there were five fleet sailing events; Laser for men,[13] Laser Radial for women,[14] Hobie 16 open class,[15] and men's and women's sailboarding (using Mistral One Design equipment). Each event was contested over 10–12 races. A gold medal was presented to the outright winner of each event (single sailor or sailing pair for the Hobie 16). The best national team in each event (on a three craft per team basis) was also awarded a gold medal – although at this games no team medal was awarded for women's sailboard as only one team entered. The New Caledonian women sailboarders Solenn Gourand, Ginseng Jeandot & Stephanie DuFourmantelle finished first, second and fourth in the regatta but there was only one other competitor in the event - Turia Vogel of Cook Islands, who finished third.[16] New Caledonia also dominated the sailboarding with Samuel Launay winning the men's event,[17] and Solenn Gourand winning the women's event. There were nine sailing gold medals presented.[18]
- ^ Guam took the honours in the multihulls while Guam won the three dinghy gold medals (no medal was awarded in the women's team event for Laser Radial).[19]
- ^ In the dinghy events, host nation Cook Islands won three gold medals and Tahiti won one gold medal.[20][21] New Caledonia won two gold medals in the Hobie 16.[22]
- ^ New Caledonia won three dinghy gold medals, with Cook Islands taking one gold. Fiji took the multihull honours.[23][24][25][26]
References
edit- ^ 1969 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). p. 10. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Boughton, Trevor (1969). "Letter: Games Yachting". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 40, no. 10. pp. 164–165.
- ^ "Royal Papua Yacht Club: A History to 1981" (PDF). Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "New Caledonia thrashes Fiji in soccer: South Pacific Games". The Canberra Times. 19 August 1969.
- ^ "Results of the 1975 Games". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ 1979 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). p. 2. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ 1987 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ 1991 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ 1995 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ 1999 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ 1999 South Pacific Games Medal Lists. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on October 29, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "2003 South Pacific Games - Laser Men". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "2003 South Pacific Games - Laser Women". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "2003 South Pacific Games - Hobie 16". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
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"2003 South Pacific Games - Sailboard Women". Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "2003 South Pacific Games - Sailboard Men". Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "South Pacific Games: List of Medalists". SportsTG. 2003. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original on 1 September 2017.
- ^ Final Results August 11–21. 1997: 5th South Pacific Mini Games. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). p. 100. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Laser Standard". Pacific Mini Games 2009. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Laser Radial". Pacific Mini Games 2009. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Hobie 16". Pacific Mini Games 2009. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Laser: Mini Games". Sporting Pulse. Oceania Sailing Federation. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Team scores: Mini Games". Sporting Pulse. Oceania Sailing Federation. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Hobie: Mini Games". Sporting Pulse. Oceania Sailing Federation. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Laser Radial: Mini Games". Sporting Pulse. Oceania Sailing Federation. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015.