1971 South Pacific Games
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| Host city | Papeete | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Tahiti | ||
| Nations participating | 14 | ||
| Athletes participating | ~2,000 | ||
| Events | 17 sports | ||
| Opening ceremony | August 25, 1971 | ||
| Closing ceremony | September 5, 1971 | ||
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The 1971 South Pacific Games, held at Papeete in Tahiti from 25 August to 5 September 1971, was the fourth edition of the South Pacific Games.[1]
Approximately 1,500 male athletes and 500 female athletes participated in the games.[2]
Participating countries
Fourteen Pacific nations or territories competed at the Games:[2]
Note: A number in parentheses indicates the size of a country's team (where known).
Sports
There were 17 sports contested at the 1971 South Pacific Games:[4][2]
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Archery (2) -
Athletics (35) () -
Basketball (2) () -
Boxing (11) -
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Cycling (6) a -
Football (1) () -
Golf (2) -
Judo (6) -
Rugby union (1) () -
Sailing (1) b -
Softball (1) c -
Swimming (1) -
Table tennis (7) -
Tennis (7) -
Underwater fishing (2) -
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Volleyball (2) -
Weightlifting (8)
Note: A number in parentheses indicates how many medal events were contested in that sport (where known).
Final medal table
Medals were awarded in 117 events:[1]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  New Caledonia | 33 | 32 | 27 | 92 |
| 2 |  Papua New Guinea | 28 | 28 | 21 | 77 |
| 3 | French Polynesia | 22 | 24 | 24 | 70 |
| 4 |  Fiji | 16 | 17 | 13 | 46 |
| 5 |  Western Samoa | 9 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| 6 |  Tonga | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 7 |  Guam | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 8 | Wallis and Futuna | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 9 |  Solomon Islands | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 |  American Samoa | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| 11 |  Cook Islands | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 12 |  New Hebrides | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Gilbert and Ellis Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
 Nauru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 117 | 117 | 125 | 359 | |
Notes
^a Cycling: Six events were held: 1 km time trial, individual road race (111 km), 74 km road race, 4 km individual pursuit, 4 km Olympic pursuit, and an individual sprint.[5]
^b The sailing event was for the Fireball dinghy class.[6]
^c The women's softball tournament was won by Guam, with Papua New Guinea and American Samoa taking second and third place respectively,[5] although the Oceania Sport Information Centre report (on their Sporting Pulse webpage as at October 2015) omits the result.[4]
References
- 1 2 "South Pacific Games 1971 - Tahiti". Pacific Games Council. 11 October 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Islanders arrive for Pacific Games". The Canberra Times. 9 September 1971. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ↑ "Games predictions – Papua New Guinea –". Pacific Islands Monthly. Pacific Publications. 1971. p. 133. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- 1 2 SPG Results 1971.
- 1 2 "South Pacific Games, Results of Tahiti Games (Part 2)". Pacific Islands Monthly. Pacific Publications. 42 (3): 39. 1971. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ↑ Ian A. Forbes (9 May 2003). "History of the Rarotonga Sailing Club". Sports Pulse.
Sources
- 1971 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.