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The 4th South Pacific Games (French: 4e Jeux du Pacifique sud; Tahitian: A 4 o te Ha‘utira‘a no Pātifita), also known as Papeete 1971 (Tahitian: Papeʻete 1971), held in Papeete, Tahiti from 25 August to 5 September 1971, was the fourth edition of the South Pacific Games.[1]
Host city | Papeete |
---|---|
Country | Tahiti |
Nations | 14 |
Athletes | ~2,000 |
Events | 17 sports |
Opening | August 25, 1971 |
Closing | September 5, 1971 |
Opened by | Pierre Messmer |
Approximately 1,500 male athletes and 500 female athletes participated in the games.[2]
Fourteen Pacific nations or territories competed at the Games:[2]
There were 17 sports contested at the 1971 South Pacific Games:[4][2]
Medals were awarded in 117 events:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | New Caledonia (NCL) | 33 | 32 | 27 | 92 |
2 | Papua New Guinea (PNG) | 28 | 28 | 21 | 77 |
3 | French Polynesia (PYF) | 22 | 24 | 24 | 70 |
4 | Fiji (FIJ) | 16 | 17 | 13 | 46 |
5 | Western Samoa (WSM) | 9 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
6 | Tonga (TON) | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
7 | Guam (GUM) | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 |
8 | Wallis and Futuna (WLF) | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
9 | Solomon Islands (SOL) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
10 | American Samoa (ASA) | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
11 | Cook Islands (COK) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
12 | New Hebrides | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
– | Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
– | Nauru (NRU) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals (12 entries) | 117 | 117 | 125 | 359 |
^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]
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