2017 Pacific Mini Games

The 2017 Pacific Mini Games were held in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in December 2017. It was the tenth edition of the Pacific Mini Games, and the second to be hosted in Vanuatu (after the 1993 games).

X Pacific Mini Games

Host city	Port Vila, Vanuatu
Motto	One Ocean, One People
Nations	24
Athletes	2000
Events	172 in 14 sports
Opening	4 December
Closing	15 December
Opened by	Tallis Obed Moses
Main venue	Korman Stadium
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Host selection

Vanuatu was awarded the right to host the games at a September 2011 meeting of the Pacific Games Council's General Assembly. Nauru and the Northern Mariana Islands were the other countries to bid. The event was originally planned for September 2017 but preparations were delayed by Cyclone Pam.^[1][2]

Both rounds of voting took place on the 4 September 2011 with Nauru eliminated after the first round. In the final round, Vanuatu edged Northern Mariana Islands by 4 votes to earn hosting rights.^[3]

2017 Pacific Mini Games bidding results
City	Country	Round 1	Round 2
Port Vila	Vanuatu	8	13
Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	8	9
Yaren	Nauru	6	—

Venues

Choir at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila.

^[4][5]

• Korman Sports Complex
  • Archery field - Archery
  • Stadium - Athletics, Football, Rugby sevens, Opening and closing ceremonies
  • Indoor Hall 1 - Boxing, Table tennis
  • Indoor Hall 2 - Basketball 3×3, Judo, Karate, Netball
  • Beach Volleyball Courts - Beach Volleyball
  • Tennis courts - Tennis
• Mele Golf Course - Golf
• Port Vila Municipal Stadium - Football
• Epauto Adventist High School -Weightlifting

Participating nations

There were 24 national teams that competed at the games:

•  American Samoa
•  Australia
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Guam
•  Kiribati
•  Marshall Islands
•  Federated States of Micronesia
• New Caledonia
•  New Zealand
•  Nauru
•  Niue
•  Norfolk Island
•  Northern Mariana Islands
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tokelau
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu
• Wallis and Futuna
• Independent PGC athletes ^*

Medal table

The final medal tally for the 2017 Pacific Mini Games.

  *   Host nation (Vanuatu)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Caledonia	46	16	20	82
2	Papua New Guinea	32	32	21	85
3	Fiji	23	31	24	78
4	Vanuatu*	22	26	27	75
5	Samoa	20	16	10	46
6	Solomon Islands	8	11	18	37
7	Tonga	4	4	12	20
8	Cook Islands	4	4	5	13
9	Kiribati	3	5	4	12
10	Marshall Islands	3	0	0	3
11	New Zealand	2	7	0	9
12	Wallis and Futuna	2	3	3	8
13	Independent PGC athletes *	2	1	0	3
14	Nauru	1	9	15	25
15	Guam	0	1	1	2
	Tuvalu	0	1	1	2
17	Australia	0	0	2	2
18	American Samoa	0	0	1	1
	Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	1	1
	Tokelau	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		172	167	166	505

Sports

Fourteen sports were hosted:^[6]

•  3-on-3 basketball (2) (details)
•  Archery (6) (details)
•  Athletics (47) (details) ^a
•  Beach volleyball (2) (details)
•  Boxing (10) (details)
•  Football (2) (details)
•  Golf (4) (details)
•  Judo (15) (details)
•  Karate (16) (details)
•  Netball (1) (details)
•  Rugby sevens (1) (details)
•  Table tennis (11) (details) ^b
•  Tennis (7) (details)
•  Weightlifting (48) (details)

Note: A number in parentheses indicates the number of medal events that were contested in each sport, where known.

Archery

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual recurve	Robert Elder  Fiji	Danick Aisik  Vanuatu	Arne Jansen  Tonga [7]
Women's individual recurve	Isabelle Vermande  New Caledonia	Jil Grete Walter  Samoa	Isabelle Soero  New Caledonia[8]
Mixed team recurve	New Caledonia Denis Moedjijo Isabelle Soero	Samoa Joseph Walter Jil Grete Walter	Tonga Arne Jansen Karoline Tatafu
Men's individual compound	Henry Shiu  New Caledonia	Frederick Leota  Fiji	Xavier Mangoen  New Caledonia
Women's individual compound	Cecile Picot  New Caledonia	Lisa Leota  Fiji	[9]
Mixed team compound	New Caledonia Henry Shiu Cecile Picot	Fiji Lisa Leota Frederick Leota	[10]

Boxing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight 49 kg	Namry Berry  Vanuatu	Tetekana Clinton  Solomon Islands	[11]
Flyweight 52 kg	Kalai Gill  Vanuatu	Keama Charkes Feama  Papua New Guinea	Mika Alex  Solomon Islands [12]
Bantamweight 56 kg	Warawara Boe  Vanuatu	Cook Yachen  Nauru	Noki Beupu  Papua New Guinea
			Iiaha Denis Moses  Solomon Islands
Lightweight 60 kg	Nu'uuli Mose  Samoa	Silas Johnny  Vanuatu	Oaike Allan Aukoae  Papua New Guinea
			Kia Henry  Solomon Islands
Light welterweight 64 kg	Sere Roy  Vanuatu	Ume John  Papua New Guinea	Babanisi Gerrard  Solomon Islands
			Davule Jone  Fiji
Welterweight 69 kg	Moleni John Barry Slade  Tonga	Aisaga Andrew Kape  Papua New Guinea	Hill Winston  Fiji
			Fandaux Than Guy  New Caledonia
Middleweight 75 kg	Sivas Lui  Vanuatu	Sua Ropati  Samoa	Kometa Andrew  Kiribati
			Drayton Sabastien  New Caledonia
Light heavyweight 81 kg	Henry Tyrell  Samoa	Jubiely Torea Independent PGC athletes	Waritam Robert Zorro  Vanuatu
			Tameifuna Mercy Sione  Tonga
Heavyweight 91 kg	Heimata Neuffer Independent PGC athletes	Peneueta John  Samoa	Missak Tuk  Vanuatu
			Kami Talamoni Clayton  Tonga
Super heavyweight +91 kg	Atiu Amoroa Independent PGC athletes	Robin Peter  Vanuatu	Aukoso Faamanu  Samoa
			Tusamoa Jean  New Caledonia

Golf

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[13]	Guillaume Castagne  New Caledonia	Abid Hussain  Fiji	Morgan Annato  Papua New Guinea
Women's individual[14]	Emillie Ricaud  New Caledonia	Rotana Howard  Cook Islands	Mathilde Guepy  New Caledonia
Men's team[15]	New Caledonia Guillaume Castagne Morgan Dufour Anthony Cuer Norman Bonnet	Papua New Guinea Morgan Annato Vagi James Philip Mek Justin Brunskill	Fiji Abid Hussain Olaf Allen Won Hwang Ryan Kumar
Women's team	New Caledonia Emillie Ricaud Mathilde Guepy Maiwen Delamarie-le Blevic Ines Lavelua	Papua New Guinea Kristine Seko Wari Winchcombe Natalie Mok Danae Clamp	Fiji Merelita McCarthy Jee Dawi Raina Kumar Ufemia Naisara

Judo

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 60 kg	Tony Lomo  Solomon Islands	Charles Cure  New Caledonia	Loic Michel Nasse  Vanuatu
Men's 66 kg	Kaieura Kip  Nauru	Joe Mahit  Vanuatu	Claude Kalo  Vanuatu
			Ugo Langois  New Caledonia
Men's 73 kg	Vincent Neris  New Caledonia	Tom Willie  Vanuatu	Ilai Ualesi Elekana Manu  Tokelau
Men's 81 kg	William Fayard  New Caledonia	Vincent Burani  New Caledonia	Pandabela Lesley  Solomon Islands
Men's 90 kg	Teva Gouriou  New Caledonia	Ovini Uera  Nauru	Nicolas Monvoisin  Vanuatu
			Feao Fakaosi  Tonga
Men's 100 kg	David Put  New Caledonia	not awarded	not awarded
Men's +100 kg	Finetuui Moala  Tonga	Sailosi Fua Ealelei  Tonga	Nazario Martin Fiakaifonu  Vanuatu
Men's open lightweight	Vincent Neris  New Caledonia	Ugo Langois  New Caledonia	Kaierua Kip  Nauru
			Charles Cure  New Caledonia
Men's open heavyweight	Teva Gouriou  New Caledonia	Sailosi Fua Ealelei  Tonga	William Fayard  New Caledonia
			Finetuui Moala  Tonga
Women's 52 kg	Chloe Omo-Perraut  New Caledonia	not awarded	not awarded
Women's 57 kg	Jaycee Brival  New Caledonia	not awarded	not awarded
Women's 63 kg	Camille Geniau  New Caledonia	Nathalyn Takayawa  Fiji	Emeline Kaddour  New Caledonia
Women's 70 kg	Shanice Takayawa  Fiji	not awarded	not awarded
Women's open lightweight	Jaycee Brival  New Caledonia	Chloe Omo-Perraut  New Caledonia	not awarded
Women's open heavyweight	Shanice Takayawa  Fiji	Emeline Kaddour  New Caledonia	Aykesa Atuvaha  New Caledonia
			Esther Dumons  New Caledonia

Karate

Kata

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[19]	Vu Duc Minh Dack  New Caledonia	Tumu Lango  Vanuatu	not awarded
Women's individual [20]	Laura Rothery  New Caledonia	Vamule Vassy Mata Lango  Vanuatu	Crystal Elizabeth Raka Mari  Papua New Guinea
Men's team [21]	New Caledonia Vu Duc Minh Dack Jean Emmanuel Faure Kevyn Pognon	Vanuatu Tumu Lango Trevor Naieu Freddy Wilson	not awarded
Women's team	New Caledonia Angelique Mondoloni Laura Rothery Juliette Schmidt	Vanuatu Vamule Vassy Mata Lango Winona Lango Augustine Yalou	not awarded

Kumite

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 60 kg	Jaremy Di Matteo  New Caledonia	Joshua Iauko  Vanuatu	Everest Foetaa Ega  Solomon Islands
			Nigel Bana  Papua New Guinea
Men's 67 kg	Jean-Emmanuel Faure  New Caledonia	Paul Henry Iauko  Vanuatu	Frengy Bisoka  Solomon Islands
Men's 75 kg	Philippe Annonier  New Caledonia	Jasper Samo  Solomon Islands	Tumu Lango  Vanuatu
Men's 84 kg	Stephane Breton  Vanuatu	Vincent Quentin Bougen  Papua New Guinea	Dylan Agamalu  New Caledonia
			Siosi Tafoa Junior  Solomon Islands
Men's +84 kg	Jonathan Dedieu  New Caledonia	Petelo Perkon Peato  Vanuatu	not awarded
Men's open	Iwe Rene Hmana  New Caledonia	Nigel Bana  Papua New Guinea	Siosi Tagoa Junior  Solomon Islands
			Trevor Naieu  Vanuatu
Men's team	New Caledonia Dylan Agamalu Mathieu Annonier Philippe Annonier Jonathan Dedieu Jean-Emmanuel Faure Lucien Haiu Iwe Rene Hmana Kevyn Pognon	Vanuatu Petelo Perkon Peato Tumu Lango Cliford Bule Reynold Noukout Stephane Breton Christopher Olule Gely Robert Pakoa	Papua New Guinea Cosmas Walihl Sallawali Nigel Bana Vincent Quentin Bougen
			Solomon Islands Siosi Tafoa Junior Kenihiria Rex Jasper Samo Frengy Bisoka Everest Foetaa Ega
Women's 61 kg	Vamule Vassy Mata Lango  Vanuatu	Crystal Elizabeth Raka Mari  Papua New Guinea	not awarded
Women's 68 kg	Aurore Vaysset  New Caledonia	Augustine Yalou  Vanuatu	Janet Lydia Gwai  Solomon Islands
Women's +68 kg	Romina Rambans  New Caledonia	Lynn Tari  Vanuatu	not awarded
Women's open	Morane Vacher  New Caledonia	Crystal Elizabeth Raka Mari  Papua New Guinea	Winona Lango  Vanuatu
Women's team	New Caledonia Romina Rambans Morane Vacher Aurore Vaysset	Vanuatu Vamule Vassy Mata Lango Winona Lango Lynn Tari Augustine Yalou	not awarded

Rugby sevens

^[22][23][24]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Samoa (SAM)	Fiji (FIJ)	Tonga (TGA)

Calendar

The following table provides a summary of the competition schedule.^[25]

December 2017	2nd Sat	3rd Sun	4th Mon	5th Tue	6th Wed	7th Thu	8th Fri	9th Sat	10th Sun	11th Mon	12th Tue	13th Wed	14th Thu	15th Fri	Gold medals
Ceremonies			OC											CC
3-on-3 basketball										●	●	●	2		2
Archery											●	2	4		6
Athletics										9	11	11	16		47
Beach volleyball					●	●	●			●	●	●	●	2	2
Boxing										●	●	●	●	10	10
Football	●		●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	1	1	2
Golf					●	●	●	4							4
Judo				●	7	8									15
Karate							10	6							16
Netball												●	●	1	1
Rugby sevens							●	1							1
Table tennis			●	●	2	●	1	8							11
Tennis			●	●	●	2	●	●		●	●	3	2	●	7
Weightlifting				18	15	15									48
Total gold medals	0	0	0	18	24	25	11	19	0	9	11	16	25	14	172
Cumulative total	0	0	0	18	42	67	77	97	97	106	117	133	158	172

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

●

Commonwealth Games qualifying

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

Notes

^* No official Tahiti team took part in the 2017 Mini Games following the French Polynesian government's decision to boycott the event. A number of Tahitian athletes competed under the banner of the Pacific Games Council.^[26]

^a Athletics included four parasport events: men's 100m – ambulatory; men's javelin – ambulatory; men's shot put – seated; and women's shot put – ambulatory.

^b Table tennis to include four parasport events: men's/women's singles – seated; and men's/women's singles – ambulatory.^[27]

References

1. "Sport: Officials confident 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu remain on track". Radio New Zealand. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
2. "Start date for 2017 Mini Games in Vanuatu pushed back", Radio New Zealand, 21 January 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
3. "2017 Pacific Mini Games: Vanuatu Wins!", Pacific Games Council. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
4. "Spectator Guide" (PDF).
5. Schedule
6. Vanuatu Bid, pp. 10–11.
7. Silver in archery warmly received
8. Father and daughter shooting for the stars
9. Archers Impress Team Fiji Boss
10. Archery
11. Boxing
12. "Medalists" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
13. "Men result Golf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
14. "Women result Golf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
15. "Golf".
16. Judo Results
17. "Judo 1" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
18. Judo 2
19. Karate
20. Women's kata
21. "Male team kata" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
22. Rugby 7 results
23. Rugby Gold
24. Rugby bronze
25. "Sports Schedule". Van2017.com. 2017. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
26. "Tahiti athletes to compete under neutral banner". The Vanuatu Independent. 1 December 2017. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
27. "ONOC Chef de Mission Presentation". Sports TG. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2015.

Sources

• Charter - Constitution, Code of Conduct, Protocols, and Regulations adopted Apia, Samoa 14 May 2006 - As amended most recently in Wallis Island, 19 October 2012 (PDF 0.3 MB) (Report). Pacific Games Council. 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2013.

• Bid to host the Pacific Mini Games 2017 (PDF 6.0 MB) (Report). Government of the Republic of Vanuatu. 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Result system