Swimming at the 2007 South Pacific Games

The swimming competition at the 2007 South Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa was held:

• pool: August 27-September 1 at the Samoa Aquatic Centre in the Faleata Sports Complex; and
• open water: Monday, September 3 at the Aggie Grey's Complex, in Faleolo.

Swimming at the 2007 South Pacific Games
Location	Apia, Samoa
Dates	27 August – 3 September 2007
← 2003 2011 →

All pool events were swum in a long-course (50m) pool; the open water events were 5-kilometres in length (5K).

Event schedule

Date	Mon. Aug. 27	Tue. Aug. 28	Wed. Aug. 29	Thu. Aug. 30	Fri. Aug. 31	Sat. Sep. 1
E v e n t s	50 back (M) 100 free (W) 100 breast (M) 400 I.M. (F) 200 free (M) 4x200 Free Relay (W)	50 back (W) 100 fly (M) 200 free (W) 400 I.M. (M) 200 breast (W) 4x200 Free Relay (M)	50 breast (W) 50 breast (M) 400 free (W) 100 free (M) 100 back (W) 200 back (M) 4x100 Free Relay (W)	400 free (M) 100 fly (W) 50 fly (M) 100 breast (W) 200 breast (M) 800 free (W) 4x100 Free Relay (M)	50 free (M) 200 I.M. (W) 200 fly (M) 50 fly (W) 100 back (M) 4x100 Medley Relay (W)	200 fly (W) 200 I.M. (M) 50 free (W) 1500 free (M) 200 back (W) 4x100 Medley Relay (M)

Monday, September 3: men's and women's 5,000m Open Water swim.

Note: The 2007 swimming event schedule is the same as that of the 2003 South Pacific Games, save the nomenclature change on the relays from "400" to "4x100" and "800" to "4x200".

Results

Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini dominate the men's competition, winning eight individual gold medals.^[1] In the women's competition, Lara Grangeon from New Caledonia won seven individual gold medals (including the open water swim) and two more gold in the relays.^[1]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Gilles Dumesnil (NCL)	23.37  GR	Ryan Pini (PNG)	23.53	David Thevenot (NCL)	23.94
100m Freestyle	Ryan Pini (PNG)	50.80  GR	David Thevenot (NCL)	51.90	Christopher Duenas (GUM)	52.28
200m Freestyle	Ryan Pini (PNG)	1:50.72  GR	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	1:54.63	David Thevenot (NCL)	1:55.96
400m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	4:04.92  GR	Ryan Pini (PNG)	4:11.37	Thomas Chacun (NCL)	4:13.13
1500m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	17:03.21	Thomas Chacun (NCL)	17:23.28	Heimanu Sichan (TAH)	17:30.56
50m Backstroke	Ryan Pini (PNG)	26.78	Laurent Douarche (NCL)	29.03	Julien Pierre Goyetche (NCL)	29.32
100m Backstroke	Ryan Pini (PNG)	56.96	Julien Pierre Goyetche (NCL)	1:02.17	Laurent Douarche (NCL)	1:03.79
200m Backstroke	Ryan Pini (PNG)	2:12.16	Julien Pierre Goyetche (NCL)	2:17.26	Heimanu Sichan (TAH)	2:18.82
50m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia (TAH)	29.35  GR	Stéphane Debaere (TAH)	30.17	Thomas Dahlia (NCL)	30.77
100m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia (TAH)	1:05.11  GR	Thomas Dahlia (NCL)	1:06.62	Stéphane Debaere (TAH)	1:06.95
200m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia (TAH)	2:23.58	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	2:23.71	Thomas Dahlia (NCL)	2:26.61
50m Butterfly	Ryan Pini (PNG)	24.55  GR	David Thevenot (NCL)	25.57	Julien Monot (NCL)	26.33
100m Butterfly	Ryan Pini (PNG)	53.46  GR	Thomas Chacun (NCL)	57.91	Laurent Douarche (NCL)	58.40
200m Butterfly	Thomas Chacun (NCL)	2:09.36	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	2:09.43	Julien Monot (NCL)	2:26.79
200m I.M.	Ryan Pini (PNG)	2:06.22  GR	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	2:07.27	Thomas Dahlia (NCL)	2:15.15
400m I.M.[2]	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	4:40.62	Jean L'Huillier (NCL)	4:53.07	Thomas Dahlia (NCL)	4:54.55
4 × 100 m Free Relay	New Caledonia   David Thevenot   Gilles Dumesnil   Thomas Dahlia   Olivier Saminadin	3:31.25  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Tamatoa Cowan   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	3:37.09	Guam   Carlos Shimizu   Hernand Bonsembiante   Lucas Shimizu   Christopher Duenas	3:45.97
4 × 200 m Free Relay	New Caledonia   Thomas Chacun   David Thevenot   Olivier Saminadin   Thomas Dahlia	7:57.20  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Tamatoa Cowan   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	8:11.89	Guam   Carols Shimizu   Hernand Bonsembiante   Lucas Shimizu   Christopher Duenas	8:30.70
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	New Caledonia   Olivier Saminadin   Thomas Dahlia   Thomas Chacun   David Thevenot	3:56.58  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Rainui Teriipaia   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	4:01.37	Samoa   Dane Chang   Chanel Silao   Akmal Khan   Joshua Marfleet	4:18.90
5K Open Water	Olivier Saminadin (NCL)	1:05:43	Stéphane Debaere (TAH)	1:06:42	Thomas Chacun (NCL)	1:08:30

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	26.37   GR	Armelle Hidrio (NCL)	27.30	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane (PNG)	27.34
100m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	57.20   GR	Reine-Victoria Weber (NCL)	58.80	Armelle Hidrio (NCL)	59.37
200m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	2:08.87   GR	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane (PNG)	2:11.61	Delphine Bui Duyet (NCL)	2:12.57
400m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	4:31.96   GR	Delphine Bui Duyet (NCL)	4:45.36	Emma Hunter (SAM) Samoa	4:47.93
800m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	9:15.17   GR	Coralie Williams (NCL)	9:56.72	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	10:07.65
50m Backstroke	Diane Bui Duyet (NCL)	30.42	Rine-Victoria Weber (NCL)	30.55	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	30.91
100m Backstroke	Reine-Victoria Weber (NCL)	1:03.50   GR	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	1:07.12	Nyitrue Simon (NCL)	1:09.31
200m Backstroke	Reine-Victoria Weber (NCL)	2:20.91   GR	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	2:28.34	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	2:42.23
50m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams (NCL)	34.00   GR	Rachel Ah Koy (FIJ)	35.12	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	35.84
100m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams (NCL)	1:13.69   GR	Rachel Ah Koy (FIJ)	1:16.46	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	1:17.35
200m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams (NCL)	2:46.00	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	2:46.56	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	2:52.36
50m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet (NCL)	27.51   GR	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	28.51   NR	Reine-Victoria Weber (NCL)	28.88
100m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet (NCL)	1:01.30   GR	Caroline Pickering (FIJ)	1:03.65   NR	Nyitrue Simon (NCL)	1:05.44
200m Butterfly	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	2:27.80	Nyitrue Simon (NCL)	2:34.18	Coralie Williams (NCL)	2:40.73
200m I.M.	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	2:25.24   GR	Rachel Ah Koy (FIJ)	2:26.96	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane (PNG)	2:29.44
400m I.M	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	5:05.72   GR	Coralie Williams (NCL)	5:22.95	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	5:23.34
4 × 100 m   Free Relay	New Caledonia   Diane Bui Duyet   Armelle Hidrio   Reine-Victoria Weber   Lara Grangeon	4:01.72   GR	Tahiti   Dorinda Clark   Heretahi Guennegues   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane	4:27.36	none
4 × 200 m   Free Relay	New Caledonia   Diane Bui Duyet   Delphine Bui Duyet   Reine-Victoria Weber   Lara Grangeon	8:51.41   GR	Tahiti   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane   Dorinda Clark   Crystal Laughlin	9:46.75	none
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay	New Caledonia   Reine-Victoria Weber   Adeline Williams   Diane Bui Duyet   Armelle Hidrio	4:23.99   GR	Tahiti   Crystal Laughlin   Heretahi Guennegues   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane	5:07.20	none
5K Open Water   (time= hr:min:sec)	Lara Grangeon (NCL)	1:09:39	Emma Hunter (SAM) Samoa	1:15:26	Melissa Carpin (NCL)	1:15:37

Participating countries

125 swimmers from 10 countries were entered in the swimming events at the 2007 Games—a record—with Tokelau and the Marshall Islands participating in the SPG Swimming events for the first time.^[3] Countries entered in the swimming competition are:

•  American Samoa
•  Fiji
•  Guam
•  New Caledonia
•  Marshall Islands
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Tahiti
•  Tokelau

Notes

1. SPG Results 2007, pp. 47–55.
2. There were only 3 entrants in the men's 400 IM, so the 3 medalists represent the full results for the event.
3. Record Entries for Swimming, 2007 South Pacific Games website. Published 2007-05-29, retrieved 2009-07-06.

Sources

• 2007 South Pacific Games Results. Oceania Sport Information Centre (Report). Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.

External links

• 2007 South Pacific Games — Swimming website; retrieved 2009-07-06.