1971 South Pacific Games

4th edition of the South Pacific Games 1971 South Pacific Games 1971_South_Pacific_Games_logo.png 168px Papeete Tahiti 14 ~2,000 17 sports 1971 08 25 1971 09 05 Pierre Messmer 1969 Port Moresby 1975 Tamuning The 4th South Pacific Games (fr 4e Jeux du Pacifique sud; ty A 4 o te Ha‘utira‘a no Pātifita), also known as Papeete 1971 (ty Papeʻete 1971), held in Papeete, Tahiti from 25 August to 5 September 1971, was the fourth edition of the South Pacific Games. Approximately 1,500 male athletes and 500 female athletes participated in the games. Participating countries Fourteen Pacific nations or territories competed at the Games: 17em American Samoa New Zealand Cook Islands (70) Fiji 1970 French Polynesia 1946 24px Gilbert and Ellice Islands Guam Nauru New Caledonia 1853 (200+) New Hebrides 1966 Papua New Guinea 1970 Papua and New Guinea (132) Solomon Islands 1956 Tonga Wallis and Futuna Western Samoa Western Samoa 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:SPG Results 1971 15em Archery 2 m Athletics 35 Basketball 2 Boxing 11 m Cycling 6 mcycling a Football 1 Golf 2 m Judo 6 m Rugby union 1 Sailing 1 msailing b Softball 1 msoftball c Swimming 1 m Table tennis 7 m Tennis 7 m Underwater fishing 2 m Volleyball 2 m Weightlifting 8 m 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: 33 32 27 NCL 1853 28 28 21 PNG 1970 22 24 24 PYF 1946 16 17 13 FIJ 1970 9 3 5 4 3 4 2 3 8 2 1 6 1 2 2 SOL 1956 0 2 12 0 1 3 NZL Cook Islands (COK) 0 1 0 New Hebrides 1966 0 0 0 Gilbert and Ellice Islands yes 0 0 0 yes Notes cycling 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. sailing b The sailing event was for the Fireball dinghy class. softball cThe women's softball tournament was won by Guam, with Papua New Guinea and American Samoa taking second and third place respectively, although the Oceania Sport Information Centre report (on their Sporting Pulse webpage as at October 2015) omits the result.SPG Results 1971 References 25em 9 September 1971 Islanders arrive for Pacific Games The Canberra Times http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110676548 22 May 2015 9 May 2003 Ian A. Forbes History of the Rarotonga Sailing Club Sports Pulse http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=2-1124-0-0-0&sID=13548&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=37097 1971 Games predictions – Papua New Guinea – Pacific Islands Monthly 42 9 133 Pacific Publications 14 July 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=0-tyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22team%20of%20132%22 1971 South Pacific Games, Results of Tahiti Games Pacific Islands Monthly 42 10 39 Pacific Publications 14 July 2015 https://pacific-games.neocities.org/Results/1971%20South%20Pacific%20Games%20results.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20171013085033/https://pacific-games.neocities.org/Results/1971%20South%20Pacific%20Games%20results.pdf 13 October 2017 11 October 2010 South Pacific Games 1971 - Tahiti Pacific Games Council 15 May 2015 http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=2-2642-0-0-0&sID=24032&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=68542 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150418175006/http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=2-2642-0-0-0&sID=24032&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=68542 18 April 2015 Sources 1971 South Pacific Games Results Oceania Sport Information Centre 28 October 2015 http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3796035 live https://web.archive.org/web/20151028122905/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3796035 28 October 2015 SPG Results 1971 Category:Pacific Games by year Pacific Games Pacific Games Category:1970s in French Polynesia Category:1971 in the French colonial empire Category:International sports competitions hosted by French Polynesia Category:Sports competitions in Tahiti South Pacific Games South Pacific Games