2014 Micronesian Games

Multi-sport competition VIII Micronesian Games 2014 Micronesian Games logo.png 280 px Pohnpei FSM 10 14 sports 2014 07 20 2014 07 30 2010 Koror 2018 Yap The 8th Micronesian Games were held from July 20 to July 30, 2014, in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).http://www.microgames.fm/index.php Official website 9 September 2016 https://archive.today/20140721222042/http://www.microgames.fm/index.php 2014-07-21 dead The Games began with an opening ceremony on the track and field grounds. They included "traditional war dances", and the unfurling of the Games flag in the air as it was delivered by parachute."Micro Games Opening Ceremony Attracts The People Of Pohnpei" https://web.archive.org/web/20140808053809/http://www.microgames.fm/index.php/news-updates/item/791-micro-games-opening-ceremony-attracts-the-people-of-pohnpei 2014-08-08 , official website At the closing of the Games, Guam had topped the medal table with eighty-one medals, of which forty-two were gold."Team Guam tops medal tally", Guam National Olympic Committee, 30 July 2014 Participating countries All Micronesian nations, states and territories participated in the Games. The host country was represented by four teams, one for each of its federated states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap. The other participants included four independent countries (Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau) and two unincorporated organised territories of the United States: the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. The 2014 Games were the second hosted by the FSM, the 2002 Games having also taken place in Pohnpei State. The scheduling of the Games conflicted with the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which began on 23 July. Two Micronesian countries, Kiribati and Nauru, are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and thus had to split their athletes between the two events, both of which they were participating in. (See Kiribati at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Nauru at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.)"Record sports programme for Micronesian Games", Radio New Zealand International, 18 July 2014 Sports Participants competed in fourteen sports, reportedly a record. The tournament included football, which had also been played in the 1998 edition,https://www.rsssf.org/tablesm/micronesia98.html Micronesian Games 1998 9 September 2016 with the explicit aim for some of the teams to improve their credentials and gain associate member status with FIFA. At the time of the Games, the only Micronesian country or territory to be a member of FIFA was Guam.FIFA Associations (accessed on 20 July 2014) The sports were: athletics, baseball, basketball, football, the "Micronesian all-around", softball, spearfishing, swimming, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, va'a (canoeing), weightlifting, and wrestling. For results by sport, see: Athletics at the 2014 Micronesian Games Spearfishing Spearfishing at the Micronesian Games Individualhttps://websites.mygameday.app/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-10460-0-0-0&sID=332460 Results - 2014 Micronesian Games - Spearfishing GameDay September 8, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240908104637/https://websites.mygameday.app/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-10460-0-0-0&sID=332460 September 8, 2024 live Clint Madracheluib PLW Ray Flores GUM Moy Shmull PLW Team James BorjaMike Cassidy Clint MadracheluibMoy Shmull PohnpeiCharles TomTaylor Paul Medal table The final medal table was as follows. Only Kiribati failed to obtain any medals.Medal tableSeptember 2016 InternetArchiveBot yes , The Fourth Branch flagcountry 42 27 12 36 41 37 Pohnpei Pohnpei 36 31 38 34 23 33 17 23 15 Yap Yap 14 15 5 4 3 11 Kosrae Kosrae 3 9 5 3 4 9 Chuuk Chuuk References Micro Micronesian Games 2014 Micro Category:International sports competitions hosted by the Federated States of Micronesia Category:July 2014 sports events in Oceania