1989 South Pacific Mini Games

1989 Pacific Mini Games 1989_South_Pacific_Mini_Games_logo.png 168px Nuku'alofa Tonga 16 832 1989 08 22 1989 09 01 King Taufa’ahau Tepou IV Teufaiva Sport Stadium 1985 Rarotonga 1993 Port Vila The 1989 South Pacific Mini Games were held at Nuku'alofa in Tonga from 22 August to 1 September 1989. It was the third edition of the South Pacific Mini Games. Tonga's national stadium, the Teufaiva Sport Stadium, was built for the Games on the previous site of the agricultural showgrounds. The stadium, new Atele gymnasium, and tennis courts, were built or refurbished with the aid of Taiwan and France. The venues were eventually completed just in time for the games following some controversy in the preceding months with the construction alarmingly behind schedule. Participating countries Sixteen Pacific nations participated in the Games: 17em American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji 1970 French Polynesia 1946, "Tahiti" Guam Nauru New Caledonia 1853 Niue Norfolk Island Northern Marianas Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna Western Samoa Western Samoa Note: A number in parentheses indicate the size of a country's team (where known). Sports The six sports contested at the 1989 South Pacific Mini Games were: 19em Athletics 40 Boxing 12 mboxing a Golf 4 mgolf b 17em Netball 1 mnetball c Tennis 5 m Weightlifting mweightlift d Note: A number in parentheses indicates how many medal events were contested in that sport (where known). Final medal table Western Samoa topped the medal count: 27 6 3 20 20 20 PYF 1946 15 17 15 NCL 1853 14 17 15 5 7 12 3 0 0 2 13 13 2 5 10 2 2 2 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 See also Athletics at the 1989 South Pacific Mini Games Notes boxing a Western Samoa won six gold medals in the boxing competition that captured the local people's imagination – as reported by Pacific islands Monthly, "it seemed half of Nuku'alof was crammed into the indoor stadium".Reflections 1989 49, col. 1, par. 2 golf b Golf: Fiji, captained by Adi Sainimili Tuivanuavou, won the women's team bronze at the 1989 South Pacific Mini Games. netball c Netball: Cook Islands won the competition, defeating PNG by 53–49 in the final. Fiji did not play in the tournament.Reflections 1989 49, col. 3, par. 3 weightlif d Nauru's 18-year-old Marcus Stephens broke all three South Pacific Games records in the 60 kg weightlifting class.Reflections 1989 49, col. 3, par. 2 References 25em 2011 Niko Besnier On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation 183 Stanford University Press, 2 Mar 2011 23 May 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-_gKFv7-zEC&pg=PA183 978-0804777643 1989 Third South Pacific Mini Games International Olympic Committee Olympic Review 112 27 May 2015 PDF 0.2 MB http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1990/ore268/ore268y.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150527160316/http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1990/ore268/ore268y.pdf 27 May 2015 1989 Carrie Loranger Rushing for the games Pacific Islands Monthly 59 19 48 Pacific Publications 23 May 2015 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340360417/view?sectionId=nla.obj-344644156&partId=nla.obj-340378065#page/n47/mode/1up 2012 Golf in Fiji will farewell Adi Sai National Golf Association of Fiji sportingpulse http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-1396-0-0-0&sID=14276&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=21383567 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150527184546/http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-1396-0-0-0&sID=14276&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=21383567 2015-05-27 2013 Medals Won at Mini Games Pacific Games Council 15 May 2015 http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-2642-0-0-0&sID=24022 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150418192040/http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-2642-0-0-0&sID=24022 18 April 2015 Sources 1989 Reflections on a mini event Pacific Islands Monthly 59 21 48–49 27 October 2017 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340371539/view?sectionId=nla.obj-350459855&partId=nla.obj-340393062#page/n47/mode/1up Reflections 1989 collapsed Category:Pacific Games by year Pacific Games Pacific Games Category:1989 in Tongan sport Category:International sports competitions hosted by Tonga Pacific Mini Games Pacific Mini Games