2013 Pacific Mini Games

The 2013 Pacific Mini Games was the ninth edition of these Games. They were held in Mata Utu, Wallis and Futuna, Territory of France, from 2 to 12 September 2013.

IX Pacific Mini Games

Host city	Mata Utu
Country	/ Wallis and Futuna
Motto	Pasifika Lena, Pasifika Pe'ia (French: Le Pacifique Autrement, Le Pacifique Simplement) (English: The Pacific Otherwise, Simply ... the Pacific)
Nations participating	22
Events	99 in 8 sports
Opening ceremony	September 2, 2013 (2013-09-02)
Closing ceremony	September 12, 2013 (2013-09-12)
Officially opened by	François Hollande
Main venue	Kafika Stadium

Participating countries and territories

• List of countries and territories that attended at the 2013 Pacific Mini Games

•  American Samoa
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Guam
•  Kiribati
•  Marshall Islands
•  Federated States of Micronesia
•  New Caledonia
•  Nauru
•  Niue
•  Norfolk Island
•  Northern Mariana Islands
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tahiti
•  Tokelau
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu [1]
• Wallis and Futuna

* Note: The Marshall Islands team returned to compete at these Games after not participating in the 2009 Pacific Mini Games.

Sports

Eight sports were contested for these Games.[2] Number of events for each sport is in brackets.

Athletics (47) () Beach volleyball (2) () Rugby sevens (1) () Sailing (6) ()

Taekwondo (15) () Outrigger canoe (Va'a) (12) () Volleyball (2) () Weightlifting (14) ()

Venues

• Stade de Mata-Utu (also named as Stade de Kafika) – opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and rugby sevens
• Kolopelu Place (Futuna Island) - beach volleyball
• Kafika Hall – taekwondo, volleyball, and weightlifting
• Bay of Gahi (beside the village of Gahi on Wallis Island) - va'a (outrigger canoe)
• Tekaviki Island (northeast from Mata-Utu on Wallis Island) – sailing

Calendar

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Event finals

MC

Medal ceremony

CC

Closing ceremony

September 2013	2nd Mon	3rd Tue	4th Wed	5th Thu	6th Fri	7th Sat	8th Sun	9th Mon	10th Tue	11th Wed	12th Thu	Gold medals
Ceremonies	OC										CC
Athletics		3	13	11	20							47
Beach volleyball					●	●		●	2			2
Rugby sevens									●	1		1
Sailing		●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	MC	6
Taekwondo								6	9			15
Va'a (Outrigger canoe)		4	4	2	2							12
Volleyball		●	●	●	●	●		●	●	2		2
Weightlifting		4	5	5								14
Total gold medals		11	22	18	22			6	11	3	6	99
September 2013	2nd Mon	3rd Tue	4th Wed	5th Thu	6th Fri	7th Sat	8th Sun	9th Mon	10th Tue	11th Wed	12th Thu	Gold medals

Medal table

Key: NOTE: This ranking does not include the six events in sailing, due to final results not present at the official website.

  *   Host nation (Wallis and Futuna)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	French Polynesia (TAH)	26	6	4	36
2	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	21	23	23	67
3	New Caledonia (NCL)	18	10	6	34
4	Fiji (FIJ)	9	11	18	38
5	Samoa (SAM)	5	2	6	13
6	Wallis and Futuna (WLF)*	2	17	14	33
7	Solomon Islands (SOL)	2	6	5	13
8	Tonga (TON)	2	3	10	15
9	Kiribati (KIR)	2	1	1	4
10	Vanuatu (VAN)	2	0	6	8
11	Cook Islands (COK)	1	3	0	4
12	Tuvalu (TUV)	1	1	1	3
13	Marshall Islands (MHL)	1	1	0	2
14	Nauru (NRU)	1	0	2	3
15	F.S. Micronesia (FSM)	1	0	0	1
16	Palau (PLW)	0	3	1	4
17	Niue (NIU)	0	1	0	1
18	Guam (GUM)	0	0	2	2
19	Norfolk Island (NFK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		94	88	100	282

References

1. 2013 team Vanuatu to Wallis & Futuna PMG. VASANOC, 20 September 2013.
2. "List of Sports for 2013 Pacific Mini Games". Archived from the original on 2013-08-11. Retrieved 2013-08-11.

External links

• "2013 Pacific Mini Games official website". Archived from the original on 10 August 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
• 2013 Pacific Mini Games description
• Official Program (in French)