Sailing at the Pacific Games

Sailing at the Pacific Games was first contested when the sport was added for the 1969 games at Port Moresby. It has also been included at several of the Pacific Mini Games, starting with the fifth edition held in American Samoa in 1997.

Sailboats

The sailing events contested at each Pacific Games are listed in the table below. Flag icons and three letter country code indicate the nationality of the gold medal winner of an event, where this information is known; otherwise an (X) is used. Moving the cursor onto a country code with a dotted underline will reveal the name of the gold medal winner. A dash (–) indicates an event that was not contested.

Games	Year	Host city	Men's dinghy		Open multihull		Women's dinghy		Total events	Refs
I – II	Sailing not contested 1963–1966
			Fireball
			Pair	Team
III	1969	Port Moresby	PNG	–	–	–	–	–	1	^[A]
IV	1971	Papeete	TAH	–	–	–	–	–	1	^[B]
			Laser		Hobie 16
			Single	Team	Pair	Team
V	1975	Tumon	GUM	–	–	–	–	–	1	^[C]
VI	1979	Suva	–	–	TAH	–	–	–	1	^[D]
VII	Sailing not contested in 1983
VIII	1987	Nouméa	–	–	NCL	NCL	–	–	2	^[E]
IX	1991	Port Moresby	–	–	TAH	TAH	–	–	2	^[F]
X	1995	Papeete	–	–	TAH	TAH	–	–	2	^[G]
			Laser		Hobie 16		Laser Radial
			Single	Team	Pair	Team	Single	Team
XI	1999 (details)	Santa Rita	GUM	GUM	–	–	NCL	NCL	4	^[H]
XII	2003 (details)	Suva	TAH	TAH	NCL	NCL	NCL	FIJ	6	^[I]
XIII	2007 (details)	Apia	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	6
XIV	2011 (details)	Nouméa	NCL	NCL	TAH	TAH	COK	COK	6
XV	2015 (details)	Port Moresby	AUS	AUS	NCL	NCL	COK	COK	6
XV	2019 (details)	Apia	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	SAM	6
XVI	2023 (details)	Honiara	NCL	NCL	–	–	AUS	AUS	4

Sailboards

Sailboarding was first included at the 1987 South Pacific Games and has been dominated by New Caledonia.

Games	Year	Host city	Men's		Men's heavyweight		Women's		Total events	Refs
			Single	Team	Single	Team	Single	Team
VIII	1987	Nouméa	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	6	^[E]
IX	1991	Port Moresby	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	NCL	6	^[F]
X	1995	Papeete	NCL	NCL	TAH	NCL	NCL	NCL	6	^[G]
XI	1999 (details)	Santa Rita	NCL	NCL	FIJ	FIJ	NCL	NCL	6	^[H]
XII	2003 (details)	Suva	NCL	NCL	–	–	NCL	not awarded	3	^[I]
Sailboarding not contested 2007—2019
XVI	2023 (details)	Honiara	NCL	NCL	NCL	–	NCL	NCL	5

Pacific Mini Games

Sailing joined the Pacific Mini Games program in 1997.

Games	Year	Host city	Men's dinghy		Open multihull		Women's dinghy		Total events	Refs
I – IV	Sailing not contested 1981–1993
			Laser		Hobie 16		Laser Radial
			Single	Team	Pair	Team	Single	Team
V	1997	Pago Pago	GUM	GUM	TAH	TAH	TAH	not awarded	5	^[J]
VI–VII	Sailing not contested 2001–2005
VIII	2009	Rarotonga	TAH	COK	NCL	NCL	COK	COK	6	^[K]
IX	2013 (details)	Mata-Utu	NCL	NCL	FIJ	FIJ	COK	NCL	6	^[L]
X–XI	Sailing not contested 2017–2025

Notes

↑ Papua New Guinea won the Fireball event,^[1] with Geoff Dabb (Dabb & Antonieff) the winners, ahead of Tahiti's Alan Burgaud (Burgaud & Burgaud), and Fiji's Bill Gardiner (Gardiner & Gilmore) in third.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
↑ Home team Tahiti took all three medals in Fireball dinghy event, with Krault and Frei the winning pair.
↑ Laser class won by Guam's Phil Drips ahead of Kevin Read (PNG) and Bill Gardiner (Fiji).^[6]
↑ Hobie 16 class won by J. Salmon & N. Salmon of Tahiti, ahead of compatriots D. Arnould & G. Sachet, with A. Mazoyer & N. Cale of New Caledonia in third place.^[7]
1 2 In 1987, host nation New Caledonia completed a clean sweep of the eight available sailing gold medals, winning all Hobie 16 and sailboarding classes.^[8]
1 2 The French territories dominated the regatta. Tahiti won the two Hobie events, and New Caledonia won all six sailboarding events.^[9]
1 2 Tahiti won both gold medals in the Hobie 16 class and a further gold in the heavyweight men's sailboard but New Caledonia dominated the rest of sailboarding events, winning five gold medals.^[10]
1 2 Hosts Guam won both gold medals in men's Laser. New Caledonia won both gold medals in women's Laser Radial, and a further four gold in sailboarding. The men's heavyweight sailboarding gold medals were won by Fiji's Tony and John Philip.^[11]^[12]
1 2 In 2003 there were five fleet sailing events; Laser for men,^[13] Laser Radial for women,^[14] Hobie 16 open class,^[15] and men's and women's sailboarding (using Mistral One Design equipment). Each event was contested over 10–12 races. A gold medal was presented to the outright winner of each event (single sailor or sailing pair for the Hobie 16). The best national team in each event (on a three craft per team basis) was also awarded a gold medal – although at this games no team medal was awarded for women's sailboard as only one team entered. The New Caledonian women sailboarders Solenn Gourand, Ginseng Jeandot & Stephanie DuFourmantelle finished first, second and fourth in the regatta but there was only one other competitor in the event - Turia Vogel of Cook Islands, who finished third.^[16] New Caledonia also dominated the sailboarding with Samuel Launay winning the men's event,^[17] and Solenn Gourand winning the women's event. There were nine sailing gold medals presented.^[18]
↑ Guam took the honours in the multihulls while Guam won the three dinghy gold medals (no medal was awarded in the women's team event for Laser Radial).^[19]
↑ In the dinghy events, host nation Cook Islands won three gold medals and Tahiti won one gold medal.^[20]^[21] New Caledonia won two gold medals in the Hobie 16.^[22]
↑ New Caledonia won three dinghy gold medals, with Cook Islands taking one gold. Fiji took the multihull honours.^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]

v t e Pacific Games
Known as the South Pacific Games prior to 2009
Pacific Games	1963 Suva 1966 Nouméa 1969 Port Moresby 1971 Papeete 1975 Guam 1979 Suva 1983 Apia 1987 Nouméa 1991 Port Moresby 1995 Papeete 1999 Guam 2003 Suva 2007 Apia 2011 Nouméa 2015 Port Moresby 2019 Apia 2023 Honiara 2027 Pirae 2031 Nuku'alofa
Mini Games	1981 Honiara 1985 Rarotonga 1989 Nuku'alofa 1993 Port Vila 1997 Pago Pago 2001 Kingston 2005 Koror 2009 Rarotonga 2013 Mata Utu 2017 Port Vila 2022 Saipan 2025 Koror 2029 Rarotonga
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Sailing at the Pacific Games

Sailboats

Sailboards

Pacific Mini Games

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