South Pacific Athletics Championships
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| South Pacific Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
| Status | defunct |
| Genre | Athletics championship |
| Inaugurated | 1976 |
| Most recent | 1984 |
| Area | South Pacific Ocean islands |
The South Pacific Athletics Championships were an international athletics competition between island nations of the South Pacific Ocean. The championships was contested on three occasions: it was first held in 1976, had its second edition in 1978, then its final edition in 1984. Ten nations won medals at the competition during its lifetime.[1] The competition emerged as a single-sport championship following in the footsteps of the region's multi-sport event established in 1963: the South Pacific Games.[2] The athletics competition declined with the emergence of the South Pacific Mini Games in 1981, which was a smaller-scale event with athletics as its core sport.[3]
| Ed. | Year | City | Country | Dates | No. of events |
No. of nations |
No. of athletes |
Winning nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1976 | Nouméa | New Caledonia | 37 | ||||
| 2 | 1978 | Pirae | French Polynesia | 37 | ||||
| 3 | 1984 | Suva | Fiji | 38 |
