Boxing_at_the_Pacific_Games

Boxing at the Pacific Games

Boxing at the Pacific Games

Boxing competitions

Boxing at the Pacific Games has been contested since 1963 when it was included as one of ten sports at the First South Pacific Games held in Suva, Fiji.[1][2] There are presently ten weight classes for the men's competition at the Pacific Games, known as the South Pacific Games prior to 2011, in accordance with the (amateur) International Boxing Association (AIBA) classifications.

Boxing has also been included in many of the Pacific Mini Games, starting with the first edition held at Honiara in 1981.

Pacific Games

The boxing weight classes 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 a weight division that was not contested.[upper-alpha 1]

Men

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Women

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Pacific Mini Games

The boxing weight classes contested at each Pacific Mini 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 a weight division that was not contested.[upper-alpha 1]

Men's boxing

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See also

Notes

  1. The number of weight classes used by the AIBA has changed over the years and the definition of each class has also changed several times. – See: Boxing at the Summer Olympics.
  2. In 1963, although there were ten weight divisions, medals were only awarded in eight of them. Fiji made the only nominations in the flyweight and heavyweight classes and had put two boxers in each division to ensure a contest. J. Roba and M. Mate in the flyweight, and V. Dikidikiliti and P. Kali in the heavyweight, were awarded silver cups in lieu of medals.[3] Fiji won gold in four weight divisions in 1963,[4][5] Cook Islands won gold in two (featherweight and welterweight),[6] and Papua New Guinea and American Samoa won one gold medal each.[7][6]
  3. Fiji won four weight divisions. New Caledonia, Papua new Guinea and Western Samoa won two each.[8]
  4. There were 10 boxing gold medals on offer at the 1969 games.[9] Fiji won 4,[10] Western Samoa won 3, and Papua New Guinea won 2.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
  5. In 1971, Western Samoa won four weight classes, French Polynesia won three, PNG two, and Fiji and Tonga one each.[18][19]
  6. There were 11 boxing events at the 1975 games. American Samoa and Western Samoa won 3 each, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia won 2 each, and New Hebrides won 1 (Philip Kating).[20][21][22] New Caledonia won the heavyweight and middleweight titles.[23] American Samoa won the light heavyweight title.[23] PNG won the bantamweight and featherweight,[24] and Western Samoa won the flyweight and light flyweight titles.[24][25]
  7. In 1979, Western Samoa won 3 titles, Fiji, New Caledonia and PNG won 2 each, and American Samoa and Tahiti won 1 each.[26][27][28][29][30]
  8. In 1983, Western Samoa won 8 of the titles on offer.[31][32] Tommy Bauro of the Solomon Islands won the gold medal in the middleweight division.[33] Fine Sani of Tonga won gold [34] in the light-heavyweight division.[35] Loi Faaeteete won the heavyweight division for Western Samoa.[31]
  9. Women's boxing events were included at the Pacific Games for the first time in 2015. The three weight classes as used by the IOC, i.e. flyweight (48–51kg), lightweight (57–60kg), and middleweight (69–75kg) were added to the schedule.[45][46][47]
  10. In 2009, although there were ten weight divisions scheduled, medals were only ultimately awarded in nine of them.[54] Only two boxers were entered for the Flyweight 51 kg division. Samoa's Kaisa Ioane was given a walkover when his Cook Islands opponent did not appear for their bout.[55] As no contest took place, no medals could be awarded. Of the remaining nine divisions: one title was won by each of Samoa, American Samoa, and New Caledonia, two titles were won by Nauru, and four titles were won by Tahiti.[56]
  11. In 2017, host nation Vanuatu won five of the ten weight divisions in men's boxing (there were no women's contests scheduled).[57] Tahiti boycotted the Pacific Mini Games due to a dispute over recognition of the French Polynesian Boxing Federation,[58] but some Tahitian boxers competed under the flag of Pacific Games Council (PGC).[59] The PGC team of four boxers won three medals,[60] including gold medals in the heavyweight and super-heavyweight classes.[61]

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