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Touch rugby at the Pacific Games

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Touch rugby was introduced to the Pacific Games in 2003 at Suva in Fiji.^[1] It is an optional sport for the Pacific Games program,^[2] and the tournaments include men's, women's and mixed competitions.^[3] The first touch rugby tournament at the Pacific Mini Games was played in the Cook Islands in 2009.

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"2003 South Pacific Games - Touch Rugby: Day 2 action and results". Sports Pulse. 8 July 2003. Archived from the original on 1 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.

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"2003 South Pacific Games - Touch Rugby: Results & Fixtures - Mixed". Sports Pulse. 10 July 2003. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2015.

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Year	Host	Final			Bronze medal match			Ref
Year	Host	Gold medal	Score	Silver medal	Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place	Ref
2003	Suva	Fiji	6–5	Papua New Guinea	Samoa	medal playoffs	Tuvalu	^[4] ^[5]
2007	Apia	Fiji	6–4	Samoa	Papua New Guinea	5–4	Cook Islands	^[6] ^[7]
2015	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	8–7	Samoa	Cook Islands	18–4	Solomon Islands	^[8]
2019	Apia	Papua New Guinea	12–11	Samoa	Fiji	9–6	Cook Islands
2023	Honiara		–			–

Year	Host	Final			Bronze medal match			Ref
Year	Host	Gold medal	Score	Silver medal	Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place	Ref
2003	Suva	No women's competition on programme
2007	Apia	Cook Islands	4–1	Samoa	Papua New Guinea	7–6	Niue	^[9] ^[7]
2015	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	6–2	Samoa	Cook Islands	11–2	Kiribati	^[8]
2019	Apia	Papua New Guinea	9–4	Samoa	Fiji	6–5	Cook Islands
2023	Honiara		–			–

Year	Host	Final			Bronze medal match			Ref
Year	Host	Gold medal	Score	Silver medal	Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place	Ref
2003	Suva	Fiji	9–8	Cook Islands	Samoa	medal playoffs	Niue	^[10] ^[5]
2007	Apia	Samoa	7–6	Cook Islands	Papua New Guinea	5–4	Niue	^[11] ^[7]
2015	Port Moresby	Samoa	9–7	Papua New Guinea	Cook Islands	10–3	Tonga
2019	Apia	Papua New Guinea	10–9	Samoa	Cook Islands	10–7	Fiji
2023	Honiara		–			–

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	5	2	3	10
2	Fiji (FIJ)	3	0	2	5
3	Samoa (SAM)	2	7	2	11
4	Cook Islands (COK)	1	2	4	7
Totals (4 entries)		11	11	11	33

Year	Host	Final			Bronze medal match			Ref
Year	Host	Gold medal	Score	Silver medal	Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place	Ref
2009	Rarotonga	Cook Islands	9–4	Fiji	Samoa			^[12] ^[13]

Touch_rugby_at_the_Pacific_Games

Touch rugby at the Pacific Games

Men's summaries

Women's summaries

Mixed tournament

Medal table

Pacific Mini Games

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