Boxing at the Pacific Games

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's boxing

Games	Year	Host city	Light- Fly weight	Fly weight	Bantam weight	Feather weight	Light weight	Light- Welter weight	Welter weight	Light- Middle weight	Middle weight	Light- Heavy weight	Heavy weight	Super- Heavy weight	Total events	Ref
I	1963 ()	Suva	–	–	PNG	COK	FIJ	ASM	COK	FIJ	FIJ	FIJ	–	–	8	[upper-alpha 2]
II	1966 ()	Nouméa	–	FIJ	PNG	PNG	NCL	WSM	WSM	FIJ	FIJ	FIJ	NCL	–	10	[upper-alpha 3]
III	1969 ()	Port Moresby	–	FIJ	PNG	PNG	ASM	WSM	WSM	FIJ	WSM	FIJ	FIJ	–	10	[upper-alpha 4]
IV	1971	Papeete	PNG	WSM	WSM	TAH	TAH	WSM	PNG	TGA	FIJ	WSM	TAH	–	11	[upper-alpha 5]
V	1975	Tumon	WSM	WSM	PNG	PNG	ASM	WSM	NHB	ASM	NCL	ASM	NCL	–	11	[upper-alpha 6]
VI	1979	Suva	PNG	NCL	TAH	ASM	WSM	FIJ	WSM	WSM	PNG	FIJ	NCL	–	11	[upper-alpha 7]
VII	1983	Apia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	–	11
VIII	1987	Nouméa	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	12
IX	1991	Port Moresby	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	12
X	1995	Papeete	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	12
XI	1999 ()	Santa Rita	PNG	PNG	FIJ	PNG	SAM	TAH	FIJ	NCL	NCL	SAM	TAH	TAH	12	[31]
XII	2003 ()	Suva	PNG	PNG	SAM	TAH	VAN	TAH	VAN	–	FIJ	SAM	SAM	FIJ	11	[32]
XIII	2007 ()	Apia	PNG	PNG	SAM	SAM	NCL	NCL	SAM	–	SAM	SAM	SAM	TAH	11	[33]
XIV	2011 ()	Nouméa	PNG	PNG	TAH	–	TAH	TAH	TAH	–	SAM	NCL	NCL	NRU	10	[34]
XV	2015 ()	Port Moresby				–				–					10	[35][36]

Women's boxing

Games	Year	Host city	Light- Fly weight	Fly weight	Bantam weight	Feather weight	Light weight	Light- Welter weight	Welter weight	Light- Middle weight	Middle weight	Light- Heavy weight	Heavy weight	Super- Heavy weight	Total events	Ref
XV	2015 ()	Port Moresby	–	PNG	–	–	FSM	–	–	–	PNG	–	–	–	3	[upper-alpha 8]

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

Games	Year	Host city	Light- Fly weight	Fly weight	Bantam weight	Feather weight	Light weight	Light- Welter weight	Welter weight	Light- Middle weight	Middle weight	Light- Heavy weight	Heavy weight	Super- Heavy weight	Total events	Ref
I	1981	Honiara												–	11	[40]
III	1989	Nuku'alofa												–	12	[41]
IV	1993 ()	Port Vila	VAN	NCL	PNG	VAN	WSM	SOL	TAH	WSM	WSM	TGA	SOL	TGA	12	[42]
V	1997 ()	Pago Pago													12	[43]
VIII	2009 ()	Rarotonga	–	SAM	TAH	NRU	NCL	TAH	NRU	–	SAM	ASM	TAH	TAH	10	[44]

See also

• Boxing at the Commonwealth Games
• Boxing at the Summer Olympics

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. 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.^[37][38][39]

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External links

• South Pacific Games index on amateur-boxing.strefa.pl