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Fun in the Sand shows Sport is for All
Dec 16, 2017 | Beach Volleyball News, nouvelles
Beach Volleyball centre court at the Korman Complex was lit up on Friday afternoon witha couple of fun gameswhich featured the Vanuatu Para athletes, who have this past week competed in the 2017 Pacific Mini Games, and the beautiful mamas from the villages of...
Being Dual Nationals an Honour for Female Cricketers
Dec 16, 2017 | Netball News
Netball has been the centre of attention during the second week of the Pacific Mini Games because it is a discipline that celebrates the strength and athleticism of women in sport. This year, netball featured some outstanding athletes in the Van2017 games along with...
Vanuatu Men win gold medal in football
Dec 15, 2017 | Football News
For the first time in Vanuatu football history Vanuatu has the won gold medal in the South Pacific Mini Games, in the Finals today with Solomon Islands at Port Vila Stadium. Over thousand people were at the stadium to cheer for team Vanuatu, Men, Women, youth and...
BRONZE OR SILVER?
Strong support from the two teams' supporters gave more courage to the players, of teams Fiji and New Caledonia 4 points to 1. Saula Waqa opened the scoring in the favor of Fiji, supported by the 3 other points that other team members scored. New Caledonia tried their...
TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS MEDAL PRESENTATIONS
Dec 14, 2017 | Athletics News
The track and field events are getting very 'tuff' during this week's competitions within different type of field events you can name it. Men Pole Vault (Sen) Geffrouais Florian of New Caledonia with 4.00m won the Gold Medal Filiaki Mosese from Tonga, Silver Medal,...
Final day of Athletics saw a range of success on both the track and the field
It was a successful day for many athletes as the 2017 Pacific Mini Games Athletics meet came to a close. On Thursday afternoon, the Men's 1500m saw Fiji finish first with Petero Veitaqomaki getting the gold, in front of Papua New Guinea's Martin Orovo and Vanuatu's...
Cook Island's Taea outclassed track queen in 200m race
It has been a massive day for the final events on the Athletics calendar on the penultimate day of the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila. Cook Island's Patricia Taea has set the first record for her country, winning gold in the Women's 200m race beating Pacific...
Excitement builds as Beach Volleyball heads to the final stages
Dec 14, 2017 | Beach Volleyball News
Beach Volleyball continued on Thursday at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games with some tough matches in both the Men's and the Women's competition. Despite the heavy rain, the competition continued and in the first Men's match Vanuatu defeated Tuvalu in a tight contest...
Results disputed
Dec 14, 2017 | Boxing News
FIJI'S fight for a top place finish at the Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu has been hit with a low blow when sprinter Aaron Powell was disqualified after winning the 100 metres final on Tuesday night. This continued when Team Fiji boxing coach, Pauliasi Ratu, did...
Avinesh chases football dream
FIJIAN football referee Avinesh Narayan has been working hard to fulfil his dream of officiating at a FIFA World Cup in future. Narayan, 36, is one of the top assistant referees in Fiji. He is officiating at the Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu. "I get a lot of...
Judo happy with Mini Games result
Dec 14, 2017 | Judo News
FIJI Judo Association's medal winning performance in the Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu has rekindled efforts to regain prominency in the sport internationally. Association president Nacanieli Takayawa, a former Commonwealth No.1 and Olympian, said bringing back...
BEACH VOLLEYBALL UPDATES
Updates for the Beach Volleyball currently happening today at Korman Stadium. With a couple of days competitions between the participating Island nations, finally this evening will be the semifinals to show which island countries will make it to the finals tomorrow....
Team Fiji Awaits Appeal Ruling
Team Fiji Chef de Mission Wayne O'Connor confirmed they are awaiting the ruling of the Pacific Mini Games tribunal on the disqualification of Aaron Powell. Powell won the 100metres final on Tuesday but was disqualified for false start. "The result was not satisfactory...
TENNIS UPDATES
Dec 14, 2017 | Tennis News
Due to a heavy downpour of rain in Port Vila (weather updates can be seen in the Weather tab on home page) Tennis games are currently on hold and will continue when the weather improves
MEN BOXING 91+ WEIGHT
VANUATU VS FIJI Referee gave the start signal and both fighters jumped in excitement to punch points. The Vanuatu boxer, Robin Peter, was tough and fast to hit his opponent right in the head. The Fijian boxer,Rokobuli Nemani, also fast, quickly answered with some of...
Tough Beach Volleyball Matches this afternoon
The ongoing volleyball matches this afternoon saw some tough matches from both the women's and men's competitions. In the women's matches, Wallis and Futuna defeated Tuvalu earning 2 sets. Tuvalu led the first set with 19/17 and Wallis and Futuna came back with some...
Basketball continues to draw large crowds
Dec 13, 2017 | 3x3 Basketball News
Fiji defeated Solomon Islands this morning with the score of 15 points – 8 points in women's basketball followed by Papua New Guinea with 10 – 8 against Samoa and lastly was Vanuatu 10-7 with Nauru. While for the men's basketball, Samoa...
PNG and Tonga too strong as Men's Beach Volleyball action continues
It was the Men's turn to take centre stage on Wednesday afternoon at the beach-like stadium where some exciting Beach Volleyball has been played this week as part of the Van2017 Pacific Mini Games. In the Men's competition, Tonga and Papua New Guinea were the victors...
Women's Beach Volleyball – The Cream rises to the Top
On the second last day of the Beach Volleyball competition at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila, the strength of the top Women's teams shone through. In the first match, New Caledonia was challenged by Wallis and Futuna but took the three set tussle with...
Gone, but never forgotten as Naulu dedicates medal to mum
SPRINTER Makereta Naulu fulfilled her late mother, Akesa Kamusu's wish after she won a bronze medal in the 100 metres of the women's competition at the Korman Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu, yesterday. She ran against Pacific sprint queen Toea Wisil from...
Fiji wins, Gamel unhappy
NATIONAL football coach Christophe Gamel is an angry man despite Fiji's win over Tonga 4-0 yesterday in the Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu. In a no-nonsense tone at Port Vila Stadium in Port Vila after the win, Gamel claimed some players did not play to his...
Rabici sets his goals
FIJI football defender Rupeni Rabici is proving to be a future star . He is being groomed by coach Christophe Gamel. He made his international debut for Fiji against Estonia during the FIFA friendly match last month. Rabici, 21, is the nephew of former Fiji and Ba...
Heptathlon – the event which intrigues and confuses
The Women's Heptathlon event began on Tuesday at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games with four competitors from just two nations – one of which is the host nation of Vanuatu. The first four of seven events were held: the 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put and the 200m race...
Archery takes aim at Van2017
Dec 12, 2017 | Archery News
On Tuesday, the Archery competition got underway at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games. The early fixture is about shooting to reach the qualification round for both Men and Women in the two disciplines – recurve and compound. The total number of archers in Men's...
In Perfect Sync for Gold
The Men's 100 metre Ambulant race was undeniably a highlight on Tuesday afternoon as Para-Athletics took centre stage at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu. In the heart of Korman complex, flags were waving in the crowd as para-athletes took their spot on the...
TRACK & FIELD EVENTS MEDAL PRESENTATIONS
With the kicking off of the track and field events this week, today Tuesday, from 1:00 pm till 4:30, saw the events such as the women's Hammer Shot put and Men's shot put and discus throw taking place at the Korman complex, followed by the Medals presentations to the...
Beach Volleyball starting to unveil the contenders
Beach Volleyball is still proving to be one of the major draw cards at the Van2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila. On Tuesday's fixture, six games took place down at the new Korman courts,which started early and as scheduled 9am and entertained the crowdfor over four...
Powell on top BUT disqualified
Fiji's Aaron Powell has stamped himself as the new Sprint King of the Pacific winning the Blue Ribbon event the 100m men's final in a time of 10.81sec ONOC
Basketball action hots up on Day Two
Dec 12, 2017 | 3x3 Basketball News, nouvelles
Day Two in the Basketball competitionhas tipped off at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in the Korman 2 Stadium and the action quickly gained momentum. 3X3 Basketball has lit up the program in much the same fashion as does the Beach Volleyball. The games are 10 minutes in...
BEACH VOLLEYBALL UNDERWAY AT 10TH PACIFIC MINI GAMES IN PORT VILA
Having hosted the Oceania Commonwealth Games Qualifier last week, the Van2017 Pacific Mini Games Beach Volleyball tournament got underway on Monday. First match of the day in the Men's competition saw Fiji – the Commonwealth Games qualifier – defeat Samoa 2-1....
Athletics draws the crowds on the first day of competition
Dec 11, 2017 | Athletics News, nouvelles
The Athletics competition had a big first day to kick off the second week of the Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila. In the Men's 400m Hurdles, PNG had a good result winning both the gold and the silver with Boino Mowen finishing in a time of 52.44 secs followed by...
The excitement of 3X3 Basketball hits the courts of Korman
The Men's and Women's 3X3 Basketball tournament at the Van2017 Pacific Mini Games tipped off on Monday morning to get Week Two of competition underway. The stands in the Korman 2 stadium filled quickly and the crowd was geared up for some fast and physical action. In...
The Long and the High of the action on the Athletics field
On the first day of Athletics at the Pacific Mini Games, the finals for the Women's Long Jump and the Men's High Jump was tough. It was a packed field with three athletes from PNG, three from Fiji, two from New Caledonia, two from the host country Vanuatu and lone...
MENS PARA-ATHLETES JAVELIN Included for the first time in Pacific Mini- Games
New Caledonia won Gold in the mens Para-Javelin Event this afternoon. ThierWashetine scoredthe Gold with a 43.54 meter throw. Fiji athlete,IosefoRakesa, won the silver medal with a 27.43 meters throw, and Wallis and Futuna'sManakoFalAveuki won bronze with 39.87 meters...
Tonga secures gold in Women's Shot Put event
Tonga secures gold medal in the Women Shot Put event this afternoon. Tonga's Ata Maama Tuutafaiva secured the gold medal while New Caledonia's Ashley Bologna grabs the silver and Cook Island's Tereapii Tapoki picked up the bronze medal. Ms Tuutafaiva...