Netball at the Pacific Games

{{Infobox Sports league

| title = Netball at the Pacific Games

| logo = Netball pictogram.svg

| pixels = 80

| caption =

| administrator = World Netball
Oceania Netball Federation

| founded = 1963

| champion = {{nb|TON}} (1st Title)

| most_champs = {{nb|Fiji}} (7 titles)

| website =

}}

Netball at the Pacific Games (previously known as the South Pacific Games) has been an optional Pacific Games sport since 1963. Fiji have been the tournament's most successful team, winning seven gold medals. Cook Islands have won four gold medals. To date, only the Cook Islands and Fiji have won netball gold at the Pacific Games.

Netball was originally scheduled as a medal sport for the 1969 South Pacific Games in Port Moresby, however, due to the sport having only two entries, a prize instead was awarded to the winner. Netball was not included in 1971, 1975, 1987 and 2011.{{fact|date=December 2023}}

Results summary

{{MedalistTable\|type=Games}}
1963{{cite web \|title= 1963 South Pacific Games Results \|page=33 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808994 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028134753/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808994 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015}}	{{nb\|FIJ\|colonial}}	{{nb\|SAM\|name=Western Samoa}}	{{flagdeco\|Territory of Papua and New Guinea}} Papua New Guinea
1966{{cite web \|title= 1966 South Pacific Games Results \|page=7 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3852495 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028071735/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3852495 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20150423135113/http://nsw.netball.com.au/inside-netball-nsw/honour-roll/704-2/717-2/ Anne Clark BEM] Netball NSW.	{{flagdeco\|New Zealand}} Cook Islands	{{nb\|FIJ\|colonial}}	{{nb\|PNG\|1965}}
1969{{refn \|group=upper-alpha \|name = spg-1969 \|The September 1969 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM) stated that "women's netball attracted only a few onlookers at the Boroko Reserve"; and that, "The Fijian team withdrew at the last minute and two outsiders—Manly from Sydney and a 'Combined' team—fielded teams to give the Solomon Islanders and New Guineans a variety of six matches each. No medals were awarded".{{cite journal \|date=1969 \|title=No Medals in Netball \|journal=Pacific Islands Monthly \|volume=40 \|issue=9 \|page=33 \|publisher=Pacific Publications \|access-date=18 November 2017 \|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-330240358/view?partId=nla.obj-330294826#page/n40/mode/1up }} While the Pacific Games Council results as of October 2015 list PNG and Solomons as gold and silver winners,{{cite report \|title= 1969 South Pacific Games Results \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3848484 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028125003/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3848484 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015 }} secondary sources published at the time, such as the South Pacific Bulletin, recorded that PNG was awarded a prize instead because only two teams had entered; similarly, the 1969 results for netball published by PIM in September 1971.{{cite journal \|date=1971 \|title=Check how they go in the Games at Tahiti \|journal=Pacific Islands Monthly \|volume=42 \|issue=9 \|page=131 \|publisher=Pacific Publications \|access-date=18 November 2017 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-332062642/view?partId=nla.obj-332383608#page/n140/mode/1up }} }}	colspan="3" align=center\|PNG given a prize instead of the gold medal as only two teams had entered.
1979{{refn \|group=upper-alpha \|name = spg-1979 \|The November 1979 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM) quoted a visiting umpire as saying "Fiji and Cooks were clearly the best teams followed some way behind by PNG – but there were 'no others'", and stated that "Papua New Guinea took the bronze" in the netball competition.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|loc= 15, § Netball}} A few pages later in the PIM results section, Tonga is listed as finishing in third place for netball.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=19}} However, there are sources which suggest that the PIM published results might have some inaccuracies and could be incomplete: :# The same PIM issue, reports that Fiji won table tennis gold medals for both the women's team event and the women's doubles.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|loc= 16, § Table Tennis}} However, only the women's doubles event is recorded in the list of results, and no women's (or men's) team event is included.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=19}} :# The men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay was not listed in the PIM results,{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=18}} However, a publication from Guam's Political Status Education Coordinating Commission states that the Guam swimmer Hollis Kimbrough, "won a record seven medals in the '79 SPG alone". As the PIM results show only four medals for Kimbrough plus two men's relay medals won by the Guam team,{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=18}} it may be the case that the men's 4 × 200 m event was missed in the results.}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
1983{{cite report \|title= 1983 South Pacific Games Results \|page=5 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3846561 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151030141458/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3846561 \|archive-date= 30 October 2015}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1991{{cite report \|title= 1991 South Pacific Games Results \|page=9 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 31 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3844268 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151031005304/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3844268 \|archive-date= 31 October 2015}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1995{{cite report \|title= 1995 South Pacific Games Results \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3843905 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151030131955/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3843905 \|archive-date= 30 October 2015}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1999{{refn \|group=upper-alpha\|name = vanuatu-99 \|Vanuatu won a bronze medal for netball at the 1999 South Pacific Games. }}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|VAN}}
2003[https://archive.today/20240527091407/https://www.webcitation.org/6YtNKhzoD?url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi%3Fclient=11-1975-0-18013-0&pool=1001&action=FIXTURE&round=-1 Results of Finals] Sporting Impulse. 2003/	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|COK}}
2007[https://web.archive.org/web/20071109223051/http://sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?a=ROUND&compID=57786&c=2-3561-0-0-0 Results of Finals] Sporting Impulse. 2007/	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|SAM}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
2015	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|SAM}}
2019	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|TGA}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
2023	{{nb\|TON}}	{{nb\|FJI}}	{{nb\|SAM}}

All-time medal table

style="background:white;" \| Rank ! style="background:white;" \| Team ! style="background:white;" \| {{gold01}} ! style="background:white;" \| {{silver02}} ! style="background:white;" \| {{bronze03}} ! style="background:white;" \| Total
class="wikitable collapsible" border="1"
1	{{nb\|FIJ}}	7	3	0	10
2	{{nb\|COK}}	4	1	1	6
3	{{nb\|TGA}}	1	1	3	5
4	{{nb\|PNG}}	0	5	5	10
5	{{nb\|SAM}}	0	2	2	5
6	{{nb\|VAN}}	0	0	1	1

{{anchor|Mini}}Pacific Mini Games

rowspan="2" style="padding:1px;"\|{{abbr\|Edn\|Edition}} ! rowspan="2"\|Year ! rowspan="2" width=88\|Host city ! colspan="4"\|Final placings	rowspan="2" width=20 \|Refs
class=wikitable style="text-align:left"
width=160\|Gold	Score	width=160\|Silver	width=160\|Bronze
bgcolor=#ddeeff \|align=center\| I	align=center\| 1981 \| Honiara \| Nuku'alofa
align=center\| VIII	align=center\| 2009	Rarotonga \|access-date=5 November 2015 \|format=PDF 0.8 MB \|url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vogzwrky2jwi057/1979%20PIM%20v50%20i10%20pp.9-12%20%26%2015-19%20Last%20of%20the%20Super%20Games.pdf?dl=0 \|ref={{harvid\|PIM\|1979 (10)}} \|url-status=unfit \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704083018/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vogzwrky2jwi057/1979%20PIM%20v50%20i10%20pp.9-12%20%26%2015-19%20Last%20of%20the%20Super%20Games.pdf?dl=0 \|archive-date=July 4, 2016 }} {{refend}} {{Pacific Games}} {{Netball at the South Pacific Games}} {{International netball competitions}} {{Netball in Oceania}} Category:Sports at the Pacific Games Pacific Pacific Games About Help Updates Contact Privacy Terms GitHub © 2025 Friendly Wiki. All rights reserved.

{{MedalistTable\|type=Games}}
1963{{cite web \|title= 1963 South Pacific Games Results \|page=33 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808994 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028134753/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3808994 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015}}	{{nb\|FIJ\|colonial}}	{{nb\|SAM\|name=Western Samoa}}	{{flagdeco\|Territory of Papua and New Guinea}} Papua New Guinea
1966{{cite web \|title= 1966 South Pacific Games Results \|page=7 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3852495 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028071735/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3852495 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20150423135113/http://nsw.netball.com.au/inside-netball-nsw/honour-roll/704-2/717-2/ Anne Clark BEM] Netball NSW.	{{flagdeco\|New Zealand}} Cook Islands	{{nb\|FIJ\|colonial}}	{{nb\|PNG\|1965}}
1969{{refn \|group=upper-alpha \|name = spg-1969 \|The September 1969 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM) stated that "women's netball attracted only a few onlookers at the Boroko Reserve"; and that, "The Fijian team withdrew at the last minute and two outsiders—Manly from Sydney and a 'Combined' team—fielded teams to give the Solomon Islanders and New Guineans a variety of six matches each. No medals were awarded".{{cite journal \|date=1969 \|title=No Medals in Netball \|journal=Pacific Islands Monthly \|volume=40 \|issue=9 \|page=33 \|publisher=Pacific Publications \|access-date=18 November 2017 \|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-330240358/view?partId=nla.obj-330294826#page/n40/mode/1up }} While the Pacific Games Council results as of October 2015 list PNG and Solomons as gold and silver winners,{{cite report \|title= 1969 South Pacific Games Results \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3848484 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028125003/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3848484 \|archive-date= 28 October 2015 }} secondary sources published at the time, such as the South Pacific Bulletin, recorded that PNG was awarded a prize instead because only two teams had entered; similarly, the 1969 results for netball published by PIM in September 1971.{{cite journal \|date=1971 \|title=Check how they go in the Games at Tahiti \|journal=Pacific Islands Monthly \|volume=42 \|issue=9 \|page=131 \|publisher=Pacific Publications \|access-date=18 November 2017 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-332062642/view?partId=nla.obj-332383608#page/n140/mode/1up }} }}	colspan="3" align=center\|PNG given a prize instead of the gold medal as only two teams had entered.
1979{{refn \|group=upper-alpha \|name = spg-1979 \|The November 1979 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM) quoted a visiting umpire as saying "Fiji and Cooks were clearly the best teams followed some way behind by PNG – but there were 'no others'", and stated that "Papua New Guinea took the bronze" in the netball competition.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|loc= 15, § Netball}} A few pages later in the PIM results section, Tonga is listed as finishing in third place for netball.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=19}} However, there are sources which suggest that the PIM published results might have some inaccuracies and could be incomplete: :# The same PIM issue, reports that Fiji won table tennis gold medals for both the women's team event and the women's doubles.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|loc= 16, § Table Tennis}} However, only the women's doubles event is recorded in the list of results, and no women's (or men's) team event is included.{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=19}} :# The men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay was not listed in the PIM results,{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=18}} However, a publication from Guam's Political Status Education Coordinating Commission states that the Guam swimmer Hollis Kimbrough, "won a record seven medals in the '79 SPG alone". As the PIM results show only four medals for Kimbrough plus two men's relay medals won by the Guam team,{{sfn\|PIM\|1979 (10)\|page=18}} it may be the case that the men's 4 × 200 m event was missed in the results.}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
1983{{cite report \|title= 1983 South Pacific Games Results \|page=5 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3846561 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151030141458/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3846561 \|archive-date= 30 October 2015}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1991{{cite report \|title= 1991 South Pacific Games Results \|page=9 \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 31 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3844268 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151031005304/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3844268 \|archive-date= 31 October 2015}}	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1995{{cite report \|title= 1995 South Pacific Games Results \|website= Oceania Sport Information Centre \|access-date= 28 October 2015 \|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3843905 \|url-status=live \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151030131955/http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3843905 \|archive-date= 30 October 2015}}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|TGA}}
1999{{refn \|group=upper-alpha\|name = vanuatu-99 \|Vanuatu won a bronze medal for netball at the 1999 South Pacific Games. }}	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|VAN}}
2003[https://archive.today/20240527091407/https://www.webcitation.org/6YtNKhzoD?url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi%3Fclient=11-1975-0-18013-0&pool=1001&action=FIXTURE&round=-1 Results of Finals] Sporting Impulse. 2003/	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|COK}}
2007[https://web.archive.org/web/20071109223051/http://sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?a=ROUND&compID=57786&c=2-3561-0-0-0 Results of Finals] Sporting Impulse. 2007/	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|SAM}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
2015	{{nb\|FIJ}}	{{nb\|PNG}}	{{nb\|SAM}}
2019	{{nb\|COK}}	{{nb\|TGA}}	{{nb\|PNG}}
2023	{{nb\|TON}}	{{nb\|FJI}}	{{nb\|SAM}}

style="background:white;" \| Rank ! style="background:white;" \| Team ! style="background:white;" \| {{gold01}} ! style="background:white;" \| {{silver02}} ! style="background:white;" \| {{bronze03}} ! style="background:white;" \| Total
class="wikitable collapsible" border="1"
1	{{nb\|FIJ}}	7	3	0	10
2	{{nb\|COK}}	4	1	1	6
3	{{nb\|TGA}}	1	1	3	5
4	{{nb\|PNG}}	0	5	5	10
5	{{nb\|SAM}}	0	2	2	5
6	{{nb\|VAN}}	0	0	1	1

rowspan="2" style="padding:1px;"\|{{abbr\|Edn\|Edition}} ! rowspan="2"\|Year ! rowspan="2" width=88\|Host city ! colspan="4"\|Final placings	rowspan="2" width=20 \|Refs
class=wikitable style="text-align:left"
width=160\|Gold	Score	width=160\|Silver	width=160\|Bronze
bgcolor=#ddeeff \|align=center\| I	align=center\| 1981 \| Honiara \| Nuku'alofa
align=center\| VIII	align=center\| 2009	Rarotonga \|access-date=5 November 2015 \|format=PDF 0.8 MB \|url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vogzwrky2jwi057/1979%20PIM%20v50%20i10%20pp.9-12%20%26%2015-19%20Last%20of%20the%20Super%20Games.pdf?dl=0 \|ref={{harvid\|PIM\|1979 (10)}} \|url-status=unfit \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704083018/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vogzwrky2jwi057/1979%20PIM%20v50%20i10%20pp.9-12%20%26%2015-19%20Last%20of%20the%20Super%20Games.pdf?dl=0 \|archive-date=July 4, 2016 }} {{refend}} {{Pacific Games}} {{Netball at the South Pacific Games}} {{International netball competitions}} {{Netball in Oceania}} Category:Sports at the Pacific Games Pacific Pacific Games About Help Updates Contact Privacy Terms GitHub © 2025 Friendly Wiki. All rights reserved.