Pacific Mini Games

Following the success of the main Pacific Games, the Pacific Games council decided to create a smaller version of the games to enable smaller nations and territories to host events and compete against each other. From this came the Pacific Mini Games.

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The governing body for the mini games is the Pacific Games Council. Much like the main games, the Games council flag is presented to the host nation of the next mini games at the end of every games. As of 2017, the council has 22 member nations.

Two other nations, Australia and New Zealand, are not members of the council but are invited as observers to the council's general assembly. These nations participated at the mini games in 2017 and made their main games debut in 2015.

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|lat=-21.133333|long=-175.2|label=1989}}

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|lat=-17.733333|long=168.316667|label=1993, 2017}}

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|lat=15.183333|long=145.75|label=2022}}

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As with the main games, the cost of providing the necessary facilities and infrastructure is a concern to the region's smaller nations. In preparation for the 2009 Games in Rarotonga, despite having hosted the games previously, the local government considered diverting funds from a highway project, and secured a loan for US$10 million from the Chinese government to finance the building of a stadium.[http://www.cinews.co.ck/local.htm#9 Stadium and China loan on hold] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208123741/http://www.cinews.co.ck/local.htm#9 |date=8 February 2013 }} Cook Islands News Online, 12 September 2007{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801174336/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=38500|archive-date=1 August 2009|url-status=live|url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=38500|title=Stadium for Mini Games in Cooks gets go-ahead|publisher=Radio New Zealand|date=11 March 2008}}

{{Further|Pacific Games#Sports}}

There are 37 approved sports by the Pacific Games Council updated in 2019. Unlike the main games, the Pacific Mini Games does not have a compulsory sports list. However, 50 percent of the sports selected for a games must be from the compulsory sports list of the Pacific Games Council.

After the 2022 Games in Saipan, 29 of the 37 sports have been included at the Mini Games since the inaugural edition in 1981.

Listed are sports already contested at the Pacific Mini Games.

Both disciplines have been replaced by other versions of the sports. Rugby 15s (replaced by Rugby 7s), and Rugby league 7s (replaced by Rugby league 9s).

This table shows all medals won by a Pacific Games association since the inaugural games in 1981 to the most recent games held in 2022.

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| gold_NCL = 248 | silver_NCL = 193 | bronze_NCL = 146

| gold_FIJ = 189 | silver_FIJ = 178 | bronze_FIJ = 178

| gold_PNG = 182 | silver_PNG = 187 | bronze_PNG = 163

| gold_PYF = 151 | silver_PYF = 109 | bronze_PYF = 105

| gold_SAM = 133 | silver_SAM = 80 | bronze_SAM = 88

| gold_NRU = 66 | silver_NRU = 23 | bronze_NRU = 30

| gold_VAN = 42 | silver_VAN = 57 | bronze_VAN = 59

| gold_COK = 38 | silver_COK = 49 | bronze_COK = 51

| gold_TGA = 33 | silver_TGA = 42 | bronze_TGA = 75

| gold_ASA = 27 | silver_ASA = 32 | bronze_ASA = 22

| gold_SOL = 28 | silver_SOL = 74 | bronze_SOL = 63

| gold_KIR = 22 | silver_KIR = 11 | bronze_KIR = 17

| gold_NMI = 20 | silver_NMI = 25 | bronze_NMI = 18

| gold_GUM = 19 | silver_GUM = 19 | bronze_GUM = 34

| gold_AUS = 16 | silver_AUS = 3 | bronze_AUS = 5

| gold_PLW = 12 | silver_PLW = 11 | bronze_PLW = 8

| gold_WLF = 9 | silver_WLF = 24 | bronze_WLF = 32 | name_WLF = {{WLF|local}}

| gold_FSM = 9 | silver_FSM = 6 | bronze_FSM = 5

| gold_NFK = 7 | silver_NFK = 17 | bronze_NFK = 14

| gold_MHL = 5 | silver_MHL = 6 | bronze_MHL = 0

| gold_TUV = 3 | silver_TUV = 3 | bronze_TUV = 11

| gold_NIU = 2 | silver_NIU = 14 | bronze_NIU = 7

| gold_NZL = 2 | silver_NZL = 7 | bronze_NZL = 0

| gold_BBB = 2 | silver_BBB = 1 | bronze_BBB = 0 | name_BBB = {{flagicon image|Pacific Logo.svg}} Independent PGC athletes | skip_BBB = yes

| gold_TKL = 0 | silver_TKL = 2 | bronze_TKL = 1

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|date=11 May 2017

|title=Vanuatu committed to 2017 Pacific Mini Games

|work=Cook Islands News

|url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/sport/other-sports/item/58302-vanuatu-committed-to-2017-pacific-mini-games/58302-vanuatu-committed-to-2017-pacific-mini-games

|access-date=7 October 2017

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007220322/http://www.cookislandsnews.com/sport/other-sports/item/58302-vanuatu-committed-to-2017-pacific-mini-games/58302-vanuatu-committed-to-2017-pacific-mini-games

|archive-date=7 October 2017

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• {{cite report

|year= 2007

|title= Charter – Constitution adopted Apia, Samoa 14 May 2006 – Protocols and Regulations adopted by Executive Board on 17th January 2007 and 20th March 2007

|publisher= Pacific Games Council

|access-date= 15 May 2015

|format= PDF 0.3 MB

|url= http://www.sportingpulse.com/pics/20/02/200259_firstfileFILE.pdf

|url-status= dead

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928015358/http://www.sportingpulse.com/pics/20/02/200259_firstfileFILE.pdf

|archive-date= 28 September 2007

|ref={{harvid|Charter|2007}}

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