Touch rugby at the Pacific Games

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.

Men's summaries

Year	Host		Final				Bronze medal match				Ref
			Gold medal	Score	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place
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			–				–

Women's summaries

Year	Host		Final				Bronze medal match				Ref
			Gold medal	Score	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place
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			–			–

Mixed tournament

Year	Host		Final				Bronze medal match				Ref
			Gold medal	Score	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place
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			–				–

Medal table

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

Pacific Mini Games

Men's

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

Women's

Year	Host		Final				Bronze medal match				Ref
			Gold medal	Score	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place
2009	Rarotonga		Samoa	5–4	Cook Islands		Niue				[12] [13]

Mixed

Year	Host		Final				Bronze medal match				Ref
			Gold medal	Score	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Score	Fourth place
2009	Rarotonga		Cook Islands	8–7 (a.e.t.)	Fiji		Papua New Guinea				[13] [14]

References

This page was last edited on 15 June 2023, at 13:49