From the inspiring to the surprising, a round-up of the best quotes from athletes and coaches across the Sol2023 Pacific Games, as gathered by reporters from the Pacific Games News Service. ATHLETICS “Each race is different and so I accepted...
The Sol2023 Pacific Games concluded with a vibrant closing ceremony at Honiara’s National Stadium on Saturday night, marking the end of a two-week sporting extravaganza featuring 24 Pacific nations. The Games saw more than 5,000 athletes compete in 24 sports...
Thousands of Sol2023 Pacific Games volunteers had the honour of parading in Saturday’s closing ceremony, with the crowd celebrating their efforts in the successful delivery of the Games. The Pacific Games News Service, which is itself mostly staffed by volunteers,...
Saturday, the final day of the Games, was also the last day of sailing events at DC Park, and New Caledonia added two more gold medals to their tally. The battle for supremacy in the sailboard female lightweight (windsurf) category...
Australia dominated the final bouts of the Sol2023 Pacific Games boxing competition at Honiara’s Friendship Hall on Saturday. Out of the total 11 bouts held on the on the closing day, athletes from the ‘land down under’ scooped six gold...
Samoa was successful in its campaign to earn all three gold medals in touch rugby at the Sol2023 Pacific Games after edging past defending champions, Papua New Guinea (PNG) at DC Park on Saturday. The gold medal match saw the...
Australia won both Sol2023 Pacific Games beach volleyball gold medals on the final day of competition at Honiara’s SIFF Academy on Saturday. Having defeated favourites Vanuatu in the semi-final, Jana Milutinovic and Stefie Fejes triumphed in the women’s gold medal...
Guam successfully defended their Pacific Games basketball 3×3 gold medal after beating Fiji in a tightly contested battle of the giants on Saturday at the SIFF Academy court. The teams headed into the gold medal match after beating PNG and...
Four years after their campaign wound up to a disappointing end at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games, Tonga finally achieved its goal of becoming Sol2023 Pacific Games champions for the first time at Friendship Hall on Saturday. Up until now,...
Tahiti’s triathlon sensation, Salome De Barthez De Mamorieres, clinched her fifth gold medal at Sol2023, winning the women’s half marathon on Saturday with a time of 1 hour 23 minutes and 39 seconds. However, her victory was fiercely contested by veteran long-distance duo from Solomon Islands, Dianah Matekali...
