2011 Pacific Games

Nouméa was the 14th host of the Pacific Games. Upon closure of the registration for entries, "some 4,300 athletes" had registered from the twenty-two competing nations, although it was expected that not all would attend.

XIV Pacific Games

Host city	Nouméa
Country	New Caledonia
Nations	22
Athletes	4,300
Events	27 sports
Opening	August 27, 2011 (2011-08-27)
Closing	September 10, 2011 (2011-09-10)
Opened by	Nicolas Sarkozy
Main venue	Stade Numa-Daly Magenta
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There were 22 nations from the Pacific competing in Nouméa. The numbers provided in brackets indicate the number of registered athletes prior to the Games, with that number expected to diminish by the Games' start. Clicking on the number will take you to a page on that nation's delegation to the 2011 Games.

 

The mascot for 2011, Joemy, was unveiled on 27 August 2009 after a public vote by mail, email, fax and SMS (with nearly 8,000 voters). An initial sketch by a pupil from Jules Garnier High School in Nouméa was transformed into a three dimensional cartoon character by graphic designers at Banana Studio in Nouméa.

Joemy is a blue flying fox in orange shorts. Her name was intended as an "invitation", chosen for its proximity to the local Drehu word troemi (pronounced "chôémi" which means "come") and the English phrase "join me". The flying fox is an animal that is endemic to New Caledonia. The colour blue was chosen as representing the ocean surrounding all of the 22 island countries taking part in the Games.

There were 27 sports contested at the 2011 Games:

A list of 30 sports was proposed in August 2009, with a maximum of 28 to be included. There were 12 compulsory sports, with 10 having to be staged for both men and women (athletics, basketball, beach volleyball, golf, swimming, table tennis, tennis, va’a outrigger canoeing, volleyball, weightlifting), and a further 2 having to be staged for men (football and rugby sevens) that were optional women's events.

The remaining (up to) 16 sports were to be selected from: archery, badminton, baseball, bodybuilding, boxing, cricket, cycling, team handball, judo, karate, power lifting, sailing, shooting, squash, surfing, taekwondo, and triathlon.

Notes:

The host nation topped the medal count.

  *   Host nation (New Caledonia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Caledonia*	120	107	61	288
2	French Polynesia	60	42	42	144
3	Papua New Guinea	48	25	48	121
4	Fiji	33	44	53	130
5	Samoa	22	17	34	73
6	Nauru	8	10	10	28
7	Tonga	4	6	10	20
8	Micronesia (FSM)	3	0	0	3
9	Cook Islands	2	6	4	12
10	Wallis and Futuna (WLF)	2	3	7	12
11	Vanuatu	1	8	8	17
12	Kiribati	1	6	6	13
13	Northern Mariana Islands	1	0	0	1
14	Guam	0	6	5	11
15	Solomon Islands	0	5	17	22
16	Niue	0	3	3	6
17	Tuvalu	0	2	1	3
18	Palau	0	1	3	4
19	American Samoa	0	0	0	0
	Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0
	Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0
	Tokelau	0	0	0	0
Totals (22 entries)		305	291	312	908

Key

  *   Host nation (New Caledonia)