Swimming at the 1979 South Pacific Games
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| Swimming at the 1979 South Pacific Games | |
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| File:Swimming pictogram.svg | |
| Location | Agana, Guam |
| Dates | 1979 |
Swimming at the 1979 South Pacific Games took place in Suva, the capital of Fiji. It was the sixth edition of the South Pacific Games. The existing South Pacific Games record time was broken in every event.[1] There were either 24 or 23 events on the programme, depending on whether the men's 4 × 200 metres relay was contested and officially included in the medals. There are conflicting sources of information cited (as of November 2015) and none sufficient to provide clarity.a
Medal summary
Medal table
* Host nation (Fiji)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of France.svg French Polynesia (PYF) | 7 | 5 | 6 | 18 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Guam.svg Guam (GUM) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg New Caledonia (NCL) | 5 | 9 | 6 | 20 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea (PNG) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji (FIJ)* | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 | |
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Men's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m Freestyle | File:Flag of Guam.svg Hollis Kimbrough (GUM) | 56.88 GR
|
File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 57.07 | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Gil Verlaguet (NCL) | 58.47 |
| 200 m Freestyle | File:Flag of Guam.svg Hollis Kimbrough (GUM) | 2:01.43 GR
|
File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 2:01.45 | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Gil Verlaguet (NCL) | 2:04.19 |
| 400 m Freestyle | File:Flag of Guam.svg Hollis Kimbrough (GUM) | 4:20.25 GR
|
File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Gil Verlaguet (NCL) | 4:20.50 | File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 4:22.70 |
| 1500 m Freestyle | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Gil Verlaguet (NCL) | 17:06.91 GR
|
File:Flag of Guam.svg Hollis Kimbrough (GUM) | 17:45.39 | File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 17:56.62 |
| 100 m Backstroke | File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 1:02.62 GR
|
File:Flag of Guam.svg David Zimmerman (GUM) | 1:06.25 | File:Flag of Fiji.svg Gordon Petersen (FIJ) | 1:08.16 |
| 100 m Breaststroke | File:Flag of France.svg Ronald Bonnet (TAH) | 1:12.53 GR
|
File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Jean-Christophe Mouren (NCL) | 1:15.34 | File:Flag of Guam.svg Geoff Burke (GUM) | 1:16.00 |
| 200 m Breaststroke | File:Flag of France.svg Ronald Bonnet (TAH) | 2:41.83 GR
|
File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Jean-Christophe Mouren (NCL) | 2:45.69 | File:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg David Murphy (PNG) | 2:45.79 |
| 100 m Butterfly | File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 1:03.20 GR
|
File:Flag of France.svg Daniel Berdichewsky (TAH) | 1:03.97 | File:Flag of Guam.svg Eri Anderson (GUM) | 1:04.58 |
| 200 m Individual medley | File:Flag of France.svg Henri Noble (TAH) | 2:19.98 GR
|
File:Flag of Guam.svg David Zimmerman (GUM) | 2:24.82 | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg Jean-Christophe Mouren (NCL) | 2:25.74 |
| 4 × 100 m Freestyle relay | File:Flag of France.svg French Polynesia | 3:53.88 GR
|
File:Flag of Guam.svg Guam | 3:56.20 | File:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg New Caledonia | 3:58.71 |
| 4 × 200m Freestyle relaya (no results) |
– | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 × 100 m Medley relay | File:Flag of France.svg French Polynesia | 4:17.35 GR
|
File:Flag of Guam.svg Guam | 4:25.88 | File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji | 4:42.08 |
Women's events
Notes
- GR denotes South Pacific Games record time.
^a The men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay, as marked up with a (grey background) in the events table above, was not listed in the results published in the November 1979 issue of Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM).[2] As such, and unless other source material for the 1979 results become available, no medals for this event are included in the tally on this page. However, there are sources which suggest that the PIM published results might have some inaccuracies and could be incomplete:
- The same PIM issue, two pages earlier, reports that Fiji won table tennis gold medals for both the women's team event and the women's doubles.[3] However, only the women's doubles event is recorded in the list of results, and no women's (or men's) team event for table tennis is included.[4]
- Also earlier in the same PIM issue, it is reported that "Papua New Guinea took the bronze" in the netball competition, behind Fiji and Cook Islands.[5] However, in the PIM results for the netball, Tonga is listed as finishing in third place.[4]
- A publication from Guam's Political Status Education Coordinating Commission also states that the Guam swimmer Hollis Kimbrough, "won a record seven medals in the '79 SPG alone".[6] As the PIM results show only four medals for Kimbrough plus two men's relay medals won by the Guam team,[2] it may be the case that the men's 4 × 200 m event did take place but was missed in the results.
References
- ↑ PIM & 1979 (10), 15, § Swimming.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 PIM & 1979 (10), p. 18.
- ↑ PIM & 1979 (10), 16, § Table Tennis.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 PIM & 1979 (10), p. 19.
- ↑ PIM & 1979 (10), 15, § Netball.
- ↑ I manfåyi, Who's who in Chamorro history, Volume 3 (Report). Political Status Education Coordinating Commission (Guam). 2003. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
Sources
- "Last of the Super Games/The Medal Winners" (PDF). Pacific Islands Monthly. 50 (10). 1979. Archived from the original on July 4, 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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