2001 South Pacific Mini Games
Encyclopedia
The VI South Pacific Mini Games were held from December 3 to December 14, 2001 in Norfolk Island
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Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
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Participating countries
18 out of the eligible 22 South Pacific nations participated in the Games.Sports
10 sports were contested at the 2001 South Pacific Mini Games:- athletics
- archeryArcheryArchery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
- body building
- golfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- lawn bowls
- netballNetballNetball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
- shootingShooting sportsA shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...
- squashSquash (sport)Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
- tennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- triathlonTriathlonA triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...
Final Medal Table
| 1 |  Fiji |
27 | 9 | 13 | 49 |
| 2 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 45 | |
| 3 |  New Caledonia |
20 | 22 | 10 | 52 |
| 4 |  Samoa |
10 | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| 5 |  Papua New Guinea |
8 | 18 | 12 | 38 |
| 6 |  Norfolk Island |
5 | 12 | 8 | 25 |
| 7 |  Tonga |
3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 8 |  Cook Islands |
1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 9 |  Niue |
1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 |  Solomon Islands |
0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 |  Vanuatu |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 |  Northern Mariana Islands |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |