Pacific Games all-time medal table by the numbers

PORT MORESBY, July 3 – Port Moresby 2015 is the 15th edition of the Pacific Games, below are some facts about the all-time medal table.

• New Caledonia arrives for the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games leading the all-time Games medal table with 776 gold medals, ahead of French Polynesia and Fiji.
• Hosts Papua New Guinea needs to win eleven more gold medals than Fiji in Port Moresby to become the third-ranked Pacific Games Association (PGA).
• Tokelau sits above all competing countries when ranking the PGAs by number of gold medals as a percentage of total medals. Three of Tokelau’s six medals are gold.
• Of the nations with larger total medal counts, 47 percent of Nauru’s 173 total medals are gold, ranking them above the Federated States of Micronesia [41 percent of 39 total medals] and New Caledonia [40 percent of 1921 total medals].
• Fiji has the worst conversion rate of any of the nations in the top five on the medal table with just 30 percent of its total medals being gold.
• Despite having over 100 more total medals, Guam sits behind Nauru on the medal table [ranked gold, silver, bronze] as Guam has 23 fewer gold medals.
• Niue, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Australia and New Zealand are all striving for their first Pacific Games gold medal. Australia and New Zealand are competing in the Games for the first time.

Pacific Games Association	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank by total
New Caledonia	776	622	523	1921	1
Tahiti (incl. French Polynesia)	443	377	394	1214	2
Fiji	354	403	418	1175	3
Papua New Guinea	344	325	341	1010	4
Samoa (incl. Western Samoa)	177	128	145	450	5
Nauru	82	51	40	173	8
Guam	59	95	121	275	6
Tonga	42	60	82	184	7
American Samoa	41	42	70	153	9
Wallis & Futuna	21	35	78	134	11
Cook Islands	20	42	46	108	13
Vanuatu (incl. New Hebrides)	19	50	76	145	10
Federated States of Micronesia	16	13	10	39	=14
Solomon Islands	10	46	77	133	12
Palau	9	13	12	34	16
Northern Mariana Islands	5	11	12	28	17
Kiribati	3	16	20	39	=14
Norfolk Islands	3	10	13	26	18
Tokelau	3	2	1	6	21
Niue	0	4	9	13	19
Marshall Islands	0	3	6	9	20
Tuvalu	0	3	2	5	22
Australia	0	0	0	0	=23
New Zealand	0	0	0	0	=23

*Calculated from the Pacific Games Council’s official medal tally

Fourteen editions of the South Pacific Games/Pacific Games are included, from the first in Suva, Fiji, in 1963 to the most recent in Noumea, New Caledonia, in 2011.

The medal table is ranked by most total gold medals, most total silver medals and most total bronze medals.

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