Sailing at the Pacific Games
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Sailing at the Pacific Games was first contested when the sport was added for the 1969 games at Port Moresby. It has also been included at several of the Pacific Mini Games, starting with the fifth edition held in American Samoa in 1997.
Pacific Games
The sailing events contested at each Pacific Games are listed in the table below. Flag icons and three letter country code indicate the nationality of the gold medal winner of an event, where this information is known; otherwise an (X) is used. Moving the cursor onto a country code with a dotted underline will reveal the name of the gold medal winner. A dash (–) indicates an event that was not contested.
Sailboats
Sailboards
Sailboarding was first included at the 1987 South Pacific Games and has been dominated by New Caledonia.
Pacific Mini Games
Sailing joined the Pacific Mini Games program in 1997.
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