Hosts Fiji won the first gold medals of the games in women's
archery and went on to top the
athletics medal count to add to their best-ever medal haul at the SPG.
Guam retained its place in
baseball winning their second SPG gold medal. The
cricket final saw
Papua New Guinea overcome Fiji by a single run for the gold medal. Fijian athletics dominated the
athletics events winning a total of 19 gold medals. Makelesi Bulikiombo, the Fijian flag-bearer in the
opening ceremony, won 5 gold medals and broke 4 games records. Fiji also took gold, silver and bronze in each of the men's and women's 100m and 200m and both gold and silver in the 400m. The
football competition was one of the sports to be held in venues other than Suva. Fiji won the men's final beating
New Caledonia while Papua New Guinea took the first-ever women's football gold medal in a
round robin format. Continuing their domination at the games, Fiji won a further gold in the first-ever women's
field hockey competition at the SPG. The Pacific region-specific sports of
outrigger canoeing were contested between
Tahiti and
New Caledonia and
Tonga and Tahiti surfed to gold at the
Tavarua breaks. ==Medal table==