Swimming at the 2019 Pacific Games

Swimming at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa was held on 8–13 July 2019 at the Samoa Aquatic Centre in Apia, with the Sheraton Samoa Beach Resort in Mulifanua hosting the open water swim.^[1]

The aquatic centre, originally built to cater for the 2007 South Pacific Games, was refurbished with assistance from China prior to the 2019 games.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Event schedule

The forty events in the pool – nineteen each for men and women, plus two mixed relays – were spread over five days at the Samoa Aquatic Centre,^[5] with heats held in the morning sessions, followed by the finals in the evenings.

Tue. 9 July	Wed. 10 July	Thu. 11 July	Fri. 12 July	Sat. 13 July
200 breast (M) 200 breast (W) 800 free (W) 50 fly (M) 50 fly (W) 200 back (M) 200 back (W) 4 × 100 medley (M) 4 × 100 medley (W)	50 back (W) 50 back (M) 400 IM (W) 400 IM (M) 100 fly (W) 100 fly (M) 4 × 200 free (W) 4 × 200 free (M)	200 free (M) 200 free (W) 100 back (M) 100 back (W) 50 breast (M) 50 breast (W) 4 × 100 free (M) 4 × 100 free (W)	200 IM (W) 200 IM (M) 1500 free (M) 100 free (W) 100 free (M) 4 × 50 free (Mix)	100 breast (M) 100 breast (W) 400 free (M) 400 free (W) 200 fly (M) 200 fly (W) 50 free (M) 50 free (W) 4 × 50 medley (Mix)

The men's and women's open water events were held on Monday 8 July at the Sheraton Samoa Beach Resort.^[5]

Teams

The nations competing were:^[1]

American Samoa (ASA)
Cook Islands (COK)
Fiji (FIJ)
Guam (GUM)
Marshall Islands (MHL)
New Caledonia (NCL)
Northern Mariana Islands (NMI)
Palau (PLW)
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa (SAM)
Solomon Islands (SOL)
Tahiti (TAH)
Tokelau (TKL)
Tonga (TGA)
Vanuatu (VAN)

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (Samoa)

Men's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Julien-Pierre Goyetche New Caledonia	23.03 GR, NR	Florent Janin New Caledonia	23.13	Teiki Dupont Tahiti	23.17 NR
100 m freestyle	Florent Janin New Caledonia	50.59	Nicolas Vermorel Tahiti	51.36	Wesley Roberts Cook Islands	51.49 NR
200 m freestyle	Wesley Roberts Cook Islands	1:51.36	Rahiti De Vos Tahiti	1:52.67	Thibault Mary New Caledonia	1:52.78
400 m freestyle	Rahiti De Vos Tahiti	3:56.35 GR, NR	Wesley Roberts Cook Islands	4:00.97	Brandon Schuster Samoa	4:03.22 NR
1500 m freestyle	Rahiti De Vos Tahiti	15:40.47 GR, NR	Wesley Roberts Cook Islands	16:10.35	Hugo Savignac New Caledonia	16:39.80

50 m backstroke	Julien-Pierre Goyetche New Caledonia	27.01	Netani Ross Fiji	27.13 NR	Teiki Dupont Tahiti	27.40
100 m backstroke	Emmanuel Limozin New Caledonia	58.60	Julien-Pierre Goyetche New Caledonia	58.92	Teiki Dupont Tahiti	58.99
200 m backstroke	Brandon Schuster Samoa	2:08.48 NR	Manuarii Lechêne Tahiti	2:10.31	Hugo Savignac New Caledonia	2:10.44 NR

50 m breaststroke	Thomas Oswald New Caledonia	28.38 NR	Benjamin Schulte Guam	28.75 NR	Epeli Rabua Fiji	28.89 NR
100 m breaststroke	Taichi Vakasama Fiji	1:02.84 GR, NR	Epeli Rabua Fiji	1:03.89	Ryan Maskelyne Papua New Guinea	1:04.24 NR
200 m breaststroke	Taichi Vakasama Fiji	2:14.98 NR	Ryan Maskelyne Papua New Guinea	2:17.51 NR	Brandon Schuster Samoa	2:18.26 NR

50 m butterfly	Nicolas Vermorel Tahiti	24.04 NR	Florent Janin New Caledonia	24.85	Thibaut Mary New Caledonia	24.90
100 m butterfly	Thibaut Mary New Caledonia	54.09 NR	Nicolas Vermorel Tahiti	54.16	Thomas Oswald New Caledonia	55.50
200 m butterfly	Thibaut Mary New Caledonia	2:02.29 GR, NR	Guillaume Vermorel Tahiti	2:06.36	Temafa Yalimaiwai Fiji	2:10.25 NR

200 m individual medley	Emmanuel Limozin New Caledonia	2:04.04 GR, NR	Brandon Schuster Samoa	2:05.54 NR	Taichi Vakasama Fiji	2:07.84 NR
400 m individual medley	Brandon Schuster Samoa	4:24.04 GR, NR	Emmanuel Limozin New Caledonia	4:29.99 NR	Alex Huet New Caledonia	4:30.86

4 × 100 m freestyle relay	New Caledonia Florent Janin Emmanuel Limozin Julien-Pierre Goyetche Thibaut Mary	3:23.21 GR, NR	Tahiti Nicolas Vermorel Rahiti De Vos Teiki Dupont Tuhiva Ah Sha-Roignant	3:30.97	Fiji Temafa Yalimaiwai Epeli Rabua Hansel McCag Netani Ross	3:33.89 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	New Caledonia Emmanuel Limozin Florent Janin Alex Huet Thibaut Mary	7:38.51 NR	Tahiti Rahiti De Vos Tuhiva Ah Sha-Roignant Guillaume Vermorel Nicolas Vermorel	7:55.76	Fiji Taichi Vakasama Epeli Rabua Hansel McCag Temafa Yalimaiwai	8:09.56 NR
4 × 100 m medley relay	New Caledonia Julien-Pierre Goyetche Thomas Oswald Thibaut Mary Florent Janin	3:48.33 GR, NR	Tahiti Teiki Dupont Rainui Tertipaia Nicolas Vermorel Rahiti De Vos	3:48.91	Fiji Netani Ross Taichi Vakasama Temafa Yalimaiwai Epeli Rabua	3:51.95 NR

5 km open water	Rahiti De Vos Tahiti	1:03:20	Hugo Savignac New Caledonia	1:03:21	Benoît Rivière New Caledonia	1:03:41
GR Games record for the Pacific Games/South Pacific Games

Women's

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Emma Terebo New Caledonia	26.41	Lushavel Stickland Samoa	26.71 NR	Yolani Blake Fiji	27.16
100 m freestyle	Emma Terebo New Caledonia	57.60	Lushavel Stickland Samoa	57.91 NR	Matelita Buadromo Fiji	58.46
200 m freestyle	Matelita Buadromo Fiji	2:08.58	May Toven New Caledonia	2:10.21	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	2:11.36
400 m freestyle	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	4:27.96	Matelita Buadromo Fiji	4:36.98	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	4:42.35
800 m freestyle	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	9:21.39	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	9:37.72	Rosemarie Rova Fiji	10:03.00

50 m backstroke	Lushavel Stickland Samoa	29.96	Cheyenne Rova Fiji	31.11	Jelani Wetzell Samoa	31.76
100 m backstroke	Emma Terebo New Caledonia	1:02.96	Lushavel Stickland Samoa	1:04.43 NR	Lauren Sale Samoa	1:06.65
200 m backstroke	Lauren Sale Samoa	2:20.84	Angeline Tregoat Tahiti	2:29.31	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	2:31.51 NR

50 m breaststroke	Moana Wind Fiji	33.39 NR	Tiali Scanian American Samoa	33.98 NR	Poerani Betrand Tahiti	34.09
100 m breaststroke	Moana Wind Fiji	1:13.79 NR	Poerani Betrand Tahiti	1:14.23 NR	Tiali Scanlan American Samoa	1:15.08 NR
200 m breaststroke	Poerani Bertrand Tahiti	2:40.73 NR	Moana Wind Fiji	2:45.29	Adelaine Williams New Caledonia	2:51.70

50 m butterfly	May Toven New Caledonia	28.45	Armelle Hidrio New Caledonia	28.92	Lushavel Stickland Samoa	29.53
100 m butterfly	May Toven New Caledonia	1:03.32	Lauren Sale Samoa	1:04.27 NR	Julie Decaix New Caledonia	1:06.91
200 m butterfly	Julie Decaix New Caledonia	2:30.94	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	2:31.24	Rosemarie Rova Fiji	2:32.04

200 m individual medley	Lauren Sale Samoa	2:24.12 NR	Matelita Buadromo Fiji	2:24.53	May Toven New Caledonia	2:27.67
400 m individual medley	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	5:13.91	Angeline Tregoat Tahiti	5:16.08	Rosemarie Rova Fiji	5:30.93

4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Fiji Yolani Blake Cheyenne Rova Rosemarie Rova Matelita Buadromo	3:58.24	New Caledonia Armelle Hidrio Julie Decaix May Toven Emma Terebo	4:00.56	Samoa Lauren Sale Andrea Schuster Jelani Wetzell Lushavel Stickland	4:00.90 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	New Caledonia May Toven Julie Decaix Maiana Flament Emma Terebo	8:53.06	Samoa Jelani Wetzell Andrea Schuster Kaiya Brown Lauren Sale	8:58.24 NR	Fiji Yolani Blake Cheyenne Rova Marion Kotobalavu Rosemarie Rova	9:26.85
4 × 100 m medley relay	New Caledonia Emma Terebo May Toven Julie Decaix Armelle Hidrio	4:27.32 NR	Fiji Cheyenne Rova Moana Wind Matelita Buadromo Yolani Blake	4:27.78 NR	Tahiti Angeline Tregoat Poerani Bertrand Alizee Diaz Reva Reignier	4:35.58 NR

5 km open water	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	1:10:40	Maiana Flament New Caledonia	1:11:41	Matelita Buadromo Fiji	1:19:27
GR Games record for the Pacific Games/South Pacific Games

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	New Caledonia Julien-Pierre Goyetche Armelle Hidrio Emma Terebo Florent Janin	1:39.79 GR, NR	Fiji Netani Ross Epeli Rabua Cheyenne Rova Yolani Blake	1:40.89	Tahiti Nicolas Vermorel Teiki Dupont Angeline Tregoat Reva Reignier	1:41.67 NR
4 × 50 m medley relay	New Caledonia Emma Terebo Thomas Oswald May Toven Florent Janin	1:49.18 GR, NR	Fiji Netani Ross Taichi Vakasama Matelita Buadromo Yolani Blake	1:51.81 NR	Tahiti	1:53.33 NR
GR Games record for the Pacific Games/South Pacific Games

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Swimming – Samoa Aquatic Centre". Samoa 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
^ "Sport: Pacific Games accommodation plans still to be finalised". Radio New Zealand. 23 October 2018. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.
^ Pavitt, Michael (12 February 2019). "Samoa 2019 award contracts to refurbish venues and supply sports equipment for Pacific Games". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.
^ Nataro, Ivamere (21 January 2018). "Aquatic Centre in good shape for 2019 Games". The Samoa Observer. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Swimming sports technical manual version 1.0" (PDF). Samoa 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.

External links

Results book

[swim-2019-1] "Swimming – Samoa Aquatic Centre". Samoa 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

[rnz-oct-2018-2] "Sport: Pacific Games accommodation plans still to be finalised". Radio New Zealand. 23 October 2018. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.

[itg-feb-2019-3] Pavitt, Michael (12 February 2019). "Samoa 2019 award contracts to refurbish venues and supply sports equipment for Pacific Games". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.

[so-jan-2018-4] Nataro, Ivamere (21 January 2018). "Aquatic Centre in good shape for 2019 Games". The Samoa Observer. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.

[swim-tech-man-1.0-5] "Swimming sports technical manual version 1.0" (PDF). Samoa 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.

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