Swimming at the 1975 South Pacific Games

Swimming at the 1975 South Pacific Games took place in Agana, the capital of Guam on 2–9 August 1975.[1][2] It was the fifth edition of the South Pacific Games. Four new events were included in 1975 (4 x 200 metre Freestyle relay and 100m Breaststroke added to both the men's and women's programs). Of the other events previously contested, only one remained without a new South Pacific Games record at the end of the competition after sixteen records were broken in Guam. The teams from the French-administered territories of French Polynesia (Tahiti) and New Caledonia won the most gold medals. The most successful individual swimmer, however, was Papua New Guinea's Charlie Martin who won eight medals, four of which were gold.[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	French Polynesia (TAH)	8	6	5	19
2	New Caledonia (NCL)	8	5	7	20
3	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	5	9	7	21
4	Guam (GUM)	0	1	1	2
5	Fiji (FIJ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		21	21	21	63

Men

French Polynesia (Tahiti) and Papua New Guinea won 7 and 5 gold medals respectively in the 12 men's events.[4][5][6][7][8]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m Freestyle	Charles Martin  (PNG)	54.71  ^GR	R. Chapman  (TAH)	57.19	C. Ceran  (TAH)	57.77
200m Freestyle	Henry Noble  (TAH)	2:04.28  ^GR	Charles Martin  (PNG)	2:04.71	R. Chapman  (TAH)	2:05.94
400m Freestyle	Henry Noble  (TAH)	4:28.58  ^GR	M. Hutchings  (PNG)	4:34.89	E Verlaguet  (NCL)	4:37.81
1500m Freestyle	M. Hutchings  (PNG)	18:16.18	E Verlaguet  (NCL)	18:24.11	R. Chapman  (TAH)	18:42.21
100m Backstroke	Charles Martin  (PNG)	1:03.12  ^GR	Henry Noble  (TAH)	1:04.47	C. Ceran  (TAH)	1:10.34
100m Breaststroke^NE	P. Hunter  (TAH)	1:15.70	G. Burke  (GUM)	1:16.06	O. Moi  (PNG)	1:16.30
200m Breaststroke	P. Hunter  (TAH)	2:48.12	Donald Martin  (PNG)	2:48.20	G. Burke  (GUM)	2:49.54
100m Butterfly	Charles Martin  (PNG)	1:00.33  ^GR	Andre Mouren  (NCL)	1:03.73	Donald Martin  (PNG)	1:04.84
200m I.M.	Charles Martin  (PNG)	2:21.29  ^GR	R. Chapman  (TAH)	2:22.64	M. Hutchings  (PNG)	2:24.32
4 × 100 m Medley relay	French Polynesia	4:24.82  ^GR	Papua New Guinea	4:27.44	New Caledonia	4:36.60
4 × 100 m Freestyle relay	French Polynesia	3:48.59  ^GR	Papua New Guinea	3:53.68	New Caledonia	3:59.94
4 × 200 m Freestyle relay^NE	French Polynesia	8:34.61	Papua New Guinea	8:44.94	New Caledonia	8:56.28

Women

New Caledonia dominated the women's events, winning 8 of the 9 gold medals available.[4][5][9][10][11]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m Freestyle	Maeva Lavigne  (TAH)	1:04.62  ^GR	D. Maussion  (NCL)	1:04.64	L. Fisher  (FIJ)	1:05.89
200m Freestyle	Y. Saminadin  (NCL)	2:18.54  ^GR	Maeva Lavigne  (TAH)	2:20.23	C. Bernados  (NCL)	2:21.19
400m Freestyle	Y. Saminadin  (NCL)	4:51.41  ^GR	P. LeGras  (NCL)	4:53.09	D. Maussion  (NCL)	5:05.07
800m Freestyle	Y. Saminadin  (NCL)	9:48.20  ^GR	P. LeGras  (NCL)	10:14.7	D. Maussion  (NCL)
100m Breaststroke^NE	P. LeGras  (NCL)	1:24.01	L. Moyle  (PNG)	1:25.66	J. Kohnke  (PNG)	1:29.75
200m Breaststroke	P. LeGras  (NCL)	3:00.66  ^GR	L. Moyle  (PNG)	3:09.55	J. Kohnke  (PNG)	3:12.79
4 × 100 m Medley relay	New Caledonia	5:02.00  ^GR	French Polynesia	5:05.96	Papua New Guinea	5:29.78
4 × 100 m Freestyle relay	New Caledonia	4:26.22  ^GR	French Polynesia	4:29.69	Papua New Guinea	4:33.78
4 × 200 m Freestyle relay^NE	New Caledonia	9:32.03	Papua New Guinea	9:57.29	French Polynesia	10:00.81

Notes

^NE denotes new event to the South Pacific Games.

^GR denotes South Pacific Games record time.

Participating countries

Teams entered in the swimming competition included:

•  Fiji
•  Guam
• Micronesia
•  New Caledonia
•  Papua New Guinea
•  French Polynesia

References

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