1975 South Pacific Games
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Tumon (main stadium) Hagåtña (swimming)
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| Country | Guam | ||
| Nations participating | 13 | ||
| Athletes participating | 1,205 | ||
| Events | 16 sports | ||
| Opening ceremony | August 1, 1975 | ||
| Closing ceremony | August 10, 1975 | ||
| Officially opened by | Ricardo Bordallo | ||
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The 1975 South Pacific Games, held in Guam from 1 to 10 August 1975, was the fifth edition of the South Pacific Games. A total of 1,205 athletes (907 men and 298 women) participated in a rain-affected games which had only one clear day out of the ten scheduled.
The hosting of the event, originally planned for 1974, had met trouble from the start. Carlos Comacho, the Governor of Guam in 1972, had been opposed to spending any government money on the games. With a new Governor in office in late 1973, the games were rescheduled for 1975. However, preparations for the events did not progress smoothly, and visiting teams were disappointed with the condition of some of the venues and the scheduling in the middle of the rainy season. The games went ahead despite the logistical problems. Sixteen South Pacific Games records were broken in the track and field athletics events alone.
Thirteen Pacific nations or territories competed at the Games:
There were 16 sports contested at the 1975 South Pacific Games:
New Caledonia topped the (unofficial) medal count.
^* The medal table published on the Pacific Games Council webpage (as at May 2015), does not include medals for Tonga, Solomon Islands, Nauru, or the Trust Territory of Micronesia. The medal columns for these countries have been marked up with a (blue background) in the table above with revised counts. The totals on the right and at the bottom of the table are also amended to account for the changes.
^† Partial totals for Tonga and the Solomons (i.e. their medals won in Athletics) have been added to the table. Until the complete tallies are entered, the true rankings and totals for the 1975 games can not be shown.
^‡ The final medal tally for Micronesia, a silver medal for women's softball and another for men's featherweight weightlifting, has been added. The bronze medal won by Nauru for women's softball, has also been included.
^§ Cook Islands did not attend the 1975 games, but the table on the Sporting Pulse website lists medals as being won by the territory. These have been struck out from the table above in the row with a (grey background).
^a Team sizes were reported in Pacific Island Monthly for many of the countries, including: American Samoa, Fiji. Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Wallis and Futuna.
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