2023 Pacific Games

Two countries expressed interest and launched bids for the 17th games. Tahiti, French Polynesia, which hosted the event in 1971 and 1995, was the first to express their intentions in hosting the 2023 Games during the Pacific Games Council (PGC) General Assembly in Port Moresby in July 2015. The other bidder, the Solomon Islands, in 2016 expressed interest with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare launching the country's bid for a potential first time host of the quadrennial event.^[3] On 11 May 2016, during the PGC General Assembly in Port Vila, with the decision taken by the 22 members of the PGC awarded the hosting rights to the Solomon Islands. The margin of victory was reportedly a single vote.^[4]

2023 Pacific Games bidding results
City	PGA	Final Votes
Honiara	Solomon Islands	12
Pape'ete	Tahiti, French Polynesia	10

The 'Pacific Games 2023 Act 2017' created the National Hosting Authority (NHA) as the 2023 Pacific Games Hosting Authority to manage the duties of the committees created by the Act, including the Games Organizing Committee, Games Facilities Committee, and NHA Secretariat.^[5] The NHA's responsibility is to oversee the 2023 Pacific Games overall by making sure the Solomon Islands Pacific Games Association and the Government fulfill their obligations under the host contract and by managing the Games' financial planning and budgeting. This strives to ensure vital connection between public services, venues, and building. Additionally, NHA makes sure that the provisions of the Pacific Games 2023 Act (2017) are followed and upheld.^[6]

Security

Military and police personal from Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand will be assisting the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force throughout the games.^[7][8]

The games will take place in 11 venues spread across the host city of Honiara. The 2023 Pacific Games' sport venues are conveniently close to one another and can be reached in 5 to 30 minutes.^[9] The following venues have been confirmed:

• Aquatic Center (new) – Swimming
• DC Park (existing) – Archery, Sailing, Open water swimming, Touch rugby, Va’a/Outrigger canoeing
• Friendship Hall (new) – Basketball, Boxing, Netball, Volleyball
• HCC Sports Precinct (existing) – Table tennis
• Honiara Golf Club (existing) – Golf
• King George Hockey Turf (renovated) – Field hockey
• Lawson Tama Stadium (existing) – Football
• Maranatha Hall (existing) – Bodybuilding, Powerlifting, Weightlifting
• National Stadium (Solomon Islands)/Main Stadium (new) – Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, Athletics, Football, Rugby league 9s, Rugby 7s
• National Tennis Center (renovated) – Tennis
• SIFF Academy (existing) – 3x3 Basketball, Beach volleyball, Karate, Judo
  • SIFF Academy (Field 1 & 2) – Football

24 countries and territories participated: the 22 Pacific Games Associations (PGA), and two Associate members - New Zealand, and Australia.

As amended in the Pacific Games charter on 14 July 2019, in Apia, Samoa, the programme of the Pacific Games shall consist of 17 mandatory sports and 7 optionals who have to reflect the local interests.^[10][11] The following sports are scheduled for the games:

The 2023 schedule by session was released by the Games Organizing Committee on 19 June 2023.^[12]

Daily medal events for all sports are yet to be confirmed.

All dates are Solomon Islands Time (GMT+11)

OC

Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

November/December 2023		November														December		Events
		17 Fri	18 Sat	19 Sun	20 Mon	21 Tue	22 Wed	23 Thu	24 Fri	25 Sat	26 Sun	27 Mon	28 Tue	29 Wed	30 Thu	1 Fri	2 Sat
Ceremonies				OC													CC
Archery						●		●
Athletics												7	10	10	12	13	2
Basketball	Basketball	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	2
	3×3 Basketball													●	●	●	2
Bodybuilding												10
Boxing													●		●	4	9
Field hockey													●	●	●	2
Football		●	●		●	●		●	●			●	●		●	1	1
Golf							●	●	●	4
Judo					●	14
Karate
Netball												●	●	●	●	●	1
Outrigger canoeing												●	●
Powerlifting													8	4	4
Rugby league nines					●	●	2
Rugby sevens								●	●	2
Sailing					●	●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●
Swimming					8	8	8	8	8	3
Table tennis					●	●	4	●	2	8
Taekwondo
Tennis		●	●		●	2	●	●	●	●		●	●	1	4
Touch rugby												●	●	2	●	●	1
Triathlon
Volleyball	Indoor volleyball	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	2
	Beach volleyball												●	●	●	●	2
Weightlifting					15	12	12	12	9
Total events
Cumulative total
November/December		Fri 17	Sat 18	Sun 19	Mon 20	Tue 21	Wed 22	Thu 23	Fri 24	Sat 25	Sun 26	Mon 27	Tue 28	Wed 29	Thu 30	Fri 1	Sat 2	Events

  *   Host nation (Solomon Islands)

2023 Pacific Games medal table^[13]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Caledonia	82	57	58	197
2	Tahiti	57	53	50	160
3	Australia	50	24	10	84
4	Samoa	34	21	21	76
5	Papua New Guinea	29	37	39	105
6	Fiji	21	30	40	91
7	Solomon Islands*	12	36	30	78
8	New Zealand	10	13	12	35
9	Nauru	10	12	6	28
10	Guam	7	4	6	17
11	Cook Islands	5	3	10	18
12	Marshall Islands	5	3	2	10
13	Northern Mariana Islands	5	1	6	12
14	Wallis and Futuna	3	6	6	15
15	Vanuatu	3	5	11	19
16	Kiribati	3	2	6	11
17	Federated States of Micronesia	3	1	0	4
18	Tonga	2	8	9	19
19	Niue	1	0	1	2
20	Tuvalu	0	5	0	5
21	American Samoa	0	3	3	6
22	Palau	0	0	3	3
23	Norfolk Island	0	0	1	1
24	Tokelau	0	0	0	0
Totals (24 entries)		342	324	330	996

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the 2023 Pacific Games took place on Sunday, 19 November 2023, at the Solomon Islands National Stadium in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held on 2 December 2023, in Solomon Islands National Stadium.

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