Shooting at the 2015 Pacific Games

Shooting at the 2015 Pacific Games was held from 6–11 July 2015 at the June Valley Shooting Range in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.[1][2] Tahiti and Fiji were the most successful nations, winning three gold medals each. Medals were initially awarded for teams in the pistol shooting section,[3] but as team events for pistols were not included in the official schedule those medals were withdrawn.[4]

Medal summary

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Tahiti34310
2 Fiji3216
3 New Caledonia2215
4 Papua New Guinea1203
5 Norfolk Island1124
6 Samoa1034
7 Guam0011
Total 11 11 11 33

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze Ref
10 m air pistol  Gabriel Lan San (TAH) 176.1  Kevin Coulter (NFK) 175.4  Douglas Creek (NFK) 156.7 [3][3][5]

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze Ref
10 m air pistol  Maeva Darius (TAH) 181.3  Tania Mairi (PNG) 173.9  Amalia Duenas (GUM) 154.3 [3][6]
25 m pistol  Tania Mairi (PNG) 490  Carmelita Donald (PNG) 465  Marie-Louise Darius (TAH) 457 [7][8]

Mixed

Event Gold Silver Bronze Ref
25 m pistol  Douglas Creek (NFK) 526  Freddy Yen Kway (TAH) 524  Johan Perchard (NCL) 522 [9]
25 m standard pistol  Faiyum Khan (FIJ) 505  Freddy Yen Kway (TAH) 504  Douglas Creek (NFK) 490 [upper-alpha 1][10]
Single barrel
  Kévin Lepigeon (NCL) 96  Phillippe Simoni (NCL) 95  Eddie Chen Pao (SAM) 95 [11]
Single barrel – team  New Caledonia
Kévin Lepigeon
Marion Roumagne
Phillippe Simoni		 279  Tahiti
Moeava Bambridge
Tuanua Degage
Jean-Hiro Pratx
 278  Samoa
Leasi Galuvao
Paul Loibl
Eddie Chen Pao		 275 [12][upper-alpha 2]
Point score
  Eddie Chen Pao (SAM) 295  Tuanua Degage (TAH) 293  Glenn Kable (FIJ) 289 [14]
Point score – team  Tahiti
Moeava Bambridge
Tuanua Degage
Hiro Praxt 		859  Fiji
Adarsh Datt
Glenn Kable
Christian Stephen		 858  Samoa
Leasi Galuvao
Paul Loibl
Eddie Chen Pao		 853 [14]
Single rise
  Glenn Kable (FIJ) 121  Christian Stephen (FIJ) 120  Moeava Bambridge (TAH) 99 [15]
Single rise – team
  Fiji
Adarsh Datt
Glenn Kable
Christian Stephen		 295  New Caledonia
Walter Le Pironnec
Kévin Lepigeon
Marion Roumagne		 294  Tahiti
Tuanua Degage
Alexandre Lehartel
Jean-Hiro Pratx		 291 [16]

Participating nations

There were eight countries competing:

Notes

  1. ↑ The 25 metre standard pistol (mixed) event was won by Fiji's Faiyum Khan, as reported in The Fiji Times.[17] The photograph accompanying the report shows Fayam on the podium as the gold medallist with Freddy Yen Kway from Tahiti as the silver medallist, and Norfolk Island's Douglas Creek as the bronze medallist.[18] Norfolk won a total of four medals in shooting at the 2015 Games.[19][20]
  2. ↑ As reported on the Port Moresby 2015 official website, gold, silver and bronze in the single barrel (mixed) team event was won by New Caledonia, Tahiti and Samoa, respectively.[12] The photograph accompanying the article shows (L-R) Tahiti's Moeava Bambridge, Jean-Hiro Pratx and Tuanua Degage as the silver medallists, Marion Roumagne, Kévin Lepigeon and Phillippe Simon as the gold medallists, and Eddie Chen Pao, Paul Loibl and Leasi Galuvao as the bronze medallists.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Shooting events competition schedule" (PDF). Oceania Shooting. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Shooting schedule". Port Moresby 2015. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015. |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Fiji Shooting Team Bags Silver In Men's 10m Air Pistol Team Event". Sporting Pulse. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Error In Shooting Medal Presentation". Port Moresby 2015. 17 July 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shooting 10m Air Pistol Male". Port Moresby 2015. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015. |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)
  6. ↑ "Shooting 10m Air Pistol Female". Port Moresby 2015. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "PNG bags gold and silver in women's 25m shooting". Port Moresby 2015. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Shooting 25m Pistol Female". Port Moresby 2015. 7 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Etchells, Daniel (8 July 2015). "Creek shoots Norfolk Island to first Pacific Games gold medal on action-packed fourth day". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Shooting 25m Standard Pistol". Port Moresby 2015. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "New Caledonia triumphant in single barrel shooting". EMTV. 11 July 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  12. 1 2 Mark-Sabbath, Joyce (11 July 2015). "New Caledonia triumphant in single barrel shooting". Port Moresby 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  13. ↑ Wesley, David (11 July 2015). "New Caledonia takes gold in single barrel (DTL), Tahiti silver and Samoa bronze". Port Moresby 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  14. 1 2 "Samoan shotgunner Chen Pao pockets points score gold". Port Moresby 2015. 11 July 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "Fiji's Kable wires in for single rise shooting gold". Port Moresby 2015. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  16. ↑ Shooting Single Rise Mix. Port Moresby 2015.
  17. ↑ Chand, Shalveen (10 July 2015). "Khan shoots his way to gold". Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  18. ↑ Chand, Shalveen (10 July 2015). "Faiyum Murtaza Khan with his gold medal at June Valley,Port Moresby, PNG, yesterday". Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  19. ↑ Hardgrave, Gary (9 July 2015). "Doug Creek earns a little river Of gold for Norfolk". Norfolk Online News. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  20. ↑ "Tiny Norfolk wins big". Sports Pulse. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
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