Rugby sevens at the Pacific Games was played for the first time at the 1999 South Pacific Games with only the men's tournament. The women's tournament was contested for the first time at the 2011 Pacific Games. The champions for the inaugural rugby sevens tournament in 1999 were Fiji for the men and in 2011 were also Fiji for the women. Prior to 1999, 15-a-side matches were played between the 1963–1995 games.
In 2014, Australia and New Zealand were invited to participate in some events for the 2015 Pacific Games, and the Australian women's sevens team was subsequently confirmed as a competitor for the women's tournament in Port Moresby. [1]
Year | Host | Final | Bronze medal match | Ref | |||||||
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Gold medal | Score | Silver medal | Bronze medal | Score | Fourth place | ||||||
1999 | Santa Rita | Fiji | 40–12 | Papua New Guinea | Vanuatu | 26–7 | Solomon Islands | [2] | |||
2003 | Suva | Fiji | 43–10 | Cook Islands | Samoa | 50–0 | Tonga | [3] | |||
2007 | Apia | Fiji | 26–19 | Samoa | Papua New Guinea | 31–5 | Solomon Islands | [4] [5] [6] | |||
2011 | Noumea | Samoa | 21–19 | Fiji | Papua New Guinea | 10–5 | Niue | [7] | |||
2015 | Port Moresby | Fiji | 33–7 | Samoa | Tonga | 19–12 | Papua New Guinea | [8] | |||
2019 | Apia | Fiji | 7–5 | Samoa | Tonga | 19–10 | Cook Islands | [9] | |||
2023 | Honiara | Fiji | 19–5 | Samoa | Tonga | 19–7 | Papua New Guinea | [10] [11] | |||
2027 | Pirae | – | – | ||||||||
Women's rugby sevens was first contested in 2011 since the introduction of the 7-a-side format of rugby at the Pacific Games. [12] Fiji have dominated the women's game having won every tournament to date.
Year | Host | Final | Bronze medal match | Ref | |||||||
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Gold medal | Score | Silver medal | Bronze medal | Score | Fourth place | ||||||
2011 | Noumea | Fiji | 43–7 | Samoa | Papua New Guinea | 19–5 | New Caledonia | ||||
2015 | Port Moresby | Fiji | 12–10 | Australia | Papua New Guinea | 15–0 | New Caledonia | ||||
2019 | Apia | Fiji | 14–5 | Australia | Papua New Guinea | 28–12 | Samoa | ||||
2023 | Honiara | Fiji | 17–7 | Papua New Guinea | Wallis and Futuna | 17–7 | Tonga | ||||
2027 | Pirae | – | – | ||||||||
The all-time medal table for rugby sevens at the Pacific Games, including the South Pacific Games, from 1999–present is collated in the table below.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Fiji | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
2 | Samoa | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Papua New Guinea | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
5 | Cook Islands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6 | Tonga | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
7 | Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (7 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |
Only men's rugby sevens have been contested at the Pacific Mini Games.
Year | Host | Final | Bronze medal match | Ref | |||||||
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Gold medal | Score | Silver medal | Bronze medal | Score | Fourth place | ||||||
1997 | Pago Pago | Samoa | 57–0 | American Samoa | Solomon Islands | 25–17 | Niue | [13] [14] | |||
2009 | Rarotonga | Samoa | 36–12 | Fiji | Tonga | 38–12 | Niue | [15] | |||
2013 | Mata-Utu | Samoa | 31–12 | Fiji | Tonga | 19–12 | Papua New Guinea | [16] | |||
2017 | Port Vila | Samoa | 14–7 | Fiji | Tonga | 24–19 | Solomon Islands | [17] [18] [19] | |||
The all-time medal table for rugby sevens at the Pacific Mini Games, including the South Pacific Mini Games, from 1997–present is collated in the table below.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Samoa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
2 | Fiji | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
3 | American Samoa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Tonga | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
5 | Solomon Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (5 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
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