Tonga at the 2019 Pacific Games

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Tonga at the
2019 Pacific Games
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IOC code TGA
8 July 2019 (2019-07-08) – 20 July 2019 (2019-07-20)
Competitors in 22 sports
Pacific Games appearances
2015

Tonga competed at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa from 7 to 20 July 2019. The country participated in 22 sports at the 2019 games. [1]

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Archery

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Athletics

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Badminton

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Tonga qualified eight players in Badminton for the 2019 Games. [2]

Women
Women

Basketball

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5x5

Men's basketball

  • TBC

Women's basketball

  • TBC

3x3

Men

  • TBC

Women

  • TBC

Boxing

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Football

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Men's football

Squad

TBC

Women's football

Squad

TBC

Golf

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Tonga nominated ten men and five women for the tournament in Samoa, [1] with six and one respectively to be omitted. The men's and women's teams will each have four players participating in the 2019 games.

Women
Men

Judo

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Lawn bowls

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Netball

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Outrigger canoeing

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Rugby league nines

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Men's rugby league

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Women's rugby league

  • TBC

Rugby sevens

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Men's sevens

Women's sevens

Shooting

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Swimming

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Table tennis

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Taekwondo

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Tennis

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Triathlon

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Volleyball

Beach volleyball

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Volleyball (Indoor)

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Weightlifting

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References

  1. 1 2 "Athlete List for Samoa 2019 Pacific Games". Pacific Games Council. 17 June 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019.
  2. "Pacific Games 2019". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.