Triathlon at the 2015 Pacific Games

Last updated October 01, 2019

Triathlon at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea was held on July 5, 2015.^[1]^[2]

A triathlon is a multisport race with three continuous and sequential endurance races. The word is of Greek origin, from τρεῖς or treis (three) and ἆθλος or athlos (competition).

The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby.

Port Moresby, also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea and the largest city in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the south-western coast of the Papuan Peninsula of the island of New Guinea. The city emerged as a trade centre in the second half of the 19th century. During World War II it was a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43 as a staging point and air base to cut off Australia from Southeast Asia and the Americas.

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Caledonia	3	0	2	5
2	Tahiti	0	3	0	3
3	Guam	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 nations)		3	3	3	9

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's sprint	Audric Lucini New Caledonia	59:04	Benjamin Zorgnotti Tahiti	1:02:11	Mathieu Szalamacha New Caledonia	1:03:41
Women's sprint	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	1:06:30	Salome de Marmorieres Tahiti	1:06:49	Céline Grymonprez New Caledonia	1:08:39
Mixed team sprint	New Caledonia Audric Lucini Charlotte Robin Mathieu Szalamacha	5 pts	French Polynesia Benjamin Zorgnotti Salome de Marmorieres Keanu Lorfevre	9 pts	Guam Patrick Comacho Peter Lombard II Ayshalynn Perez	25 pts

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References

↑ "Triathlon Schedule". Port Moresby 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
↑ "Results from the 2015 Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea – Triathlon". Oceania Sport Information Centre. 2015. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.

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[1] "Triathlon Schedule". Port Moresby 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

[tri-2015-2] "Results from the 2015 Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea – Triathlon". Oceania Sport Information Centre. 2015. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.