Scoreboard at a glance
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Only two of the 14 territories represented at the Fourth South Pacific Games at Papeete went home without a medal. They were the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the Republic of Nauru. The GEIC never has had much luck. It won a silver and a bronze in Suva in 1963, nothing in Noumea in 1967, and did not take part at Port Moresby in 1969. Nauru won nothing in Suva but didn't do badly in Noumea or Port Moresby. But its contingent at the last minute was cut to only a softball team for Papeete, and thus it obviously lost opportunities for more medals.
Details of the medals won are given below. The points score is un official, and it is compiled on the basis of three points for a gold medal, two for a silver and one for a bronze.
New Caledonia Gold 33 Silver 32 Bronze 27 Points 190 Papua New Guinea 28 28 21 161
French Polynesia
22 24 24 138 Fiji 16 17 13 95 Western Samoa 9 3 5 38 Guam 3 3 8 23 Tonga 4 3 4 22 American Samoa 2 12 16 Wallis and Futuna 2 1 6 14 Solomons 2 2 6 New Hebrides - 1 4 6 Cook Islands 1 3 5 Gilbert and Ellice Islands Nauru