It was finals day today (Saturday) at the BCI Stadium and Fiji continued their winning ways on the track. They scooped the gold medals in the women’s and men’s 400m hurdles, the women’s and men’s 4x100m relays, and the women’s and men’s 4x400m relays. Fiji also won silver in the women’s long jump. French Polynesia took the gold. The men’s discus medals went to New Caledonia (gold and bronze) and Tahiti (silver).

In the men’s triple jump it was New Caledonia first and second with Tahiti third. Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands were first, second and third in the women’s shot put. New Caledonia won the women’s half marathon and Georges Richmond (Tahiti) the men’s.

Fiji defeated PNG in an exciting battle for gold and silver in the netball final. The real champions were probably the Fiji supporters who cheered, danced and waved banners to encourage their girls in an off court display that matched the netballers’ enthusiasm on court. The Cook Islands defeated Tokelau in the bronze medal playoff. Out on the water Tahiti dominated the va’a marathon races – as expected - taking gold in the women’s 20km and the men’s 30km races. But the Cook Islands’ women will be happy with their silver and the men with their bronze.

Fiji gained two more gold medals when the men’s team defeated Tahiti and the women’s team defeated Vanuatu in the table tennis teams finals. In the squash teams event Papua New Guinea won the women’s gold medal, Samoa the silver and New Caledonia the bronze. The same three teams picked up the men’s team medals – New Caledonia the gold, PNG the silver and Samoa the bronze.

Ten boxing gold medals were decided tonight (Saturday). Samoa’s Kaisa Ioane won the flyweight title; Tahiti’s Jason Tuihaa the bantamweight; Nauru’s Colan Caleb the featherweight; New Caledonia’s Gyan Athalae the lightweight; Tahiti’s Jean-Loius Albertini the light welterweight; Nauru's Joseph Deireragea the welterweight; Samoa's Afaese Fata Kalepi the middleweight; American Samoa's Faleauto Manutulila the light heavyweight; Tahiti's Richardet Mahanora the heavyweight and Tahiti's Tafai Nena the super heavyweight.

Fiji still lead the medals table with 48 medals; 21 gold, 12 silver and 15 bronze. Tahiti are second, also with 48 medals, with 19 gold. New Caledonia have 40 medals, 15 gold and the Cook Islands 24 medals, 7 gold.

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