Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
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2015 Pacific Games
The 15th 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.
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Port Moresby
(; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
was held at the BSP Arena and PNG Power Dome on 3–12 July 2015.
Guam won the gold medal in the men's tournament, defeating Fiji by 78–61 in the final.
Tahiti secured the bronze medal by beating hosts Papua New Guinea by 83–73.
Fiji won the gold medal in the women's tournament, defeating American Samoa by 75–61.
Tahiti beat Papua New Guinea by 62–51 to win the bronze medal.
Medal summary
Medal table
Results
Participating nations
Ten countries competed in basketball at the 2015 Pacific Games:
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Men's tournament
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Classification playoffs
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Top six playoffs
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Finals
Semi-finals and medal finals were played at the Power Dome on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July, respectively.
Semi-finals
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Third place
Final
Women's tournament
Group A
Group B
Classification playoffs
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Top four playoffs
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Finals
The medal matches were played at the PNG Power Dome on Saturday 11 July.
Third place
Final
See also
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Basketball at the Pacific Games
References
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Events at the 2015 Pacific Games
2015
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