Swimming at the

2011 Pacific Games The 2011 Pacific Games (officially known as NC 2011) took place in Nouméa, New Caledonia, from August 27 to September 10, 2011. Nouméa was the 14th host of the Pacific Games. Upon closure of the registration for entries, "some 4,300 athletes" h ...

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was dominated by the host team

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who won thirty-three of the forty events contested. The events in the pool – nineteen each for men and women – were held between 29 August and 2 September at the Verlaguet Aquatic Center. The men's and women's open water events were held on Monday 5 September in the waters off

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Naval Base. All pool events were swum in a long-course (50 metre) pool and the open water events were 5 kilometres in length.

Event schedule

Note: Below are the events by days. Event order presumably was alternate women / men. Monday, September 5: Men's and Women's 5K Open Water swim.

Medal summary

New Caledonia's

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entered all twenty women's events and won a medal in all of them, including sixteen golds. Host country New Caledonia won the gold medal in all women's events.

Medal table

Men

Women

Participating countries

88 swimmers from 11 countries were entered in the swimming events at the 2011 Games. The teams entered in swimming were: * (1) * (11) * (9) * (3) *

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(3) * (36) * (6) * (12) * (3) * (1) * (3)

References

Sources

External links

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Swimming at the 2011 Pacific GamesResults
on the French Swimming Federation website. {{Swimming at the Pacific Games 2011 Pacific Games

Pacific Games The Pacific Games (French: Jeux du Pacifique), is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Oceania. The inaugural Games took place in 1963 in Suva, Fiji, and most recently in 2019 in Apia, Samoa. The Games were ...

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