Swimming at the 2003 South Pacific Games

The swimming competition at the 2003 South Pacific Games took place from June 30-July 7, 2003 (Monday-Monday) in Suva, Fiji.

The pool events were held on the first 6 days in the 50m (long-course) pool at Fiji's National Aquatics Centre, and a 3-kilometre ("3K") open water race was held at Pacific Harbour on Monday, July 7, 2003. Originally, a 5K open water race was to be contested--5K being a more widely internally accepted race distance than a 3K. However, rough conditions on-course pushed the turn markers/buoys out of position and the length of the race needed to be changed to accommodate the conditions.^[1]

Overall, Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini (male) and New Caledonia's Diane Bui Duyet (female) were named "Swimmers of the Meet" for their overall performances: Pini won 7 events, 4 in record time and earned 12 medals overall; Bui-Duyet won 10 with 5 SPG records, and 11 medals total.^[2]

1 Event schedule
2 Results
- 2.1 Men
- 2.2 Women
3 Participating countries
4 References

Event schedule

Date	Mon. June 30	Tue. July 1	Wed. July 2	Thu. July 3	Fri. July 4	Sat. July 5
E v e n t s	50 back (M) 100 free (W) 100 breast (M) 400 I.M. (F) 200 free (M) 800 Free Relay (W)	50 back (W) 100 fly (M) 200 free (W) 400 I.M. (M) 200 breast (W) 800 Free Relay (M)	50 breast (W) 50 breast (M) 400 free (W) 100 free (M) 100 back (W) 200 back (M) 400 Free Relay (W)	400 free (M) 100 fly (W) 50 fly (M) 100 breast (W) 200 breast (M) 800 free (W) 400 Free Relay (M)	50 free (M) 200 I.M. (W) 200 fly (M) 50 fly (W) 100 back (M) 400 Medley Relay (W)	200 fly (W) 200 I.M. (M) 50 free (W) 1500 free (M) 200 back (W) 400 Medley Relay (M)

Monday, July 7: men's and women's 3,000m Open Water swim

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Carl Probert Fiji	23.61	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	23.72	David Thevenot New Caledonia	23.92
100m Freestyle	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	51.61	Carl Probert Fiji	52.04	David Thevenot New Caledonia	52.17
200m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	1:54.47	David Thevenot New Caledonia	1:54.55	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	1:55.12
400m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	4:11.02	Antoine Dahlia New Caledonia	4:15.77	Tunui Cowan Tahiti	4:20.89
1500m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	^[3]	Benoit Riviere New Caledonia	^[3]	Fabian Dubois-Duvivier New Caledonia	^[3]

50m Backstroke	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	26.49 GR	Sebastien Tailhan New Caledonia Carl Probert Fiji	29.16	none
100m Backstroke	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	56.90 GR	Sebastien Tailhan New Caledonia	1:01.28	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	1:02.99
200m Backstroke	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	2:08.54	Sebastien Tailhan New Caledonia	2:12.56	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	2:13.77

50m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia Tahiti	29.94	Matthew Sheehan Papua New Guinea	30.97	Stephen Hirzel New Caledonia	31.53
100m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia Tahiti	1:06.43 GR	Adrien Thomas New Caledonia	1:07.69	Stephen Hirzel New Caledonia	1:08.97
200m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia Tahiti	2:27.35	Adrien Thomas New Caledonia	2:27.74	Stephen Hirzel New Caledonia	2:29.61

50m Butterfly	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	24.62 GR	Daniel O'Keeffe Guam	25.90	David Thevenot New Caledonia	26.09
100m Butterfly	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	55.18 GR	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	57.34	Daniel O'Keeffe Guam	57.94
200m Butterfly	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	2:09.36	Laurent Douarche New Caledonia	2:12.00	Antoine Dahlia New Caledonia	2:13.45

200m I.M.	Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea	2:09.38	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	2:10.08	Daniel O'Keeffe Guam	2:13.67
400m I.M	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	4:44.23	Dean Palacios Northern Marianas	4:50.31	Antoine Dahlia New Caledonia	4:57.99

400m Free Relay	New Caledonia David Thevenot Olivier Saminadin Laurent Douarche Antoine Dahlia	3:34.28 GR	Papua New Guinea Leo Biggs Matthew Sheehan Ben Wells Ryan Pini	3:36.26	Tahiti Yann Lausan Tamatoa Ellacott Rainui Teriipaia Tunui Cowan	3:43.11
800m Free Relay	New Caledonia David Thevenot Laurent Douarche Antoine Dahlia Olivier Saminadin	8:00.81	Papua New Guinea Leo Biggs Ben Wells Matthew Sheehan Ryan Pini	8:11.91	Tahiti Tunui Cowan Tamatoa Ellacott Yann Lausan Rainui Teriipaia	8:21.66
400m Medley Relay	New Caledonia Sebastien Tailhan Adrien Thomas Olivier Saminadin David Thevenot	3:57.89 GR	Papua New Guinea Ryan Pini Matthew Sheehan Ben Wells Leo Biggs	4:00.79	Tahiti Tunui Cowan Rainui Teriipaia Tamatoa Ellacott Yann Lausan	4:07.50

3K Open Water	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	37:41.09	Antoine Dahlia New Caledonia	38:10.37	Tunui Cowan Tahiti	38:19.37

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering Fiji	27.03	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane Papua New Guinea	27.11	Florence Alaux New Caledonia	27.98
100m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering Fiji	58.95	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane Papua New Guinea	59.21	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	59.58
200m Freestyle	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane Papua New Guinea	2:11.03	Florence Alaux New Caledonia	2:11.88	Lacken Malateste Tahiti	2:14.74
400m Freestyle	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	4:42.93	Vanessa Claubau New Caledonia	4:43.99	Aurelia Dubois-Duvivier New Caledonia	4:45.07
800m Freestyle	Vanessa Claubau New Caledonia	9:38.09	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	9:44.58	Aurelia Dubois-Duvivier New Caledonia	9:53.60

50m Backstroke	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	30.28 GR	Caroline Pickering Fiji	31.18	Marie Simon New Caledonia	32.38
100m Backstroke	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	1:05.28 GR	Caroline Pickering Fiji	1:07.05	Delphine Bui Duyet New Caledonia	1:10.83
200m Backstroke	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	2:26.58 GR	Delphine Bui Duyet New Caledonia	2:30.26	Margo Boyd New Caledonia	2:34.25

50m Breaststroke	Manina Tehei New Caledonia	34.80 GR	Rachel Ah Koy Fiji	35.63	Vuki Kuinikoro Fiji	36.63
100m Breaststroke	Rachel Ah Koy Fiji	1:14.77 GR NR	Manina Tehei New Caledonia	1:17.00	Melissa Carpin New Caledonia	1:20.32
200m Breaststroke	Melissa Carpin New Caledonia	2:46.86	Rachel Ah Koy Fiji	2:47.73	Manina Tehei New Caledonia	2:49.84

50m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	28.42 GR	Caroline Pickering Fiji	30.19	Florence Alaux New Caledonia	30.45
100m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	1:03.75 GR	Florence Alaux New Caledonia	1:07.08	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane Papua New Guinea	1:08.16
200m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	2:27.38	Lacken Malateste Tahiti	2:35.06	Marie-Michelle Horngren New Caledonia	2:39.58

200m I.M.	Diane Bui Duyet New Caledonia	2:27.46	Rachel Ah Koy Fiji	2:29.79	Caroline Pickering Fiji	2:29.92
400m I.M	Lacken Malateste Tahiti	5:31.26	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	5:38.19	Raina Vongue Tahiti	5:40.69

400m Free Relay	New Caledonia Florence Alaux Diane Bui Duyet Marie Simon Manina Tehei	4:04.68 GR	Fiji Caroline Pickering Jodie Barratt Rachel Ah Koy Raewyn Simpson	4:10.09 NR	Tahiti Nancy Lau Vaea Sichan Raina Vongue Lacken Malatste	4:20.56
800m Free Relay	New Caledonia Diane Bui Duyet Florence Alaux Charlotte Robin Aurelia Dubois-Duvivier	9:03.13 GR	Fiji Rachel Ah Koy Jodie Barratt Raewyn Simpson Caroline Pickering	9:15.46 NR	Tahiti Nancy Lau Vaea Sichan Raina Vongue Lacken Malatste	9:35.58
400m Medley Relay	New Caledonia Diane Bui Duyet Melissa Carpin Florence Alaux Marie Simon	9:03.13 GR	Fiji Caroline Pickering Rachel Ah Koy Jodie Barratt Raewyn Simpson	9:15.46 NR	Tahiti Lacken Malatste Vaea Sichan Raina Vongue Nancy Lau	9:35.58

3K Open Water	Charlotte Robin New Caledonia	38:26.71	Aurelia Dubois-Duvivier New Caledonia	39:14.75	Esther Meallet New Caledonia	41:59.84

Participating countries

101 swimmers from 9 countries took part in the swimming competitions at the 2003 South Pacific Games (team size in parenthesis):^[4]

Palau (4)
Papua New Guinea (10)
Samoa (6)
Tahiti (12)

References

2003 South Pacific Games - Swimming: Schedule/Results; retrieved 2009-07-03.

^ SPG'03-Swimming: New Caledonia dominates Open Water Swim, from SportingPulse.com; published 2003-07-07, retrieved 2009-07-04.
^ SPG'03-Swimming: Swimmers of the Meet Named, from SportingPulse.com; published 2003-07-05, retrieved 2009-07-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c The results of the men's 1500 free indicate that the top-3 times are: Saminadin-7:05.27, Riviere-7:14.46, and Dubois-Duvivier-7:48.61. This cannot be times for a full 1500m, as they are over 7 minutes faster than the World Record in the event; and over 9 minutes faster than the listed Games Record at the time (16:23.84)--none of the swimmers are listed as having better that, either. As is the case, no times are listed in the above table, pending confirmation of what happened in the event. However, the order-of-finish of the results is still presumed accurate, and is shown here. (2009-07-04)
^ SPG'03-Swimming: Team List by Country retrieved 2009-07-04.

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