Swimming at the 2007 South Pacific Games

The swimming competition at the 2007 South Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa was held:

• pool: August 27-September 1 at the Samoa Aquatic Centre in the Faleata Sports Complex; and
• open water: Monday, September 3 at the Aggie Grey's Complex, in Faleolo.

All pool events were swum in a long-course (50m) pool; the open water events were 5-kilometres in length (5K).

Event schedule

Monday, September 3: men's and women's 5,000m Open Water swim.

Note: The 2007 swimming event schedule is the same as that of the 2003 South Pacific Games, save the nomenclature change on the relays from "400" to "4x100" and "800" to "4x200".

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Gilles Dumesnil   New Caledonia	23.37  GR	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	23.53	David Thevenot   New Caledonia	23.94
100m Freestyle	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	50.80  GR	David Thevenot   New Caledonia	51.90	Christopher Duenas   Guam	52.28
200m Freestyle	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	1:50.72  GR	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	1:54.63	David Thevenot   New Caledonia	1:55.96
400m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	4:04.92  GR	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	4:11.37	Thomas Chacun   New Caledonia	4:13.13
1500m Freestyle	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	17:03.21	Thomas Chacun   New Caledonia	17:23.28	Heimanu Sichan   Tahiti	17:30.56
50m Backstroke	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	26.78	Laurent Douarche   New Caledonia	29.03	Julien Pierre Goyetche   New Caledonia	29.32
100m Backstroke	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	56.96	Julien Pierre Goyetche   New Caledonia	1:02.17	Laurent Douarche   New Caledonia	1:03.79
200m Backstroke	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	2:12.16	Julien Pierre Goyetche   New Caledonia	2:17.26	Heimanu Sichan   Tahiti	2:18.82
50m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti	29.35  GR	Stéphane Debaere   Tahiti	30.17	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	30.77
100m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti	1:05.11  GR	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	1:06.62	Stéphane Debaere   Tahiti	1:06.95
200m Breaststroke	Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti	2:23.58	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	2:23.71	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	2:26.61
50m Butterfly	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	24.55  GR	David Thevenot   New Caledonia	25.57	Julien Monot   New Caledonia	26.33
100m Butterfly	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	53.46  GR	Thomas Chacun   New Caledonia	57.91	Laurent Douarche   New Caledonia	58.40
200m Butterfly	Thomas Chacun   New Caledonia	2:09.36	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	2:09.43	Julien Monot   New Caledonia	2:26.79
200m I.M.	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	2:06.22  GR	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	2:07.27	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	2:15.15
400m I.M.[1]	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	4:40.62	Jean L'Huillier   New Caledonia	4:53.07	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	4:54.55
4x100m Free Relay	New Caledonia   David Thevenot   Gilles Dumesnil   Thomas Dahlia   Olivier Saminadin	3:31.25  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Tamatoa Cowan   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	3:37.09	Guam   Carlos Shimizu   Hernand Bonsembiante   Lucas Shimizu   Christopher Duenas	3:45.97
4x200m Free Relay	New Caledonia   Thomas Chacun   David Thevenot   Olivier Saminadin   Thomas Dahlia	7:57.20  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Tamatoa Cowan   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	8:11.89	Guam   Carols Shimizu   Hernand Bonsembiante   Lucas Shimizu   Christopher Duenas	8:30.70
4x100m Medley Relay	New Caledonia   Olivier Saminadin   Thomas Dahlia   Thomas Chacun   David Thevenot	3:56.58  GR	Tahiti   Heimanu Sichan   Rainui Teriipaia   Tunui Cowan   Stéphane Debaere	4:01.37	Samoa   Dane Chang   Chanel Silao   Akmal Khan   Joshua Marfleet	4:18.90
5K Open Water	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	1:05:43	Stéphane Debaere   Tahiti	1:06:42	Thomas Chacun   New Caledonia	1:08:30

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	26.37   GR	Armelle Hidrio   New Caledonia	27.30	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane   Papua New Guinea	27.34
100m Freestyle	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	57.20   GR	Reine-Victoria Weber   New Caledonia	58.80	Armelle Hidrio   New Caledonia	59.37
200m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	2:08.87   GR	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane   Papua New Guinea	2:11.61	Delphine Bui Duyet   New Caledonia	2:12.57
400m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	4:31.96   GR	Delphine Bui Duyet   New Caledonia	4:45.36	Emma Hunter   Samoa	4:47.93
800m Freestyle	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	9:15.17   GR	Coralie Williams   New Caledonia	9:56.72	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	10:07.65
50m Backstroke	Diane Bui Duyet   New Caledonia	30.42	Rine-Victoria Weber   New Caledonia	30.55	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	30.91
100m Backstroke	Reine-Victoria Weber   New Caledonia	1:03.50   GR	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	1:07.12	Nyitrue Simon   New Caledonia	1:09.31
200m Backstroke	Reine-Victoria Weber   New Caledonia	2:20.91   GR	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	2:28.34	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	2:42.23
50m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams   New Caledonia	34.00   GR	Rachel Ah Koy   Fiji	35.12	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	35.84
100m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams   New Caledonia	1:13.69   GR	Rachel Ah Koy   Fiji	1:16.46	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	1:17.35
200m Breaststroke	Adeline Williams   New Caledonia	2:46.00	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	2:46.56	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	2:52.36
50m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet   New Caledonia	27.51   GR	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	28.51   NR	Reine-Victoria Weber   New Caledonia	28.88
100m Butterfly	Diane Bui Duyet   New Caledonia	1:01.30   GR	Caroline Pickering   Fiji	1:03.65   NR	Nyitrue Simon   New Caledonia	1:05.44
200m Butterfly	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	2:27.80	Nyitrue Simon   New Caledonia	2:34.18	Coralie Williams   New Caledonia	2:40.73
200m I.M.	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	2:25.24   GR	Rachel Ah Koy   Fiji	2:26.96	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane   Papua New Guinea	2:29.44
400m I.M	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	5:05.72   GR	Coralie Williams   New Caledonia	5:22.95	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	5:23.34
4x100m   Free Relay	New Caledonia   Diane Bui Duyet   Armelle Hidrio   Reine-Victoria Weber   Lara Grangeon	4:01.72   GR	Tahiti   Dorinda Clark   Heretahi Guennegues   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane	4:27.36	none
4x200m   Free Relay	New Caledonia   Diane Bui Duyet   Delphine Bui Duyet   Reine-Victoria Weber   Lara Grangeon	8:51.41   GR	Tahiti   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane   Dorinda Clark   Crystal Laughlin	9:46.75	none
4x100m   Medley Relay	New Caledonia   Reine-Victoria Weber   Adeline Williams   Diane Bui Duyet   Armelle Hidrio	4:23.99   GR	Tahiti   Crystal Laughlin   Heretahi Guennegues   Vera Pambrun   Noelyn Faussane	5:07.20	none
5K Open Water   (time= hr:min:sec)	Lara Grangeon   New Caledonia	1:09:39	Emma Hunter   Samoa	1:15:26	Melissa Carpin   New Caledonia	1:15:37

Participating countries

125 swimmers from 10 countries were entered in the swimming events at the 2007 Games--a record--with Tokelau and the Marshall Islands participating in the SPG Swimming events for the first time.^[2] Countries entered in the swimming competition are:

References

• 2007 South Pacific Games — Swimming website; retrieved 2009-07-06.

Swimming at South Pacific Games (SPG) (prior to 2008), South Pacific Mini Games (MG), and Pacific Games (PG) (from 2008 on) Suva 2003 (SPG) Palau 2005 (MG) Apia 2007 (SPG) Nouméa 2011 (PG)