Adelaide to host next Pacific School Games

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Updated: October 13, 2014

ADELAIDE has been chosen to host next year’s Pacific School Games to be held from November 21-29.

The Pacific School Games is an international sporting event for school students aged ten to nineteen years.

It is the flagship event of School Sport Australia, which provides educational opportunities for Australian and international students through the conducting of games in a range of sports.

Held every two years, such countries as Canada, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa and Thailand will be invited to compete in the event.

As well as track and field and swimming, diving, soccer, softball, baseball, touch football, basketball, table tennis and goalball will feature.

In the past, the Pacific School Games have been scheduled every four years. However, this has varied from time to time in order to fit in with special events and celebrations. To facilitate consistent branding and an extended return on investment of partners and sponsors, the Pacific School Games will be held on a biennial basis starting in 2015.

The headline Pacific School Games were held in Brisbane in 1982 as a lead into the Commonwealth Games. Since then the Games have been held in Melbourne in 1984 and 2005, Sydney in 1988 and 2000, Darwin in 1992, Perth in 1996 and Canberra in 2008.

The event has grown from 2187 participants 1982 to the most recent event in Canberra which saw 4888 participants take part. Teams from all states and territories of Australia and as many as thirty visiting nations have participated in the Pacific School Games.

For further information please contact:
pacific.school.games@edumail.vic.gov.au