South Pacific Athletics Championships

South Pacific Athletics Championships
Statusdefunct
GenreAthletics championship
Inaugurated1976 (1976)
Most recent1984
AreaSouth Pacific Ocean islands

The South Pacific Athletics Championships were an international athletics competition between island nations of the South Pacific Ocean. The championships was contested on three occasions: it was first held in 1976, had its second edition in 1978, then its final edition in 1984. Ten nations won medals at the competition during its lifetime.[1] The competition emerged as a single-sport championship following in the footsteps of the region's multi-sport event established in 1963: the South Pacific Games.[2] The athletics competition declined with the emergence of the South Pacific Mini Games in 1981, which was a smaller-scale event with athletics as its core sport.[3]

  1. ^ South Pacific Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  2. ^ South Pacific Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  3. ^ South Pacific Mini Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-09.