30 Aug 2007

New Caledonia leads medal table at South Pacific Games

10:21 am on 30 August 2007

New Caledonia has begun today at the top of the South Pacific Games medal table.

Yesterday it won seven gold medals - five of them in the pool - to take its total to 38 medals, twelve of them gold.

In second place is Papua New Guinea with a tally of 21 medals, eleven of them gold.

Fiji are now third with 10 gold and seventeen other medals.

Hosts Samoa had a good day yesterday and are now 5th on the medal table with 16 medals, including 6 gold.