Draw for Badminton Teams Event announced

The Pacific Games Office is proud to announce the draw and schedule for the seven (7) teams that will be competing for the Mixed Team Badminton event at the Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games. 

The teams have been allocated a seeded position based on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.

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BADMINTON

Seed position

  Country

1

Tahiti

2

New Caledonia

3

Fiji

4

Samoa

5

Tonga

6

Kiribati

7

Northern Marianas

The Mixed Team event will be played in a round robin format.  Each tie includes five (5) matches which includes one of each discipline: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

The schedule for the Badminton Mixed Team event is as follows:

Monday 8 July 2019

9am

Tahiti

   V

Northern Marianas

9am

New Caledonia

   V

Kiribati

9am

Fiji

   V

Tonga

1pm

Samoa

   V

Northern Marianas

1pm

New Caledonia

   V

Tonga

1pm

Tahiti

   V

Kiribati

5pm

Samoa

   V

Kiribati

5pm

Tahiti

   Vs

Tonga

5pm

Fiji

   V

Northern Marianas

Tuesday 9 July 2019

10am

Samoa

   V

Tonga

10am

Tahiti

   V

Fiji

10am

New Caledonia

   V

Northern Marianas

3pm

New Caledonia

   V

Fiji

3pm

Tahiti

   V

Samoa

3pm

Kiribati

   V

Northern Marianas

Wednesday 10 July 2019

10am

New Caledonia

  V

Samoa

10am

Tonga

  V

Northern Marianas

10am

Fiji

  V

Kiribati

3pm

Tahiti

  V

New Caledonia

3pm

Fiji

  V

Samoa

3pm

Tonga

  V

Kiribati


The Mixed Team event will be live streamed on the official website for Samoa 2019 www.samoa2019.ws. 

Badminton is scheduled in the first week of the Games, and will be the first event held in the newly constructed Multi-sport Complex funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China.  

The Pacific Games is a multi-sport event held every four years since 1963, and is contested between the Pacific Island nations associated with the Pacific Games Council.  

The XVI Pacific Games will be held from 7-20 July 2019 in Samoa.  It is set to attract more than 4,000 participants from 24 Pacific Island Countries including New Zealand and Australia.