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2025 Pacific Mini Games
Am Samoa’s Pacific Mini Games team was greeted enthusiastically by their families, friends and supporters, including Congresswoman Amata. The team earned an impressive number of awards, and arrived back to flags, congratulatory signs, and people wearing red, white, and blue in celebration. Read...
Pago Pago, American Samoa — [July 10, 2025] Despite finishing eighth in the overall standings in the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau, with 6 gold, 5 silver, and 4 bronze medals, Team American Samoa returns home triumphant, as it broke it’s own record in terms of medal performances,...
Koror, Palau — American Samoa’s national wrestling team made history at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, earning a remarkable 19 medals — the most ever by a single sport for American Samoa in any Pacific Games. With 6 gold, 7 silver, and 6 bronze medals, the team also recorded the most gold...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tahiti finished at the top of the medal standings as the 2025 Pacific Mini Games wrapped up in Palau on Wednesday.
After nine days of competition, the event concluded with a colorful closing ceremony.
The Pacific Mini Games flag was handed to the Cook Islands, the host...
After a long fundraising battle to get to the 2025 Pacific Mini Games, held in Palau, the Teine Toa Volleyball Team of American Samoa won Gold on Monday, July 7th with a final score of 13- 5, against Guam. Making all the hard work — training & fundraising — worth it!
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa secured their first medal of the games with an impressive 4:01.31 in the 4x 100m Women’s Freestyle Relay, earning them a well deserved bronze. The team consists of debut swimmer Talia Saumamao who, not only was making her first senior international meet, she also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — All baseball competition matches at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau in the last two days have been put on hold because the Nippon Baseball Stadium field has been "washed out".
Baseball competition director Reagan Sidoi told RNZ Pacific that the field cannot be...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tahiti's Teimoana Taputu claimed the first gold medal at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, taking out the V1 500 metres open men's final in va'a (outrigger) racing.
His win also opened the campaign for gold by the French territory, which ended day one with 18 medals...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following determined, last-minute efforts by American Samoa's national women’s softball and volleyball teams to raise the remaining funds for their airfares, a 59-member delegation is set to begin departing tonight to represent the territory at the XII Pacific Mini Games...
Koror, PALAU — Palau is ready to host the 2025 Pacific Mini Games. That's the assurance from Dr Patrick Tellei, chairman of the Games Organizing Committee.
He has promised athletes, officials and fans "an exciting [the] and best game", starting off when the moment they arrive in Koror.
"We are...






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![Medallists in women's 100m butterfly: Paige Schendelaar-Kemp (Samoa), Deotille Videau (Tahiti) and Mia Tracey Anne Laban (Cook Islands). [Photo: Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games/Facebook] WOMEN MEDALISTS](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa-womens-4x-50m-medley-relay.jpg?itok=5p4CTB-7)


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