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Almost a thousand athletes from Oceania are in Tokyo for the XXXII Olympiad.
A total of 798 athletes from 17 Oceania Continent countries are participating at the TOKYO 2020 Olympic Games opening in a few hours.
One hundred athletes are from 15 Pacific island countries. The balance includes 487 from Australia (AUS) and 211 from New Zealand (NZL).
The Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) has released the consolidated Oceania athletes’ list from Pacific island countries participating at the Games. The list can be found here.
Following the team sizes of Australia and New Zealand, coming in third is Fiji with a team of 40 athletes. This includes the country’s Women’s and Men’s national sevens rugby teams - a total of 34 players - 19 women and 15 men. The Fiji Men’s Sevens Rugby team are defending the Olympic gold medal position it won at sevens rugby’s inaugural inclusion at the Rio 2016 Games.
The Pacific islands national teams include the following athlete numbers: American Samoa (ASA) 6; Cook Islands (COK) 6; Fiji (FIJ) 40; Guam (GUM) 5; Kiribati (KIR) 3; Marshall Islands (MHL) 2, Nauru (NRU) 2; Palau (PLW) 3; Papua New Guinea (PNG) 8; Samoa (SAM) 8; Solomon Islands (SOL) 3; Tonga (TGA) 6; Tuvalu (TUV) 2; and Vanuatu (VAN) 3.
Team Australia comprises 262 female athletes and 225 male athletes competing in 33 sports. 307 are debutants and a record 16 First Nations athletes competing in 11 sports.
The New Zealand Team of 211 athletes consists of 101 female athletes and 110 male athletes. 118 are debutants. 33 are of Maori descent.
Dame Valerie Adams is making history with her fifth appearance at the Summer Olympics, equalling the record of legendary windsurfer Barbara Kendall.
Kendall was the inaugural Chair of the ONOC Athletes’ Commission and helped the Pacific island NOCs establish the NOC level Athletes’ Commissions across the islands.
The TOKYO 2020 Games open tonight in a reformatted, more solemn ceremony without the signature crowd that makes every Olympics and runs until 8 August.
The ceremony takes into account the current COVID-19 pandemic and the heavy losses it has dealt many countries and communities. The Games are celebrated as a bearing of hope to the world in a time of global crisis through the lives and performances of athletes over the next two weeks.
More than 11,000 athletes from across the world are congregating in Tokyo to underscore the importance of excellence, friendship and respect in a moment when humanity needs it.
For further information:
On the ONOC coverage of the Games
On TOKYO 2020 Olympic Games
On the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC)
On the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC)
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About ONOC
Established in 1981, the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) is one of five Continental Associations. It looks after the interests of 17 member nations in the Oceania Region, including Australia and New Zealand as well as seven associate members.
ONOC has an office in Guam where Secretary General Mr. Ricardo Blas is based and the Secretariat in Suva, Fiji, where the Office of the President Dr Robin Mitchell is located.
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For more information, please contact;
Sitiveni Tawakevou
Chief Communications Officer (Acting)
sitiveni@oceanianoc.org
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