Micronesian Games Records

Abstract

The Micronesian Games are a quadrennial international multi-sport event within the Micronesian region. The Games were first held in 1969 in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. Participants include four sovereign countries (the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, and Palau), a commonwealth in political union with the United States,the Northern Mariana Islands, an organized unincorporated territory of the United States Guam, and the four constituent States of the Federated States of Micronesia ,Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Yap, which compete separately from one another. These ten countries, States and territories are all located within the Micronesian region of Oceania. Athletes compete in the fields of athletics, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, coconut tree climbing, coconut husking, fast pitch softball, golf, slow pitch softball, spearfishing, swimming, table tennis, triathlon, va'a canoe, volleyball and wrestling, as well as the "micro all around".