2018 Micronesian Games

IX Micronesian Games

Host city	Yap
Country	Micronesia
Motto	More than Just Games
Nations	9
Events	13 sports
Opening	July 15, 2018 (2018-07-15)
Closing	July 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)

The 9th Micronesian Games were held from July 15 to July 27, 2018, in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.^[1] The venues included the Matson Sports Complex in Abay, and several locations around Colonia.

Participating nations

Ordinarily, there are 10 participants at the games. However, Nauru was unable to fully compete in this edition due to travel costs.^[2] Of the fifty-five that were to be the Nauruan team to the Games, only one Nauruan athlete participated; in the end, Jonah Harris won a total of 5 medals, 2 of which were gold.

As such, the participants at the games were: the four constituent states of the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap), three sovereign countries (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau) and two insular areas of the United States (Northern Mariana Islands, Guam) all located within the Micronesia region.

Sports

Athletes competed in 13 different sports at the games: athletics, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, the "Micronesian all-around", open water swimming, soccer, spearfishing, va'a, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling.^[3]

Previously at the 2014 games 14 sports were contested. However, this edition of the games saw the removal of softball and tennis and the inclusion of beach volleyball.

Medal table

Despite Nauru's withdrawal from the games, individual athlete Jonah Harris was still able to win 5 medals.^[4] The final medal table is as follows:

  *   Host nation ( Yap)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Palau	32	18	20	70
2	Marshall Islands	29	17	6	52
3	Guam	29	12	12	53
4	Pohnpei	18	33	19	70
5	Northern Mariana Islands	9	18	9	36
6	Yap*	5	12	14	31
7	Chuuk	5	1	3	9
8	Kiribati	2	2	2	6
9	Nauru	2	2	1	5
10	Kosrae	0	4	10	14
Totals (10 entries)		131	119	96	346

Medalists

Athletics

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Jonah Harris  Nauru	Rodman Teltull  Palau	Scott Fiti  Chuuk
200 m	Rodman Teltull  Palau	Jonah Harris  Nauru	Scott Fiti  Chuuk
400 m	Kiudone David  Chuuk	Douglas Schmidt  Northern Mariana Islands	Joseph Aguon  Guam
800 m	Joshua Ilustre  Guam	Darin Pascua  Guam	IS Arongaw  Chuuk
1500 m	Joshua Ilustre  Guam	Cristian Etpison Nicolescu  Palau	Tyler Santos  Northern Mariana Islands
5000 m	Ryan Matienzo  Guam	Benjamin Middlebrooke  Guam	Cristian Etpison Nicolescu  Palau
10000 m	Ryan Matienzo  Guam	Benjamin Middlebrooke  Guam	Casey Henry  Pohnpei
15000 m	Benjamin Middlebrooke  Guam	MJ Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded
110 m hurdles	Elias Ryan  Pohnpei	Mighty-Jay Bernardo  Pohnpei	Skyler Mason  Pohnpei
400 m hurdles	Jeofry Limtiaco  Guam	Elias Ryan  Pohnpei	Casey Henry  Pohnpei
4 × 100 m relay	Palau Adrian Ililau Gwynn Uehara Rodman Teltull Ian Koshiba	Chuuk Oneison McMahon Benoni Kin Nomar Jimenez Scott Fiti	Kiribati Kimwaua Makin Tirioro Willie Mobera Tonana Biira Burennaira
4 × 400 m relay	Chuuk Kuidone David Scott Fiti Francis Rikat Benoni Kin	Palau Rodman Teltull Gwynn Uehara Joab Kanai Dusty Etpison	Guam Darin Pascua Paul John Dimalanta Joseph Aguon Jeofry Limtiaco
High jump	Lataisi Mwea  Kiribati	Jonah Harris  Nauru	Kius Pius You  Yap
Long jump	Jonah Harris  Nauru	Buraieta Yeeting  Kiribati	Devon Aquinas  Pohnpei
Triple jump	Biira Burennaira  Kiribati	Douglas Schmidt  Northern Mariana Islands	Jonah Harris  Nauru
Shot put	Florian Skilang Temengil  Palau	Sione Aho  Marshall Islands	Javez Mooteb  Yap
Discus throw	Florian Skilang Temengil  Palau	Sione Aho  Marshall Islands	Javez Mooteb  Yap
Javelin throw	Dougwin Franz  Palau	Iverson August  Palau	Nicholas Gross  Northern Mariana Islands
Octathlon	Mighty-Jay Bernardo  Pohnpei	Joab Kanai  Palau	Bradley Ponens  Pohnpei

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Regine Tugade  Guam	Zarinae Sapong  Northern Mariana Islands	Shania Bulala  Guam
200 m	Zarinae Sapong  Northern Mariana Islands	Shania Bulala  Guam	Celine Amparo  Guam
400 m	Regine Tugade  Guam	Madison Packbier  Guam	Emiko Leit  Pohnpei
800 m	Genina Criss  Guam	Madison Packbier  Guam	Elenna Santos  Northern Mariana Islands
1500 m	Genina Criss  Guam	Elenna Santos  Northern Mariana Islands	Madison Packbier  Guam
5000 m	Genina Criss  Guam	Reloliza Saimon  Pohnpei	not awarded
10000 m	Genina Criss  Guam	Reloliza Saimon  Pohnpei	Anaya Masang  Palau
15000 m	Reloliza Saimon  Pohnpei	not awarded	not awarded
100 m hurdles	Richelle Tugade  Guam	Rachel Abrams  Northern Mariana Islands	Aubry Ngirangesill  Palau
400 m hurdles	Richelle Tugade  Guam	Sydney Francisco  Palau	not awarded
4 × 100 m relay	Guam Madison Packbier Richelle Tugade Celine Amparo Shania Bulala	Pohnpei Saya Shigeta Emiko Leit Meliza Bartolome Darla Jonah	Northern Mariana Islands Jamie Pangelinan Zarinae Sapong Elenna Santos Rachel Abrams
4 × 400 m relay	Guam Shania Bulala Madison Packbier Richelle Tugade Celine Amparo	Pohnpei Meliza Bartolome Diana Shigeta Darla Jonah Emiko Leit	Northern Mariana Islands Therize Millare Jerlyn Castillo Zarinae Sapong Elenna Santos
High jump	Rachel Abrams  Northern Mariana Islands	Rosemaline Watley  Marshall Islands	Amaya Ngirkelau  Palau
Long jump	Regine Tugade  Guam	Shania Bulala  Guam	Richelle Tugade  Guam
Triple jump	Richelle Tugade  Guam	Rosemaline Watley  Marshall Islands	Jerlyn Castillo  Northern Mariana Islands
Shot put	Genie Gerardo  Guam	Sidra Triplett  Marshall Islands	Amanda Cruz  Guam
Discus throw	Sidra Triplett  Marshall Islands	Genie Gerardo  Guam	Amanda Cruz  Guam
Javelin throw	Genie Gerardo  Guam	Sandonia Likor  Pohnpei	Amaya Ngirkelau  Palau

Baseball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Pohnpei	Northern Mariana Islands	Kosrae

Basketball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Guam	Marshall Islands	Pohnpei
Women	Guam	Marshall Islands	Palau

Beach volleyball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Palau Sakiusa Naivana Texxon Taro	Kiribati Talaika Manuera Uerei Touati	Guam Ryan Eugenio Shitaro Okada
Women	Palau Holly Yamada Hila Asanuma	Marshall Islands Aliyah Brown Sidra Triplett	Marshall Islands Rutha Pedro Darcyann Muller

Micronesian all-around

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Jasper Ponapart  Pohnpei	Joseph Roman  Palau	Talley Hairens  Pohnpei
Women	Roiolynn Jim  Pohnpei	Serleen Agrippa  Pohnpei	Julita Blibei  Palau

Open water swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 2.5 km	Kento Akimaru  Northern Mariana Islands	Noel Keane  Palau	Jericho Maido  Palau
Men's 5 km	Noel Keane  Palau	Kento Akimaru  Northern Mariana Islands	Jericho Maido  Palau
Women's 2.5 km	Osisang Chilton  Palau	Sophia Klair Gauran  Northern Mariana Islands	Kestra Aileen Nihleng  Pohnpei
Women's 5 km	Osisang Chilton  Palau	Sophia Klair Gauran  Northern Mariana Islands	Roylin Akiwo  Palau
Mixed 5 km relay	Palau Noel Keane Osisang Chilton Roylin Akiwo Jericho Maido	Northern Mariana Islands Kento Akimaru Sophia Klair Gauran Keanna Villagomez Jinnosuke Suzuki	not awarded

Soccer

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Pohnpei	Yap	Palau

Spearfishing

See also: Spearfishing at the Micronesian Games

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual[5]	Michael Genereux  Guam	Luis Ongalibang  Palau	Taylor Paul  Pohnpei
Team[5]	Guam Michael Genereux Ray Flores Mike Cassidy	Pohnpei Taylor Paul Benco Adolf MacGrady Barnabas	Yap Anthony Yanrin Phillip Yangmal Sylvester Yanruw

Table tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Ramon Gulla  Palau	Samuel Saunders  Palau	Nena George  Palau
			John Thomsin  Pohnpei
Women's singles	Jeremai Watanabe  Palau	Portiana Franz  Palau	Aberlynn Ngiruos  Palau
			Meilin Chin  Palau
Men's doubles	Palau Ramon Gulla Samuel Saunders	Palau Nena George Shawnessy Soalablai	Marshall Islands Kabuati Bob Ricky Bokadrik
			Pohnpei Antonio Tom John Thomsin
Women's doubles	Palau Jeremai Watanabe Jada Osiik	Palau Aberlynn Ngiruos Meilin Chin	Yap Viviana Bamtin Mandiala Gamagag
			Marshall Islands Kitlan Paguiligan Annalyn Laikidrik
Mixed doubles	Palau Ramon Gulla Jeremai Watanabe	Marshall Islands Ricky Bokadrik Annalyn Laikidrik	Palau D'jud Tamtreng Aberlynn Ngiruos
			Palau Nena George Portiana Franz
Men's team	Palau Ramon Gulla Shawnessy Soalablai Samuel Saunders Nena George D'jud Tamtreng	Pohnpei Leonard James John Thomsin Jeronimo Thomsin Antonio Tom	Marshall Islands Kabuati Bob Ricky Bokadrik Keno Kuma
Women's team	Palau Jeremai Watanabe Portiana Franz Aberlynn Ngiruos Meilin Chin Jada Osiik	Yap Viviana Bamtin Marie E. Dabugfel Mandiala Gamagag	not awarded

Va'a

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 m	Yap Travis Bermino Joseph Bradman Bruce Chester Patwin Ervin Mino Jarguin	Guam Shane Palomo Kyle Palomo Eric Reyes Jesse Cabrera Johnny Palomo Ian Iriarte	Palau Bill Tony Majesty Sayad Joseph Carlos Jayvits Kiep Randy Miran Jimmy Jonas Denjo Pedro Cobi Jones Tino Faatuuala Jeric Borja
Men's 1500 m	Yap Travis Bermino Joseph Bradman Bruce Chester Patwin Ervin Mino Jarguin	Palau Bill Tony Majesty Sayad Joseph Carlos Jayvits Kiep Randy Miran Jimmy Jonas Denjo Pedro Cobi Jones Tino Faatuuala Jeric Borja	Guam Shane Palomo Kyle Palomo Eric Reyes Jesse Cabrera Johnny Palomo Ian Iriarte
Men's 15 miles	Yap Bernard Bruce Joseph Patwin Ervin Chester	Northern Mariana Islands Josh Anlyucis Jose Quian Bobby Cruz Maurice Itibus Jack Kadimel Diglo Mawhide	Pohnpei Talley Hairens Marston Ardos Iakop Hairens Mike Hairens Dexy Hairens Henry Ardos
Women's 500 m	Palau Mariah Okada Elilai Sugiyama Samantha Rechelluu Nikla Reddin Ochebir Ngiraingas Pkngey Ofobed Elsei Tellei Miel Sequeira-Holm Hatayan Cooper Nikki Vehara	Kosrae Kenye Noda Ann-Marie Killin Sweetyona Tulensru Suzie Benjamin Evelyn Alik Lorie Ann Alik Regina Killin Lolynn Tilfas	Guam Bel Gutierrez Del Duenas Jennifer Horeg Misako Sablan Taria Manglona Chrissy Palomo
Women's 1500 m	Palau Mariah Okada Elilai Sugiyama Samantha Rechelluu Nikla Reddin Ochebir Ngiraingas Pkngey Ofobed Elsei Tellei Miel Sequeira-Holm Hatayan Cooper Nikki Vehara	Guam Bel Gutierrez Del Duenas Jennifer Horeg Misako Sablan Taria Manglona Chrissy Palomo	Northern Mariana Islands Arielle Buyum Lorenza Aldan Mayiah Duenas Maria Ornes Lei (Elizabeth) Tenorio Krista Falig Victoria Camama Shelli Neal
Women's 10 miles	Palau Mariah Okada Elilai Sugiyama Nikla Reddin Ochebir Ngiraingas Pkngey Ofobed Elsei Tellei Miel Sequeira-Holm Hatayan Cooper	Pohnpei Angie Penikinus Emerika Loyola Ariel Yamaguchi Renselina Akwinas Sielinda Henrick Yakida Tudela	Guam Tavia Manglona Jennifer Horeg Maribeth Bonavente Misako Sablan Chrissy Palomo Michele Salas

Volleyball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Chuuk	Palau	Kiribati
Women	Guam	Marshall Islands	Palau

Weightlifting

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg snatch	Mike Riklon  Marshall Islands	Alselm Sumor  Palau	not awarded
56 kg clean & jerk	Mike Riklon  Marshall Islands	Alselm Sumor  Palau	not awarded
56 kg total	Mike Riklon  Marshall Islands	Alselm Sumor  Palau	not awarded
62 kg snatch	Gibbs Jack  Pohnpei	Joshua Ralpho  Marshall Islands	not awarded
62 kg clean & jerk	Joshua Ralpho  Marshall Islands	Gibbs Jack  Pohnpei	not awarded
62 kg total	Joshua Ralpho  Marshall Islands	Gibbs Jack  Pohnpei	not awarded
69 kg snatch	Patterson River  Marshall Islands	Joymar Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded
69 kg clean & jerk	Patterson River  Marshall Islands	Joymar Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded
69 kg total	Patterson River  Marshall Islands	Joymar Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded
77 kg snatch	Loir Tamare  Marshall Islands	Marly Jack  Pohnpei	Brandon Jesse  Kosrae
77 kg clean & jerk	Loir Tamare  Marshall Islands	Marly Jack  Pohnpei	Brandon Jesse  Kosrae
77 kg total	Loir Tamare  Marshall Islands	Marly Jack  Pohnpei	Brandon Jesse  Kosrae
85 kg snatch	Kabuati Sailas Bob  Marshall Islands	Adran Dolon  Pohnpei	Joseph Tudela  Northern Mariana Islands
85 kg clean & jerk	Kabuati Sailas Bob  Marshall Islands	Joseph Tudela  Northern Mariana Islands	Adran Dolon  Pohnpei
85 kg total	Kabuati Sailas Bob  Marshall Islands	Joseph Tudela  Northern Mariana Islands	Adran Dolon  Pohnpei
94 kg snatch	Sione Haho  Marshall Islands	Dorian Peter  Pohnpei	Rodrico Ada  Northern Mariana Islands
94 kg clean & jerk	Sione Haho  Marshall Islands	Rodrico Ada  Northern Mariana Islands	not awarded
94 kg total	Sione Haho  Marshall Islands	Rodrico Ada  Northern Mariana Islands	not awarded
105 kg snatch	Angel San Nicholas  Northern Mariana Islands	Alvin Reuuemau  Yap	not awarded
105 kg clean & jerk	Angel San Nicholas  Northern Mariana Islands	Alvin Reuuemau  Yap	not awarded
105 kg total	Angel San Nicholas  Northern Mariana Islands	Alvin Reuuemau  Yap	not awarded
+105 kg snatch	Burdon Charley  Pohnpei	Abraham Jinuna  Marshall Islands	not awarded
+105 kg clean & jerk	Burdon Charley  Pohnpei	Abraham Jinuna  Marshall Islands	not awarded
+105 kg total	Burdon Charley  Pohnpei	Abraham Jinuna  Marshall Islands	not awarded

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg snatch	Martha Hanerc  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
48 kg clean & jerk	Martha Hanerc  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
48 kg total	Martha Hanerc  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
58 kg snatch	Marine Violet Burns  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
58 kg clean & jerk	Marine Violet Burns  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
58 kg total	Marine Violet Burns  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
69 kg snatch	Daisy Latdrik  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
69 kg clean & jerk	Daisy Latdrik  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
69 kg total	Daisy Latdrik  Marshall Islands	not awarded	not awarded
90 kg snatch	Antoinette Labausa  Northern Mariana Islands	Bonnie Cruz  Northern Mariana Islands	not awarded
90 kg clean & jerk	Antoinette Labausa  Northern Mariana Islands	Bonnie Cruz  Northern Mariana Islands	not awarded
90 kg total	Antoinette Labausa  Northern Mariana Islands	Bonnie Cruz  Northern Mariana Islands	not awarded

Wrestling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg	Joklur Bollong  Marshall Islands	Risky Pretrick  Pohnpei	Frank Sierah  Kosrae
Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	Jaylen Racheimal  Yap	Mayson Ioannis  Pohnpei	Kaiser Muller  Marshall Islands
Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg	Junjun Asebias  Chuuk	Bercil Timothy  Kosrae	Kaylord Raechemai  Yap
Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg	Cristian Nicolescu  Palau	Mike Kenfield  Kosrae	Nicholas Hashigeitiw  Yap
Men's Greco-Roman 72 kg	Jarvis Tarkong  Palau	Richard Nakasone  Pohnpei	Jefner James  Kosrae
Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg	Guy Delamau  Palau	Thomas Wichilbuch  Yap	John Tulensru  Kosrae
Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg	Damian Myros  Pohnpei	Michael Shinohara  Guam	Mike Kenneth  Kosrae
Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg	Ryan Ifamilik  Pohnpei	Patrick Mike  Kosrae	Isaiah Kramer  Marshall Islands
Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg	Alex Dolon  Pohnpei	Rich Adiniwin  Marshall Islands	not awarded
Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg	Florian Skilang Temengil  Palau	Dukay Tairuwpiy  Yap	not awarded
Men's freestyle 57 kg	Risky Pretrick  Pohnpei	Joklur Bollong  Marshall Islands	Charwin Tawerilmul  Yap
Men's freestyle 61 kg	Junjun Asebias  Chuuk	Mayson Ioannis  Pohnpei	Jaylen Racheimal  Yap
Men's freestyle 65 kg	Cristian Nicolescu  Palau	RD Damian  Pohnpei	Kaylord Raechemai  Yap
Men's freestyle 70 kg	Jarvis Tarkong  Palau	Richard Nakasone  Pohnpei	Nicholas Hashigeitiw  Yap
Men's freestyle 74 kg	Guy Delamau  Palau	Paul Aguon  Guam	Jim McCain  Pohnpei
Men's freestyle 79 kg	John Rojas  Guam	Thomas Wichilbuch  Yap	Skarlee Renguul  Palau
Men's freestyle 86 kg	Michael Shinohara  Guam	Ryan Ifamilik  Pohnpei	Marcel Yatilman  Yap
Men's freestyle 92 kg	Waylon Muller  Marshall Islands	Baker Hairens  Pohnpei	Kenneth Mike  Kosrae
Men's freestyle 97 kg	Alex Dolon  Pohnpei	Rich Adiniwin  Marshall Islands	not awarded
Men's freestyle 125 kg	Florian Skilang Temengil  Palau	Dukay Tairuwpiy  Yap	not awarded
Women's freestyle 57 kg	Rckaela Aquino  Guam	Mayoleen Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded
Women's freestyle 59 kg	Mia-Lahnee Aquino  Guam	not awarded	not awarded
Women's freestyle 76 kg	Delvina Kerson  Pohnpei	Louisa Wagthuth  Yap	not awarded
Men's beach wrestling 65 kg	Cristian Nicolescu  Palau	Charwin Tawerilmul  Yap	Mayson Ioannis  Pohnpei
			Kaylord Raechemai  Yap
Men's beach wrestling 80 kg	Guy Delamau  Palau	Thomas Wichilbuch  Yap	Jarvis Tarkong  Palau
			Orlando Barnabas  Pohnpei
Men's beach wrestling +80 kg	Florian Skilang Temengil  Palau	Alex Dolan  Pohnpei	Kenneth Mike  Kosrae
			Dukay Tairuwpiy  Yap
Women's beach wrestling 60 kg	Mayoleen Ioanis  Pohnpei	not awarded	not awarded
Women's beach wrestling +60 kg	Louisa Wagthuth  Yap	Delvina Kerson  Pohnpei	not awarded

References

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4. Weiss, Matt (July 23, 2018). "Nauru quits Games, but athlete arrives and wins". The Guam Daily Post. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
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