Tuvalu at the Pacific Games

A combined Gilbert and Ellice Islands team participated at the 1963,[1] 1966,[2] and 1971 South Pacific Games.[3] An athlete from Tuvalu (then Ellice Islands), namely Nelu Arenga, is at least documented for 1971.[3][4]

Athletes from Tuvalu attended the 2003 South Pacific Games for the first time.[5]

Logona Esau was the first athlete from Tuvalu to win a medal at an international competition, when he took bronze at the 2005 South Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau.[6]

Tuvalu competed at the 2007 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa. Tuvalu was ranked 18th equal at the Games, with 2 medals (0 gold - 1 silver - 1 bronze).

Tuvalu competed at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia. Tuvalu was ranked 17th at the Games, with 3 medals (0 gold - 2 silver - 1 bronze).

At the 2013 Pacific Mini Games in Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna, Tuau Lapua Lapua won Tuvalu's first ever gold medal in an international competition in the weightlifting 62 kilogram male snatch. (He also won bronze in the clean and jerk, and obtained the silver medal overall for the combined event.)[7][8]

Tuvalu competed at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Nakibae Kitisane was the Chef de Mission.[9] Tuvalu was ranked 19th at the Games, with 4 medals (1 gold - 0 silver - 3 bronze). Telupe Iosefa received the first ever gold medal won by Tuvalu at the Pacific Games in the powerlifting 120 kg male division.[10][11][12]

Tuvalu competed at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa. Tuvalu was ranked 20th at the Games, with 3 medals (1 gold - 1 silver - 1 bronze).

• Logona Esau in Weightlifting at the 2007 Pacific Games: 69 kg Clean & Jerk.[13][14]
• Iliala Fakatokaga in Boxing at the 2007 Pacific Games: Heavy-weight 91 kg division.[15]
• Tuau Lapua Lapua in Weightlifting at the 2011 Pacific Games: 62 kg Clean & Jerk, 62 kg Snatch, 62 kg Total.[7]
• Telupe Iosefa in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games: 120 kg Male division.[16]
• Asenate Manoa in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games: 72 kg Female division.[17]
• Teofoga Edueni Sonya Dabwido in Powerlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games: 84 kg Female division.[18]
• Harry Dave Eti Esela in Boxing at the 2015 Pacific Games: Heavy-weight 82–91 kg division.[19]
• Ioane Hawaii in Table tennis at the 2019 Pacific Games: Men's Seated Singles event.[20][21]
• Telupe Iosefa in Powerlifting at the 2019 Pacific Games: 120 kg male division.[22]
• Fiu Tui in Boxing at the 2019 Pacific Games: Men's Middle Weight 75 kg division.[23]

Tuvalu have appeared in the finals of the football competition at the Pacific Games on four occasions in 1979, 2003, 2007 and 2011. The football team did not participated in the 2015 Pacific Games.

Record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1963 to 1975	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1979	Quarter-finals	8th	5	2	0	3	16	43
1983 to 1999	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Round 1	8th	4	1	0	3	3	11
2007	Round 1	9th	4	0	1	3	2	22
2011	Round 1	7th	5	1	1	3	7	20
2015	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Round 1	-	5	0	1	4	2	42
Total	5/16		23	4	3	16	30	128

Pacific Games matches (By team)
Total : 4 Wins – 3 Ties – 16 Losses – 23 games played
Against	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total		Against	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total
Tahiti	0	1	2	3		Vanuatu	0	0	2	2
Tonga	1	0	0	1		Solomon Islands	0	0	3	3
New Caledonia	0	0	4	4		Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
Kiribati	2	0	0	2		American Samoa	1	1	0	2
Fiji	0	0	3	3		Guam	0	1	1	2