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The Papua New Guinea national basketball team is the team that represents Papua New Guinea in international basketball and is a member of FIBA Oceania. It is administered by the Basketball Federation of Papua New Guinea. [2] The team is yet to qualify for the Olympic Games, FIBA World Cup, FIBA Asia Cup, and Commonwealth Games.
Papua New Guinea entered two athletes to compete at the games. Gibson Mara qualified for Paris 2024, following the triumph of winning the final match in his weight class; meanwhile Kevin Kassman fail to win the final match in his weight class, but later on confirmed that he will compete for Paris 2024, after New Zealand taekwondo fail to meet the requirements for NOC nomination.
Papua New Guinea first participated at the Olympic Games in 1976, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when the nation participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. The nation has never won a medal and has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games. [1]
Athletics Papua New Guinea announced a team of 35 athletes in track and field on 11 September 2023. [4] [5] The PNG team will feature three defending champions from Apia 2019, namely long-distance runner Simbai Kaspar (men's 3000 m steeplechase), long jumper Rellie Kaputin, and javelin thrower Sharon Toako.
The 15th Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. [1] It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby.
This was the nation's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) sent a team of eight athletes, six men and two women, to compete in six sports at the Games, matching the nation's roster size with London 2012. [2]
The Americans have won 17 of the 21 Olympic gold medals in 5x5 basketball since the event made its debut at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a medal sport. Team USA has won gold in the past five ...
Basketball is a popular sport in Papua New Guinea, especially among the youth. Many of the country's top professional players play in Australia. Papua New Guinea hosted the inaugural 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup, where both the men's and the women's national teams won the titles. [12]