The 2015 Pacific Games (2015 Pasifik Gems), officially the XV Pacific Games and known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the third Pacific Games to be hosted in Port Moresby.
More than 3,700 athletes from the 22 Pacific Games Associations plus first time entrants Australia and New Zealand, took part. With almost 300 sets of medals, the games featured 28 sports, 19 of which were on the 2016 Summer Olympics program. Only men’s football was a straight qualifying event for Rio 2016. These sporting events took place in 14 venues in the host city.
The official mascot, “Tura the Kokomo,” was designed by Taka Seigori, a 13-year-old boy from Tubusereia, a motuan village 30 minutes drive from Port Moresby. Tura depicts a modern, cheeky and funny hornbill, known as a kokomo in Papua New Guinea.
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