Results for Sports

The Tonga A team to play against the Junior Japan at the opening of the 2016 World Rugby Pacific Challenge on Tuesday 8 March in Suva, was announced today.

Tonga’s first sports journalists association, the Friendly Islands Sports Journalists Association (FISJA) was officially formed in Nuku’alofa on 2 March.

Tonga A team for the World Rugby Pacific Challenge in Suva, Fiji on March 8-21 was announced today by Tonga Rugby Union.

Tupou College completed its 2016 Inter-House Athletics competition today, 9 February, to find its best athletes to represent the school at the upcoming Inter-College Athletics competition.

Tongan athletes may still compete in the Rio De Janeiro Olympic, even if Tonga is suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Dr Robin Mitchell, President of the Oceania National Olympic Committees said yesterday, 5 February in Nuku’alofa. The Tongan athletes would, however, be parading under the IOC flag and not under the Tongan flag.

Vai Sikahema and Ronnie Stanley received accolades for their talent and skills in American football at the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend held in Oahu, Hawai'i on 29-30 January 2016. Photos by Dan K. Aiono Sataraka.

Within three or four months, the Papua New Guinea government should be able to inform the Tongan government of what it could do to help Tonga with its preparations to host the 2019 Pacific Games, Hon. Justin Tkatchenko, the PNG Minister for National Events, Sports and Tourism said yesterday at the Scenic Hotel, Fua’amotu, after he arrived with a delegation for a four day assessment visit.

Papua New Guinea has offered to help the Tongan government in hosting the 2019 Pacific Games, particularly in management expertise for the sports.

Teufaiva Stadium in Nuku'alofa, currently in a very poor condition, is scheduled for a $24 million pa'anga reconstruction project in preparation for Tonga's hosting of the 2019 Pacific Games.