Teams participated in 14 different sports: athletics, boxing, golf, lawn bowls, netball, rugby 7s, rugby league, sailing, squash, table tennis, tennis, touch, triathlon, Va'a (canoeing), and weightlifting.
The host country team featured athletes such as Gordon Heather (pictured right) who is the fastest man in the Cook Islands. He can cover 100 metres in just over 11 seconds, as he proved at the Beijing Olympics. And Sam Pera Jnr (left) is the Islands' leading weightlifter with Olympic and Commonwealth Games experience behind him.