The 9th Micronesian Games were held from July 15 to July 27, 2018, in

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. The venues included the Matson Sports Complex in Abay, and several locations around Colonia.

Participating nations

Ordinarily, there are 10 participants at the games. However,

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was unable to fully compete in this edition due to travel costs. Of the fifty-five that were to be the Nauruan team to the Games, only one Nauruan athlete participated; in the end,

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won a total of 5 medals, 2 of which were gold. As such, the participants at the games were: the four constituent states of the

( Chuuk,

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), three

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countries (

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) and two insular areas of the United States (

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) all located within the

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region.

Sports

Athletes competed in 13 different sports at the games: athletics, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, the "Micronesian all-around", open water swimming, soccer, spearfishing,

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, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling. Previously at the 2014 games 14 sports were contested. However, this edition of the games saw the removal of softball and tennis and the inclusion of beach volleyball.

Medal table

Despite Nauru's withdrawal from the games, individual athlete

was still able to win 5 medals. The final medal table is as follows:

Medalists

Athletics

;Men ;Women

Baseball

Basketball

Beach volleyball

Micronesian all-around

Open water swimming

Soccer

Spearfishing

Table tennis

Va'a

Volleyball

Weightlifting

;Men ;Women

Wrestling

References

{{Micronesian Games Athletics

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