Sport in Guam
As a territory of the United States, Guam shares its love of baseball. A distant second is rugby union.
Fiji v Guam basketball at the 2015 Pacific GamesThough Guam is not considered as a world power in any sport, they do have some proud moments like when their national rugby union team demolished the Brunei team with a 74 – 0 victory in June of 2008. Guam also is the birthplace of the Pacific Xtreme Combat, a mixed martial arts organization that has international professional MMA fighters coming from Hawaii, Japan, US mainland, South Korea, Philippines and Northern Mariana Islands. Guam has also hosted the Pacific Games twice (1975 and 1999).
Football is also very popular and is a member of FIFA since 1996. Despite its popularity in the local scene, Guam is considered as one of the bottom teams in FIFA and only registered their first win in 2009 when they went up against Mongolia. So far, Guam only has two athletes that has progressed beyond the first round of competition for the Olympic Games. Ricardo Blas Jr got to the 16th round of the 100+kg Judo competition in the 2012 Summer Games in London while Sean Pangelinan made it all the way to C-1 500m semi-finals for canoeing in the 2008 Beijing Games.
Below are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to Guam. Is there something missing? If you know of something that should be listed here, please let us know.
Popular sports of Guam
- Baseball, Rugby Union, Football (Soccer)
Guam Sporting Success
- The Guan rugby union team demolished the Brunei team with a 74 – 0 victory in June of 2008
Great athletes from Guam
Guam Sports trivia
Guam at major events
Past sporting events hosted in Guam
- 1975 Pacific Games
- 1999 Pacific Games
Upcoming sporting events in Guam
Annual sporting events held in Guam
Sporting Facilities in Guam
Other
- Guam participates in the East Asian Games, Micronesian Games, Pacific Games.
Related Pages
- Countries List
- Micronesian Games — a multisport event for ten participant countries, States and territories located within the Micronesian region of Oceania.
- The Pacific Games — for countries around the South Pacific. It is held every four years and began in 1963.
- World of Sport Home
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