The 7th Pan Pacific Masters Games will be held 6-14 November, 2010 on the Gold Coast. An anticipated 10,000 participants from all over the world will compete in the multi-sport event, which has stamped itself on the calendar at the beginning of November every two years. sportstar.com will be there to cover it so watch for our reports from next week.

Good sport at any age. In 2010, 34 sports will be on the program with team sports including softball, touch football, soccer, basketball and baseball to individual sports ranging from swimming, athletics, tennis and archery. No qualifying standards or times are required to enter. The only criteria is that participants meet the minimum age requirement for their respective sport, which for the majority is 30 years of age. Participants compete in their age group ensuring that the sport is played fairly, competitively and in tremendous spirit.

Play it, Live it, Love it! That’s the slogan of the Games and it captures perfectly its competitive, participatory and social environment. The Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre will be the official Games Village. It will feature live nightly entertainment, a sports expo, fully catered hospitality and a venue for the Games sportspeople to socialise, meet up and enjoy the camaraderie the event is renowned for.

HISTORY. The first World Masters Games was in 1985 in Canada; it attracted 8,305 competitors from 61 countries. With the rise in popularity of Masters sport, national events began to surface in Australia and New Zealand. The first Australian Masters Games was held in Tasmania in 1987, followed by the New Zealand Masters Games in Wanganui in 1989. Brisbane hosted the 1994 World Masters Games, which attracted 24,000 competitors from 71 countries. Following the success of the Worlds in Brisbane, the inaugural Queensland Masters Games were held in 1995 in Townsville, before moving to the Gold Coast the following year. These Games evolved into the Asia Pacific Masters Games and then Pan Pacific Masters Games from 2002, with increased interest from Asia, Japan, America, Oceania and New Zealand. The Pan Pacific Masters Games continue to be held biennially in early November. In the previous games in 2008, there were nearly 10,000 participants from 16 countries and every Australian State and Territory.

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