2007 Indian Ocean Island Games
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The 2007 Indian Ocean Island Games
Indian Ocean Island Games
The Indian Ocean Island Games is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Indian Ocean islands. The Games was adopted by the International Olympic Committee in 1976 and currently gather the islands of Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte, Réunion and the...

http://www.jioi2007.mg/ commonly known as Les septieme Jeux des iles de L'Ocean Indien in french was the 7th edition of the competition, held in Antananarivo
Antananarivo
Antananarivo , formerly Tananarive , is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known by its French colonial shorthand form Tana....

, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. The last edition was held in 2003 in Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

. The next edition took place in Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

 in 2011
2011 Indian Ocean Island Games
The 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games are the 8th edition of the competition, due to be held in Victoria, Seychelles. The last edition was held in 2007 in Madagascar.The Games' mascot is a Kato Nwar, the national bird of the Seychelles...

. It was the second time Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

 organized these games after the 1990 Indian Ocean Islands Games. The mascot of the games was a ravinala plant (which is a symbol of Madagascar) named Ravi http://www.jioi2007.mg/site_global/mascotte.php

Teams participated

7 islands, all located in the Indian Ocean, participated in the 2007 Indian Ocean Island Games.

Sports

  • Pétanque
    Pétanque
    Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing inside a starting circle with both feet on the ground, to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet or jack. It is also sometimes called a bouchon or le petit...



General Table

http://www.jioi2007.mg/site_global/classement.php
1 align=left |100 79 56 235
2  Réunion Réunion (REU) 74 78 74 226
3 align=left |35 55 83 173
4 align=left |35 27 37 99
5 align=left |1 6 14 21
6  Mayotte Mayotte (MYT) 0 0 4 4
7 align=left |0 0 0 0
Total 245 245 268 758
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