Spearfishing at the Micronesian Games

[5] The 2006 Micronesian Games hosted in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, became the first to use modern spearfishing equipment after the owner of a diving shop on the island acquired the right to distribute modern spearguns and long swimfins from a Cressi-Sub company in 2005.

[6] Sasamoto also won a gold medal in the individual event that year and would later set up the Marianas Apnea Spearfishing Club, along with Morito Asai and others.

[6] The club conducted a trial competition to select the Northern Mariana Islands' spearfishers for the 2010 Micronesian Games but the defending champions failed to make the podium in both events.

[7][8] At the 2014 Micronesian Games in Pohnpei, Palauan Clint Madracheluib won gold in the individual event with his teammate Moy Shmull losing second place to Guamanian Ray Flores as one of the fish that he caught was mutilated by a shark.

[11][2] Guamanian Michael Genereux also won his second consecutive individual spearfishing gold medal.