The first Commonwealth Games was held in 1930.
Australia has won 241 gold medals in Swimming at the Commonwealth Games from 1930 to 2014.
The Commonwealth Games has been held on twenty occasions from Hamilton 1930 to Glasgow 2014.
Scotland won ten medals at the 1930 British Empire Games: 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze.
India has won 438 medals (155 gold, 155 silver and 128 bronze) at the Commonwealth Games from 1930 to 2014.
Women have been allowed to compete at the Commonwealth Games since 1930.At the '30 Games, Women were restricted to Aquatic events (Diving: 3m springboard and 10m platform; Swimming: 100yd freestyle, 400yd freestyle, 100yd backstroke, 200yd backstroke and 4x100yd freestyle relay).
There were 11 countries competing in the first Commonwealth Games in Hamilton, Canada in 1930. There were 59 events, mostly for men only, with women only competing in some swimming and diving events. The top country on the medals table was England with a total of 60 medals (25 gold, 22 silver & 13 bronze)
At the first Commonwealth Games in 1930, New Zealand won nine medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze).
The 1930 Commonwealth Games were called the 1930 British Empire Games.
England have hosted two Commonwealrh Games (London 1934 and Manchesrer 2002) and have topped the medal tally six times: 1930 (69 medals), 1934 (73 medals), 1954 (67 medals), 1958 (80 medals), 1966 (80 medals) & 1986 (144 medals). *As of April 2014
Noel Philip Ryan (Swimming) and Henry Robert "Bobby" Pearce (Rowing) in 1930 commonwealth games
The Commonwealth Games were known as the British Empire Games in 1930.