Commonwealth Games

The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.

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In 1954 the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, as they were called then, were held in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, not in the United Kingdom.

India competed but did not win any medals.

Weightlifting was introduced as a Commonwealth Games sport in 1950.

Members Nations of the Commonwealth

Antigua and Barbuda

Jamaica

St Vincent and the Grenadines

Australia

Kenya

Samoa

The Bahamas

Kiribati Seychelles

Bangladesh

Lesotho

Sierra Leone

Barbados

Malawi

Singapore

Belize

Malaysia

Solomon Islands

Botswana

Maldives

South Africa

Brunei Darussalam

Malta

Sri Lanka

Cameroon

Mauritius

Swaziland

Canada

Mozambique

Tonga

Cyprus

Namibia

Trinidad and Tobago

Dominica

Nauru

Tuvalu

Fiji

New Zealand

Uganda

Gambia

Nigeria

United Kingdom

Ghana

Pakistan

United Republic of Tanzania

Grenada

Papua New Guinea

Vanuatu

Guyana

St Kitts and Nevis

Zambia

India

St Lucia

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The British Commonwealth is an obsolete name for what is now called the Commonwealth of Nations. It is an association of some 54 independent, sovereign nations, most (but not all) of whom were once part of the British Empire

The 2010 Commonwealth Games is the 19th edition of Commonwealth Games.

The two main competitors for hosting Commonwealth Games were India and Canada. India shifted the balance in its favour in the second round of voting with a promise that it would provide US$ 100,000 to each participating country, along with air tickets, boarding, lodging and transport. Also, the success of the 2003 Afro-Asian games, held in Hyderabad, supported India's bit to host the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

1. All competitors in the Commonwealth Youth Games will be a minimum of 14 and maximum of 18 in the year of competition (i.e, their 18th birthday is during the calendar year in which the Games is held) and a maximum number of 1000 competitors are invited to participate from every Commonwealth Games Association.

They have an official collaboration in the Commonwealth of Nations. This is an organization established by the United Kingdom to keep its influence in its colonies after World War II. The British Empire knew it would decline after this devastating war, but to keep its power and influence in its present empire, they created this organization in which all its colonies as the time were invited to join (Mozambique and Rwanda are members as well, although never were a part of the British Empire). All countries in the Commonwealth acknowledge the monarch of the UK as their head of state, which would currently by Queen Elizabeth II.

The countries that have hosted the Commonwealth Games are Canada (1930, 1954, 1978 and 1994), England (1934 and 2002), Australia (1938, 1962,1982, 2006 and 2018) ,New Zealand (1950,1974 and 1990), Wales (1958), Jamaica (1966), Scotland (1970, 1986 and 2014), Malaysia (1998), India (2010) and South Africa (2022)

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The Commonwealth Games did not take place in 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War.

There are 2 years between each commonwealth games.

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The first British Empire Games held in New Zealand were held in 1950 in Auckland.

The Commonwealth games in Delhi go for 12 days, 3rd of October to the 14th of October

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