Sports

Schedule by Games  Competition Schedule   Competition Venues   Overall Medal List  News
Dates 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

History of Commonwealth Games

Common Wealth Games (CWG) is a world class sporting event between the Commonwealth nations conducted every four years. The game started in the year 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with 11 countries and 400 athletes, participating in 6 sports and 59 events. It was through the pioneering efforts of Bobby Robinson, a major influence within athletics in Canada at the time, that the event came into existence. Now the games are organised and controlled by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

Originally known as the British Empire Games (from1930-1950), then British Empire and Commonwealth Games (from 1954-1966), British Commonwealth Games (from 1970-1974) and finally Common Wealth Games (from 1978),  the game has seen many changes over the years since its inception. 

Formerly holding only single competition sports, team events were introduced in the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. Events for athletes with a disability were included in the CWG from 2002 Games in Manchester. Commonwealth Youth Games, open to athletes 18 years of age and under was introduced in the year 2000 as a separate event, with the inaugural games in Edinburgh. Since then, Youth Games has grown in stature and has been conducted at regular intervals.

The story of the Games evolved yet again on the 9th November 2007 when Glasgow (Scotland) was awarded the right to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The following is a list of the venues, year and the number of participating Countries in the Commonwealth Games ever since its inception in 1930.

 
S. No Venue Year No of Countries
1 Hamilton, Canada 1930 11
2 London, United Kingdom 1934 16
3 Sydney, Australia 1938 15
  World War II 1942  
  World War II 1946  
4 Auckland, New Zealand 1950 12
5 Vancouver, Canada 1954 24
6 Cardiff, United Kingdom 1958 35
7 Perth, Australia 1962 35
8 Jamaica, West Indies 1966 34
9 Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1970 42
10 Christchurch, New Zealand 1974 38
11 Edmonton, Canada 1978 48
12 Brisbane, Australia 1982 47
13 Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1986 26
14 Auckland, New Zealand 1990 55
15 Victoria, Canada 1994 64
16 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998 70
17 Manchchester, United Kingdom 2002 72
18 Melbourne, Australia 2006 71
19 New Delhi, India 2010