1978 Commonwealth Games
3-12 August, Edmonton, Canada
The XI Games was the first to bear the current
day name of the Commonwealth Games. Whilst Edmonton
had won the right to host the Games with an
audacious vision presented six years earlier
to the Commonwealth Games Federlation General
Assembly, the organizers had to walk a careful
tightrope in the immediate run up to the Edmonton
Games to ensure that there was no repeat of
the African nations boycott of the 1976 Montreal
Olympics caused by a New Zealand rugby tour
of South Africa.
Forty-six countries sent a total of 1,405 athletes
and 504 officials to the Edmonton Games. As
host nation, Canada also topped the medal table
for the first time.
Ten sports were featured at the Edmonton Games
– athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling,
gymnastics, lawn bowls, shooting, swimming and
diving, weightlifting and wrestling.
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