Canada at the Commonwealth Games

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Canada at the
Commonwealth Games
CGF codeCAN
CGACommonwealth Sport Canada
Websitecommonwealthsport.ca
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
510
Silver
548
Bronze
589
Total
1,647
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Newfoundland (1930, 1934)

Canada has participated in every Commonwealth Games since the first ever British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Ontario in 1930, one of only six countries to have done so. The others are Australia, England, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales.

History[edit]

Newfoundland competed separately at the 1930 and 1934 Games (although not winning any medals), but since 1950 has competed as part of Canada.

The Canadian team won 54 medals in the first (1930) Games, and 51 gold medals at Edinburgh (1986). Canada's biggest total medal tally was 129 medals in Victoria (1994).

Canada came third in the medal count at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne after Australia and England, and is third on the all-time medal tally of Commonwealth Games, with an overall total of 1318 medals (413 Gold, 443 Silver and 462 Bronze). Canada was top of the medal tally once, at the 1978 games at Edmonton.

Canada has hosted the games four times. The first Games were at Hamilton, Ontario in 1930. Vancouver hosted the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games notable for the famous "miracle mile" (four-minute mile) between Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia at Empire Stadium. Edmonton was the first city to host the Commonwealth Games under that name in 1978, and Victoria, British Columbia hosted the Games in 1994.

Montreal was set to host the games in 1942 but they were cancelled due to the Second World War. Canada was offered to host them in 1950 but declined.[1]

Hamilton applied to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games but lost to the Delhi bid. Halifax, Nova Scotia withdrew its bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The Commonwealth Games Association in Canada, known as Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) is responsible for organizing the Canadian team participating in the Commonwealth Games.

Medals[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Canada 1930 Hamilton 20 15 19 54 2
England 1934 London 15 25 9 49 2
Australia 1938 Sydney 13 16 15 44 3
New Zealand 1950 Auckland 8 9 13 30 4
Canada 1954 Vancouver 10 20 14 43 4
Wales 1958 Cardiff 1 10 16 27 9
Australia 1962 Perth 4 12 15 31 5
Jamaica 1966 Kingston 14 20 23 57 3
Scotland 1970 Edinburgh 18 24 24 66 3
New Zealand 1974 Christchurch 25 19 18 62 3
Canada 1978 Edmonton 45 31 33 109 1
Australia 1982 Brisbane 26 23 33 82 3
Scotland 1986 Edinburgh 51 34 31 116 2
New Zealand 1990 Auckland 35 41 37 113 3
Canada 1994 Victoria 40 42 47 129 2
Malaysia 1998 Kuala Lumpur 30 31 38 99 3
England 2002 Manchester 31 41 45 117 3
Australia 2006 Melbourne 26 30 31 87 3
India 2010 Delhi 26 17 33 76 4
Scotland 2014 Glasgow 32 16 34 82 3
Australia 2018 Gold Coast 15 40 27 82 4
England 2022 Birmingham 26 32 34 92 3
Total 510 548 589 1647 3

See also[edit]

Canadian medals by Game :

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Host Countries and Cities of the Commonwealth Games". www.topendsports.com. Retrieved March 23, 2020.