Some unknown facts about  common wealth games
                     SOME UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT 
COMMON WEALTH GAMES
Introduction:
• The common wealth game is a multinational, multisport event which fe
atures    competitions involving thousands of elite athletes from all over 
world
• 3rd largest multi sport event in the world after Summer Olympic and As
ian Games.
• Motto is Humanity-Equality-Destiny
• First held in 1930 in the Hamilton city of Canada
How the name took place! 
•
1930 British Empire Games
.
• British Empire & Commonwealth 
1954 Games
• British Commonwealth Games
1970
• Commonwealth Games
1978  
Interesting Facts:
• The idea of organising commonwealth hit while 
the "Festival 
of Empire" organized in honour of George Pancham's 
coron. ation" 
in 1911
 
•First Commonwealth Games were organised in 
the Hamilton 
city of Canada in 1930. Here total of 400 players were 
participated from across 11 countries all around the world.
First Commonwealth Games
Interesting Facts:
• For the first time India hosted the Commonwealth Games 
in
 Delhi in 2010. 
.
• In total India has participated 16 times in the 
Commonwealth
 Games. In Delhi Commonwealth Games India performed 
best till date. So far India has won 438 medals (comprise 
of 155 gold medals, 155 silver medals and 128 bronze 
medals) in the Commonwealth Games.
Commonwealth Games, Delhi, 2010:
Interesting Facts:
• 3rd biggest multi sport event as in Rio olympic-2016; 
11238 
 players participated, 9,501 participated in the Asian games 
2014 .
and 4947 players participated in the 2018 common wealth 
games.
• Only 6 countries Australia, Canada, England, New 
Zealand, Scotland and Wales have participated in all the 
Commonwealth Games organised till date.
Interesting Facts:
• In 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games the 
highest 
number of nations to compete was 72 where as the largest 
numbe.r of athletes (4,929) were present at the 2014 
Glasgow 
Games. 
• Australia’s youngest gold medallist in swimming Jenny 
Turrell, 
who was just 13 when she competed at the 1974 Games in 
Christchurch. 
Interesting Facts:
•For the fifth time Australia has hosted a Commonwealth 
 Games at Gold Coast in 2018.
.
• This is the 21st time Australia will be a part of Commonwealth 
 Games
Interesting Facts:
• The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is the 22nd 
Games to be held. 
• Aust.ralia is the most successful award winner in the history 
of 
 commonwealth Games with 803 gold medals and a total of 
2080 
medals.
Interesting Facts:
• As an Asian country, Malaysia was the first to host the 
Common
 wealth Games 1998 in the city of Kuala Lumpur.
.
• Monkeys were used to guard the 2010 Delhi commonwealth 
games. 
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