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Venues of the games since 1930 are as follows:

1930 
Hamilton, Canada
1934 
London, England
1938 
Sydney, Australia
1950 
Auckland,NewZealand
1954 
Vancouver, Canada
1958 
Cardiff, Wales
1962 
Perth, Australia
1966 
Kingston, Jamaica
1970 
Edinburgh, Scotland
1974 
Christchurch,NewZealand
1978 EdmontonCanada
1982 Brisbane,Australia
1986 Edinburgh,Scotland
1990 
Auckland,NewZealand
1994 
Victoria, Canada
1998 
Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
2002 Manchester,England
2006
Melbourne,Australia
www.melbourne2006.com.au

(to access Commonwealth Games Federation website
 click on above logo)
 

The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi are expecting the largest ever number of athletes.  A new Games village on 118 acres will be linked to metro rail, new motorway systems and new airport and railway stations.  The final sport programme was approved in 2006, adding the sports of Archery and Tennis, which will be a total of 17 participating sports, as follows:

• Aquatics - Swimming, Diving

• Archery

• Athletics

• Badminton

• Boxing

• Cycling - Road, Track, Mountain Bike

• Gymnastics - Artistic, Rhythmic

• Hockey

• Lawn Bowls

• Netball

• Rugby Sevens

• Shooting - Clay, Fullbore, Smallbore, Pistol

• Squash

• Table Tennis

• Tennis

• Weightlifting

• Wrestling

Please visit our Photo Gallery for images of the 2006 Queen's Baton Relay visit to Bermuda

The XVII Commonwealth Games
were held in Melbourne, Australia
March 15th - 26th 2006
Click on the above link for more details on the Games.
 

At the 1990 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand,  High Jumper Clarence (Nicky) Saunders became the first Bermudian to win a Gold Medal at a major sporting event.

Since competing in the first Commonwealth Games (then called the British Empire Games) in 1930, Bermuda has won a total of five medals.  Our first medal was won in 1966 when John Morbey won a Silver Medal in the Men's Long Jump (7.89m).

Clarence Saunders won a Bronze Medal in 1982 in the Men's High Jump (2.19m) and in 1990 bettered his performance with a Gold Medal performance of 2.36m.

1994 saw Brian Wellman win the Bronze in the Men's Triple Jump (17.00 meters)

In 1998 the Bermuda Men's Doubles Ten Pin Bowling Team won the Silver Medal with 3329 points.

Kris Hedges
Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002
Photo courtesy of www.britishcycling.org.uk 

Tyler Butterfield competing in the Triathlon event
Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002

The photo taken at the top of this page is the Bermuda Team at the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England

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