Commonwealth Games 2018
Share the dream | |
Venue: | Gold Coast , Australia |
Opening ceremony: | 4th April 2018 |
Closing ceremony: | April 15, 2018 |
Competitions: | 275 in 18 sports |
Countries: | 71 |
Medal table | |||||
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space | country | G | S. | B. | total |
1 | Australia | 80 | 59 | 59 | 198 |
2 | England | 45 | 45 | 46 | 136 |
3 | India | 26th | 20th | 20th | 66 |
4th | Canada | 15th | 40 | 27 | 82 |
5 | New Zealand | 15th | 16 | 15th | 46 |
6th | South Africa | 13 | 11 | 13 | 37 |
7th | Wales | 10 | 12 | 14th | 36 |
8th | Scotland | 9 | 13 | 22nd | 44 |
9 | Nigeria | 9 | 9 | 6th | 24 |
10 | Cyprus | 8th | 1 | 5 | 14th |
Complete medal table |
The 21st Commonwealth Games took place from April 4th to 15th, 2018 in the Australian city of Gold Coast . After 1938 in Sydney , 1962 in Perth , 1982 in Brisbane and 2006 in Melbourne , it was the fifth Commonwealth Games in Australia.
canditature
On November 11, 2011, Gold Coast was announced as the host of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In the elections in Basseterre , St. Kitts and Nevis , Gold Coast prevailed against its only competitor Hambantota , Sri Lanka with 43:27 votes.
sports
There were 18 sports on the program. The disciplines of road cycling , track cycling and mountain biking were grouped under the sport of cycling , the disciplines of swimming and diving under the sport of swimming and the disciplines of apparatus gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics under the sport of gymnastics .
Compared to the 2014 Commonwealth Games , judo was dropped , while basketball was reinstated. Beach volleyball was part of the games program for the first time. In the 7-Rugby , a women's tournament was held for the first time.
Opening ceremony | qualification | decision | Graduation ceremony |
April | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | 9. | 10. | 11. | 12. | 13. | 14th | 15th | Ges. |
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badminton | 1 | 5 | 6th | ||||||||||
basketball | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
beach volleyball | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Bowls | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |||||||
Boxing | 16 | 16 | |||||||||||
Weightlifting | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4th | 4th | 20th | ||||||
hockey | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
athletics | 4th | 7th | 8th | 7th | 10 | 9 | 9 | 4th | 58 | ||||
Netball | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Cycling | 6th | 4th | 6th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 2 | 26th | |||||
Rhythmic sports gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 4th | 6th | |||||||||
Wrestling | 4th | 4th | 4th | 12 | |||||||||
7-a-side rugby | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
shoot | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 19th | |||||
swim | 7th | 9 | 8th | 8th | 9 | 9 | 50 | ||||||
squash | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
Table tennis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 2 | 9 | |||||||
Triathlon | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||
do gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14th | |||||||
Diving | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||
April | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | 9. | 10. | 11. | 12. | 13. | 14th | 15th | Ges. |
participating countries
In total, athletes from 71 countries and areas of the Commonwealth took part.
Nominations
At the end of October 2017, the United Kingdom nominated 75 athletes, including long jumper Greg Rutherford , who missed the 2017 World Championships in London due to injury , as well as the heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson , the sprinters Adam Gemili (100 m) and Dina Asher-Smith (200 m) or Long jumper Shara Proctor .
At the beginning of January 2018 Canada nominated 46 athletes, including the decathlon defender and third at the 2016 Olympic Games Damian Warner , 2015 world champion in pole vault Shawnacy Barber and sprinter Andre De Grasse , also third at the 2016 Olympic Games .
The Jamaican hurdler Omar McLeod decided not to take part because this date would be too close to the World Indoor Championships and he feared that there would not be enough time to regenerate for his planned competitions. Asafa Powell had to resign due to a hamstring injury.
Namibia announced the nomination of 27 athletes on February 27, 2018.
The Australian Sally Pearson had to cancel her start because an old injury to the Achilles tendon broke open again.
Sports facilities
A big advantage of Gold Coast's application was that around 80 percent of the sports facilities were already there. In addition, most of the sports facilities were located near the planned athletes' village in Parkwood . The location of the opening and closing ceremonies was the Carrara Stadium . The track cycling competitions were held in the Anna Meares Velodrome, which opened in 2016 .
Attendees
The Australian government issued 13,600 visas for athletes, coaches and support staff during the Games.
refugees
According to the authorities, around 250 of the people who had arrived refused to leave Australia after the end of the Games. Around 190 of them had applied for asylum by May 20, 2018. According to the press, most of them came from African states, including Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrew Potts: Exclusive: Beach volleyball to be played at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. In: goldcoastbulletin.com.au. March 8, 2016, accessed April 5, 2018 .
- ^ Canadian Press : Women's rugby added to Commonwealth Games. In: sportsnet.ca. October 7, 2014, accessed April 5, 2018 .
- ^ Nation Schedule. 218 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved April 3, 2018
- ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - Great Britain nominated 75 athletes for the Commonwealth Games 2018 ( memento of October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), notes, October 25, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Commonwealth Games with Warner, de Grasse and Barber ( Memento of January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, January 12, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43313988
- ↑ Martin Neumann: Flash News of the Day - Commonwealth Games without Asafa Powell ( Memento from March 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, March 24, 2018, accessed March 24, 2018
- ↑ Namibia's Commonwealth Games team almost complete. Namibia Press Agency , February 27, 2018
- ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/leichtathletik/unter-tranen-hurden-star-pearson-sagt-start-bei-commonwealth-games_sto6700964/story.shtml
- ↑ Contact Kathy Mc Leish: Cycling star Anna Meares take first lap at $ 59m velodrome named in her honor. In: abc.net.au. November 12, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
- ↑ a b David Wroe: "More than 200 asylum seekers among Commonwealth Games teams" The Sydney Morning Herald, May 21, 2018