Commonwealth Games 2018

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XXI. Commonwealth Games
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Venue: Gold Coast , Australia
Opening ceremony: 4th April 2018
Closing ceremony: April 15, 2018
Competitions: 275 in 18 sports
Countries: 71
Medal table
space country G S. B. total
1 AustraliaAustralia Australia 80 59 59 198
2 EnglandEngland England 45 45 46 136
3 IndiaIndia India 26th 20th 20th 66
4th CanadaCanada Canada 15th 40 27 82
5 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 15th 16 15th 46
6th South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 13 11 13 37
7th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales 10 12 14th 36
8th ScotlandScotland Scotland 9 13 22nd 44
9 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 9 9 6th 24
10 Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus 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.
To celebrate
badminton 1 5 06th
basketball 1 1 02
beach volleyball 2 02
Bowls 2 2 1 2 3 10
Boxing 16 16
Weightlifting 3 3 3 3 4th 4th 20th
hockey 2 02
athletics 4th 7th 8th 7th 10 9 9 4th 58
Netball 1 01
Cycling 6th 4th 6th 4th 2 2 2 26th
Rhythmic sports gymnastics 1 1 4th 06th
Wrestling 4th 4th 4th 12
7-a-side rugby 2 02
shoot 3 3 3 3 1 3 3 19th
swim 7th 9 8th 8th 9 9 50
squash 2 1 2 05
Table tennis 1 1 1 4th 2 09
Triathlon 2 3 05
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

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ^ Canadian Press : Women's rugby added to Commonwealth Games. In: sportsnet.ca. October 7, 2014, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Nation Schedule. 218 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved April 3, 2018
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43313988
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ Namibia's Commonwealth Games team almost complete. Namibia Press Agency , February 27, 2018
  9. ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/leichtathletik/unter-tranen-hurden-star-pearson-sagt-start-bei-commonwealth-games_sto6700964/story.shtml
  10. ↑ 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 .
  11. ↑ a b David Wroe: "More than 200 asylum seekers among Commonwealth Games teams" The Sydney Morning Herald, May 21, 2018