C.W.G. FIRST EVER IN SOUTH ASIA (INDIA)

                                  COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010


The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event which consist  competitions involving thousands of elite athletes from members of the Commonwealth of Nations. which is Organised every four years, they are the third-largest multi-sport event in the world, after the Summer Olympic Games and the Asian Games.

It was first started in 1930 with the title British Empire Games.It is renamed by the name of British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 & British Commonwealth Games in 1970 & but at the end it got its current title that is commonwealth games.

This is first time that any of the south Asian country

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is hosting the commonwealth games and that is INDIA(2010).
Before that one of the Asian country hosted C.W.G. 
and that is Malaysia (1998) but that is south east Asian country.


Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Australia has been the highest scoring team for ten games.


       DETAILS OF HOSTING  COUNTRY OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Games	Year	Host	Dates	Sportss	Events	Nations	Competitors				1954	Vancouver, Canada	30 July – 7 August	9	91	24	662			127
							VI	1958	Cardiff, Wales,		18 – 26 July	9	94	35	1122			228
VII	1962	Perth, Australia	22 November – 1 December	9	104	35	863			178
VIII	1966	Kingston, Jamaica	4 – 13 August	9	110	34	1050			266
British Commonwealth Games
IX	1970	Edinburgh, Scotland	16 – 25 July	9	121	42	1383			361
X	1974	Christchurch, New Zealand	24 January – 2 February	9	121	38	1276	977	299	372
Commonwealth Games
XI	1978	Edmonton, Canada	3 – 12 August	10	128	46	1474
XII	1982	Brisbane, Australia	30 September — 9 October	10	142	46	1583
XIII	1986	Edinburgh, Scotland	24 July – 2 August	10	163	26	1662
XIV	1990	Auckland, New Zealand	24 January – 3 February	10	204	55	2073
XV	1994	Victoria, Canada	18 – 28 August	10	217	63	2557
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	11 – 21 September	15	213	70	3633
XVII	2002	Manchester, England	25 July – 4 August	171	281	72	3679
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Australia	15 – 26 March	162	245	71	4049
XIX	2010	Delhi, India	3 – 14 October	17
XX	2014	Glasgow, Scotland	23 July – 3 August
XXI	2018	TBD	TBD

VENUES    

The 17 sports to feature in the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi will be held at six venue clusters and five stand alone venues in Delhi.  Ceremonies, Athletics, Lawn Bowls and Weightlifting will be held at Cluster I:  Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex; Cycling, Gymnastics and Wrestling at Cluster II:  Indira Gandhi Sports Complex; Archery (Qualification Rounds) and Table Tennis at Cluster III: Yamuna Sports Complex; Badminton and Squash at Cluster IV: Siri Fort Sports Complex; Hockey and Archery Finals (India Gate) at Cluster V: MDC National Stadium Complex; and Swimming and Boxing at Cluster VI: Talkatora Garden Complex.






JAI HIND JAI BHARAT 
C.W.G. 2010
                                                                                                              SHASHANK VIKRAM SINGH