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Kiribati

Trivia

  • Kiribati became a member of the Commonwealth Games Federation in 1998 in time to send its first ever team to the Kuala Lumpur 1998 Games.

  • Two competitors took part in the weightlifting in Malaysia and in Manchester, four years later, a delegation of 15 people representing track and field, weightlifting, triathlon and table tennis attended.

  • Kiribati (pronounced 'Kiribas') is made up off 33 islands (21 inhabited) across 5.2 million square kms of ocean and joined the Commonwealth in 1979. See map of Kiribati.

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