Commonwealth Games

Edinburgh, Scotland1986

Edinburgh has hosted the Games twice (1970 and 1986)
The Games were held between 24 July – 2 August 1986
After nearly two decades successfully averting political stay-aways and protests because of apartheid and sanction-busting sports tours to South Africa, the XIII Games, the second to be staged at Edinburgh, was to become known as “the Boycott Games”. Sadly, despite there being so many fond memories of the Scottish hospitality offered in 1970, 32 Commonwealth nations decided that they could not attend because of their opposition to apartheid in sports.
Twenty-six nations did attend the second Edinburgh Games and sent a total of 1,662 athletes and 461 officials.

Ten sports were featured at the second Edinburgh Games – athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, lawn bowls, rowing, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling.

The following list includes the first four ranked teams. The ranking list for all years is available here.

Year	Country	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1986	England Canada Australia New Zealand	52 51 40 8	43 35 46 16	49 31 35 14	144 117 121 38