Commonwealth Games

Edmonton Canada 1978

The Games were held between 3-12 August, 1978
The XI Games was the first to bear the current day name of the Commonwealth Games.
Whilst Edmonton had won the right to host the Games with an audacious vision presented six years earlier to the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly, the Organizers had to walk a careful tightrope in the immediate run up to the Edmonton Games to ensure that there was no repeat of the African nations boycott of the 1976 Montreal Olympics caused by a New Zealand rugby tour of South Africa.
Forty-six countries sent a total of 1,405 athletes and 504 officials to the Edmonton Games. As host nation, Canada also topped the medal table for the first time.

Ten sports were featured at the Edmonton Games – athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, lawn bowls, shooting, swimming and diving, 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
1978	Canada England Australia Kenya	45 27 24 7	31 28 33 6	33 32 27 5	109 87 84 18