Commonwealth Games

Hamilton, Canada 1930

The Games were held between 16-23 August 1930
These Games were known as the British Empire Games.
The Games included over 400 athletes from 11 countries.
Bobby Robinson, who was a major player within athletics in Canada at the time, was the driving force behind the event. He was an influential figure in Canadian athletics, and finally put into action a sports plan that had been talked and discussed amongst Commonwealth nations for almost three decades.
To help cover the traveling costs for the visiting nations, the City of Hamilton provided $30,000.
This was evidenced in 1930 in the early rounds of the men’s 100m where New Zealand’s Allan Elliott false started twice and was disqualified. The crowd reacted with such noise that the starter was unable to re-start the race until Elliott was allowed back in. Twenty years later in 1950 in Auckland the New Zealanders returned the favour..

There were six sports: Athletics; Bowls; Boxing; Rowing; Swimming; 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
1930	England Canada South Africa New Zealand	25 20 6 3	23 15 4 4	13 19 7 2	61 54 17 9