Kingston, Jamacia 1966

Trivia

The Games were held between 4-13 August 1966
With the British Empire formally ended, the Kingston Games became the VIII British Commonwealth Games.
There was a worry amongst the larger nations that Jamaica’s infrastructure would not enable a successful Games delivery – but this proved to be largely unfounded.
Controversially, the event programme was altered for the first time since 1950 with lawn bowls and rowing dropped and replaced with badminton and shooting instead.
Thirty-four nations competed in the Kingston Games sending a total of 1,316 athletes and officials

The nine sports featured in the Kingston Games were athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, fencing, 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
1966	England Australia Canada New Zealand	33 23 14 8	24 28 20 5	23 22 23 13	80 73 57 26