Commonwealth Games

Sydney, Australia 1938

The Games were held between 5-12 February 1938
This was the first time the Games were held in the southern hemisphere.
The famous Sydney Cricket Ground hosted the opening ceremony in front of 40,000 spectators.
Fifteen nations participated, involving a total of 466 athletes and 43 officials. New participants included Fiji and Ceylon.
In 1938 athletes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland took four months to travel to the Empire Games in Sydney – three months of which were spent on a boat. Twice a week they would stop at a port to allow training.
Australia's Decima Norman’s winning performances in Athletics at the 1938 Games - 1st in all events in which she competed, winning 5 Gold medals (100 yards, 220 yards, Broad Jump, 440 yards Medley Relay; 660 yards Medley Relay.

Seven sports were featured in the Sydney Games – track and field, boxing, cycling, lawn bowls, rowing, swimming and diving, 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
1938	Australia England Canada South Africa	24 15 13 10	19 14 16 10	22 10 15 6	65 39 44 26