Commonwealth Games | Definition, History, Trivia, & Facts
                     Commonwealth Games | 
Definition, History, Trivia, & Facts
Mirjam Nilsson
INTRODUCTION
The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-
sport event involving athletes from the 
Commonwealth of Nations. 
The event was first held in 1930 and has taken place 
every four years since then (with the exception of 
1942 and 1946, which were cancelled due to World 
War II).
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HISTORY
Commonwealth games has some rather interesting 
history and background to it as it was developed as a 
sporting competition bringing together the members 
of the British Empire and was first proposed by John 
Astley Cooper in 1891, when he wrote an article in 
The Times suggesting a “Pan-Britannic-Pan-Anglican 
Contest and Festival every four years as a means of 
increasing goodwill and good understanding of the 
British Empire”.
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FIRST COMMONWEALTH 
GAMES 
First Commonwealth Games were organised in the 
Hamilton city of Canada in 1930. There were 400 
players from 11 countries participated in the first 
Commonwealth Games.
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FIRST COMMONWEALTH 
GAMES IN INDIA
India has hosted the Commonwealth Games first time 
in the Delhi in 2010. India had won the 101 medals 
and secured the second place in the medal tally in 
Commonwealth Games
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COMMONWEALTH GAMES 
IN DELHI
 India's best performance in Commonwealth Games 
was in Delhi. India has participated 16 times in the 
Commonwealth Games. So far India has won 438 
medals (comprise of 155 gold medals, 155 silver 
medals and 128 bronze medals) in the Commonwealth 
Games.
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TWENTY FIRST 
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
 Twenty first Commonwealth Games are in the 
progress in the "Gold Coast", Australia. Australia is 
organizing the Commonwealth Games 5th time. 
Current Commonwealth Games has 19 sports. There 
are 71 teams from 53 countries are participating in 
the 21st Commonwealth Games.
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THIRD BIGGEST EVENT OF 
THE WORLD
Commonwealth Games are the third biggest event of 
the world after the Olympic Games and Asian games. 
In Rio olympic-2016; 11238 players participated, 
9,501 athletes participated in the Asian games 2014 
and 4947 players are participating in the ongoing 
Commonwealth Games.
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THE GAMES INCLUDE LOTS 
OF DIFFERENT SPORTS
During the Commonwealth Games, there are lots of 
different sports to choose from.
They include aquatics, athletics, badminton, 
basketball, beach volleyball, bowls, boxing, cycling, 
gymnastics, hockey, netball, squash, table tennis, 
triathlon, weightlifting, wrestling and more.
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MEDALS OF INDIA
India has won 438 medals overall and during 2010 
games, India bagged a record 101 medals (38 gold, 27 
silver, 36 bronze).
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THANK YOU
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