XI Commonwealth Games

Host city	Edmonton, Canada
Nations	47
Athletes	1,475
Events	128 events in 11 sports
Opening	3 August 1978
Closing	12 August 1978
Opened by	Elizabeth II
Athlete's Oath	Beverly Boys
Queen's Baton Final Runner	Diane Jones Konihowski
Main venue	Commonwealth Stadium
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The1978Commonwealth Games were held inEdmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3–12 August, two years after the1976 Summer Olympics was held inMontreal, Quebec. They were boycotted byNigeria, in protest at New Zealand's sporting contacts withapartheid-era South Africa, as well as byUganda, in protest at alleged Canadian hostility towards the government ofIdi Amin.^[1] The Bid Election was held at the1972 Summer Olympics inMunich.

This was the first Commonwealth Games where a computerized system was used to handle ticket sales. This was the first Commonwealth Games to be namedCommonwealth Games, having droppedBritish. The Games were opened byQueen Elizabeth II for the first time since becoming Queen in 1952.

1978 Commonwealth Games bidding results

City	Round 1
Edmonton	36
Leeds	10

46 teams were represented at the 1978 Games.
(Teams competing for the first time are shown inbold).

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	45	31	33	109
2	England	27	27	33	87
3	Australia	24	33	27	84
4	Kenya	7	6	5	18
5	New Zealand	5	6	9	20
6	India	5	4	6	15
7	Scotland	3	6	5	14
8	Jamaica	2	2	3	7
9	Wales	2	1	5	8
10	Northern Ireland	2	1	2	5
11	Hong Kong (HKG)	2	0	0	2
12	Malaysia	1	2	1	4
13	Ghana	1	1	1	3
	Guyana	1	1	1	3
15	Tanzania	1	1	0	2
16	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	2	4
	Zambia	0	2	2	4
18	Bahamas	0	1	0	1
	Papua New Guinea	0	1	0	1
20	Western Samoa	0	0	3	3
21	Isle of Man	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		128	128	139	395

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed Team	England  England Anne Statt Barbara Sutton David Eddy Derek Talbot Jane Webster Karen Bridge Kevin Jolly Mike Tredgett Nora Perry Raymond Stevens	Canada  Canada Claire Backhouse Gregory Carter Jamie McKee Jane Youngberg Johanne Falardeau John Czich Kenneth Priestman Lucio Fabris Sharon Crawford Wendy Clarkson	Malaysia  Malaysia Abu Bakar Sufian Chee Geok Whee Moo Foot Lian James Selvaraj Katherine Swee Phek Teh Saw Swee Leong Sylvia Ng Ong Teong Boon
Men's Singles	Prakash Padukone  India	Derek Talbot  England	Ray Stevens  England
Men's Doubles	Ray Stevens Mike Tredgett  England	Moo Foot Lian Ong Beng Teong  Malaysia	Bryan Purser Richard Purser  New Zealand
Women's Singles	Sylvia Ng  Malaysia	Katherine Swee Phek Teh  Malaysia	Wendy Clarkson  Canada
Women's Doubles	Nora Perry Anne Statt  England	Claire Backhouse Jane Youngberg  Canada	Ami Ghia Kanwal Thakar Singh  India
Mixed Doubles	Mike Tredgett Nora Perry  England	Billy Gilliland Joanna Flockhart  Scotland	Derek Talbot Barbara Sutton  England

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight	Stephen Muchoki  Kenya	Francis Kabala  Zambia	Birender Thapa  India
			Kid Jumalia  Ghana
Flyweight	Michael Irungu  Kenya	Ian Clyde  Canada	Peter Wighton  Australia
			Hugh Russell  Northern Ireland
Bantamweight	Barry McGuigan  Northern Ireland	Tumat Sugolik  Papua New Guinea	Douglas Maina  Kenya
			William Rannelli  Canada
Featherweight	Azumah Nelson  Ghana	John Sichula  Zambia	Guy Boutin  Canada
			Moss O'Brien  England
Lightweight	Gerry Hamill  Northern Ireland	Patrick Waweru  Kenya	Teddy Makofi  Zambia
			John McAllister  Scotland
Light Welterweight	Winfield Braithwaite  Guyana	James Douglas  Scotland	John Raftery  Canada
			Michael Mawangi  Kenya
Welterweight	Mike McCallum  Jamaica	Ken Beattie  Northern Ireland	Derrick Hoyt  Canada
			Anthony Feal  Wales
Light Middleweight	Kelly Perlette  Canada	Abdurahman Athuman  Kenya	Ropati Vipo Samu  Samoa
			Enock Chama  Zambia
Middleweight	Philip McElwaine  Australia	Delroy Parkes  England	Roddy MacDonald  Canada
			Richard Betham  Samoa
Light Heavyweight	Roger Fortin  Canada	Vince Smith  England	Fautala Su'a  Samoa
			Edward Thande  Kenya
Heavyweight	Julius Awome  England	Adamah Mensah  Ghana	George Stankovich  New Zealand

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Time Trial	Jocelyn Lovell  Canada	1:06.00	Kenrick Tucker  Australia	00:01:07	Gordon Singleton  Canada	00:01:08
Men's Sprint	Kenrick Tucker  Australia		Trevor Gadd  England		David Weller  Jamaica
Men's Individual Pursuit	Mike Richards  New Zealand	00:04:50	Gary Campbell  Australia	00:04:56	Tony Doyle  England	00:04:56
Men's Team Pursuit	Australia Colin Fitzgerald Kevin Nichols Gary Sutton Shane Sutton	00:04:29	New Zealand Kevin Blackwell Anthony Cuff Neil Lyster Jack Swart	00:04:38	England Tony Doyle Paul Fennell Tony James Glen Mitchell	00:04:51
Men's 10 Miles Scratch	Jocelyn Lovell  Canada	00:20:06	Shane Sutton  Australia	00:20:06	Gary Sutton  Australia	00:20:06
Men's Tandem	Jocelyn Lovell Gordon Singleton  Canada	15.52	Trevor Gadd David Le Grys  England		Ron Boyle Stephen Goodall  Australia

Road

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Road Race	Phil Anderson  Australia	04:22:34	Pierre Harvey  Canada	04:22:35	Garry Bell  New Zealand	04:22:35

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's All-Around	Philip Delesalle  Canada	56.4	Lindsay Nylund  Australia	54.95	Jean Choquette  Canada	54.25
Men's Team	Canada  Canada Jean Choquette Nigel Rothwell Owen Walstrom Philip Delesalle	165.55	England  England Edward Arnold Ian Neale Jeff Davis Thomas Wilson	161.95	Australia  Australia Lambert Ariens Lindsay Nylund Rudolf Starosta Warwick Forbes	158.5
Women's All-Around	Elfi Schlegel  Canada	38.25	Monica Goermann  Canada	37.25
			Sherry Hawco  Canada
Women's Team	Canada  Canada Elfi Schlegel Karen Kelsall Monica Goermann Sherry Hawco	113.25	England  England Joanna Sime Karen Robb Lisa Jackman Susan Cheesebrough	107.4	New Zealand  New Zealand Deborah Hurst Kirsty Durward Lynette Brake Rowena Davis	106.35

Pistol

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's/Open 50m Free Pistol	Yvon Trempe  Canada	543	Edward Jans  Canada	540	Bertram Manhin  Trinidad and Tobago	536
Men's/Open 25m Rapid-Fire Pistol	Jules Sobrian  Canada	587	John Cooke  England	581	Jeff Farrell  Australia	581

Rifle

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's/Open 50m Rifle Prone	Alister Allan  Scotland	1194	Bill Watkins  Wales	1191	Stewart Watterson  Isle of Man	1187
Men's/OpenFullbore Rifle	Desmond Vamplew  Canada	391	James Spaight  England	388	Patrick Vamplew  Canada	387

Shotgun

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's/Open Trap	John Primrose  Canada	186	George Leary  Canada	185	Terry Rumbel  Australia	183
Men's/Open Skeet	John Woolley  New Zealand	193	Paul Bentley  England	191	Joe Neville  England	190

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Mark Morgan  Australia	52.70	Bill Sawchuk  Canada	52.81	Gary MacDonald  Canada	52.90
200 m freestyle	Ron McKeon  Australia	1:52.06	Graeme Brewer  Australia	1:52.86	Mark Morgan  Australia	1:53.16
400 m freestyle	Ron McKeon  Australia	3:54.43	Simon Gray  England	3:56.87	Max Metzker  Australia	3:58.83
1500 m freestyle	Max Metzker  Australia	15:31.92	Simon Gray  England	15:39.39	Andrew Astbury  England	15:42.89
100 m backstroke	Glenn Patching  Australia	57.90	Gary Abraham  England	58.48	Jay Tapp  Canada	59.05
200 m backstroke	Gary Hurring  New Zealand	2:04.37	Glenn Patching  Australia	2:05.76	Paul Moorfoot  Australia	2:05.99
100 m breaststroke	Graham Smith  Canada	1:03.81	Duncan Goodhew  England	1:04.24	Paul Naisby  England	1:06.36
200 m breaststroke	Graham Smith  Canada	2:20.86	Duncan Goodhew  England	2:21.92	Lindsay Spencer  Australia	2:22.49
100 m butterfly	Dan Thompson  Canada	55.04	John Mills  England	56.22	Bill Sawchuk  Canada	56.37
200 m butterfly	George Nagy  Canada	2:01.99	Claus Bredschneider  Canada	2:02.49	Phil Hubble  England	2:02.53
200 m individual medley	Graham Smith  Canada	2:05.25	Bill Sawchuk  Canada	2:05.61	Peter Dawson  Australia	2:09.05
400 m individual medley	Graham Smith  Canada	4:27.34	Simon Gray  England	4:27.70	Bill Sawchuk  Canada	4:27.99
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Canada Bill Sawchuk Gary MacDonald Graham Smith Peter Szmidt	3:27.94	Australia Glenn Patching Graeme Brewer Mark Morgan Ron McKeon	3:28.62	England David Dunne Kevin Burns Martin Smith Richard Burrell	3:30.10
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Australia Graeme Brewer Mark Morgan Max Metzker Ron McKeon	7:34.83	Canada Bill Sawchuk Dennis Corcoran Peter Szmidt Robert Baylis	7:36.58	England David Dunne Martin Smith Philip Hubble Simon Gray	7:42.02
4 × 100 m medley relay	Canada Bill Sawchuk Dan Thompson Graham Smith Jay Tapp	3:49.76	England Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew John Mills Martin Smith	3:50.22	Australia Glenn Patching Graeme Brewer Lindsay Spencer Mark Morgan	3:53.16

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Carol Klimpel  Canada	57.78	Rosemary Brown  Australia	58.30	Wendy Quirk  Canada	58.41
200 m freestyle	Rebecca Perrott  New Zealand	2:00.63	Tracey Wickham  Australia	2:01.50	Michelle Ford  Australia	2:01.64
400 m freestyle	Tracey Wickham  Australia	4:08.45	Michelle Ford  Australia	4:10.25	Rebecca Perrott  New Zealand	4:16.70
800 m freestyle	Tracey Wickham  Australia	8:24.62	Michelle Ford  Australia	8:25.78	Rebecca Perrott  New Zealand	8:44.87
100 m backstroke	Debra Forster  Australia	1:03.97	Hélène Boivin  Canada	1:04.54	Cheryl Gibson  Canada	1:04.68
200 m backstroke	Cheryl Gibson  Canada	2:16.57	Lisa Forrest  Australia	2:17.66	Glenda Robertson  Australia	2:18.32
100 m breaststroke	Robin Corsiglia  Canada	1:13.56	Maggie Kelly  England	1:13.69	Marian Stuart  Canada	1:13.72
200 m breaststroke	Lisa Borsholt  Canada	2:37.70	Debbie Rudd  England	2:38.07	Maggie Kelly  England	2:38.63
100 m butterfly	Wendy Quirk  Canada	1:01.92	Penny McCarthy  New Zealand	1:02.27	Linda Hanel  Australia	1:02.69
200 m butterfly	Michelle Ford  Australia	2:11.29	Wendy Quirk  Canada	2:13.65	Linda Hanel  Australia	2:14.52
200 m individual medley	Sharron Davies  England	2:18.37	Rebecca Perrott  New Zealand	2:18.70	Becky Smith  Canada	2:18.95
400 m individual medley	Sharron Davies  England	4:52.44	Becky Smith  Canada	4:57.83	Cheryl Gibson  Canada	4:59.39
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Canada Carol Klimpel Gail Amundrud Sue Sloan Wendy Quirk	3:50.28	England Cheryl Brazendale Heidi Turk Kaye Lovatt Sharron Davies	3:53.27	Australia Lisa Burnes Michelle Ford Rosemary Brown Tracey Wickham	3:54.11
4 × 100 m medley relay	Canada Carol Klimpel Hélène Boivin Marian Stuart Wendy Quirk	4:15.26	Australia Debra Forster Lisa Curry-Kenny Rosemary Brown Tracey Wickham	4:16.75	England Helen Gilyard Margaret Kelly Sharron Davies Sue Jenner	4:19.87

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Flyweight – Overall	Ekambaram Karunakaran  India	205	Charlie Revolta  Scotland	197.5	Roger Crabtree  Australia	190
Bantamweight – Overall	Precious McKenzie  New Zealand	220	M Tamil Selvan  India	220	Jeffrey Brice  Wales	215
Featherweight – Overall	Michael Mercier  Canada	237.5	Ivan Katz  Australia	235	Darrell Schultz  Canada	230
Lightweight – Overall	Bill Stellios  Australia	272.5	Adrian Kebbe  Australia	267.5	Phillip Sue  New Zealand	262.5
Middleweight – Overall	Sam Castiglione  Australia	300	Newton Burrowes  England	290	Steve Pinsent  England	290
Light Heavyweight – Overall	Robert Kabbas  Australia	322.5	Charles Quagliata  Australia	287.5	Gary Shadbolt  England	277.5
Middle Heavyweight – Overall	Gary Langford  England	335	Terry Hadlow  Canada	330	Brian Marsden  New Zealand	312.5
Sub Heavyweight – Overall	John Burns  Wales	340	Steve Wyatt  Australia	325	Robert Santavy  Canada	315
Heavyweight – Overall	Russ Prior  Canada	347.5	Wayne Smith  Canada	337.5	Andy Drzewiecki  England	335
Super Heavyweight – Overall	Jean-Marc Cardinal  Canada	365	Bob Edmond  Australia	322.5	John Hynd  Scotland	305

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight	Ashok Kumar  India	George Gunouski  Canada	Mark Dunbar  England
Flyweight	Ray Takahashi  Canada	Sudesh Kumar  India	Ken Hoyt  Australia
Bantamweight	Satbir Singh  India	Michael Barry  Canada	Amrik Singh Gill  England
Featherweight	Egon Beiler  Canada	Jagminder Singh  India	Brian Aspen  England
Lightweight	Zsigmund Kelevitz  Australia	Joe Gilligan  England	Jagdish Kumar  India
Welterweight	Rajinder Singh  India	Victor Zilberman  Canada	Keith Haward  England
Middleweight	Richard Deschatelets  Canada	Wally Koenig  Australia	Ivan Weir  Northern Ireland
Light Heavyweight	Stephen Danier  Canada	Mick Pikos  Australia	Kartar Singh  India
Heavyweight	Wyatt Wishart  Canada	Satpal Singh  India	Murray Avery  New Zealand
Super Heavyweight	Robert Gibbons  Canada	Albert Patrick  Scotland	Ishwar Singh  India

• Commonwealth Stadium: Athletics, Opening and Closing Ceremonies (built new for the games)
• University of Alberta Arena: Badminton
• Commonwealth Bowls: Lawn Bowling (built new for the games)
• Edmonton Gardens: Boxing
• Argyll Velodrome: Cycling (built new for the games)
• Northlands Coliseum: Gymnastics
• Strathcona Shooting Range: Shooting (built new for the games)
• Kinsmen Aquatic Centre: Swimming and Diving (built new for the games)
• Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium: Weightlifting
• University of Alberta Gym: Wrestling

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