 Logo of 1994 Commonwealth Games | |
| Host city | Victoria, Canada |
|---|---|
| Motto | Catch The Spirit |
| Nations | 63 |
| Athletes | 2,557 |
| Events | 217 events in 10 sports |
| Opening | 18 August 1994 |
| Closing | 28 August 1994 |
| Opened by | Elizabeth II |
| Closed by | Prince Edward |
| Queen's Baton Final Runner | Myriam Bédard |
| Main venue | Centennial Stadium |
The1994Commonwealth Games (French:XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth) were held inVictoria,British Columbia,Canada, between 18 and 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics,aquatics, badminton,boxing, cycling, gymnastics,lawn bowls, shooting,weightlifting, andwrestling. These were the fourth and most recent Commonwealth Games to be hosted by Canada, afterHamilton 1930,Vancouver 1954, andEdmonton 1978.
Three bids for the 1994 Commonwealth Games were submitted. Victoria, New Delhi, and Cardiff were the bidding cities. On 15 September 1988, theCommonwealth Games Federation voted to award Victoria the 1994 Commonwealth Games.[1]
| City | Country | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria |  Canada | 29 |
| New Delhi |  India | 18 |
| Cardiff |  Wales | 7 |
Many of the venues were existing, with theSaanich Commonwealth Place being built at $22 million CAD being the biggest spend for a new event.[2] Other new venues included four new lawn bowl courts and the velodrome.[2][3]
The 1994 games was the last time team sports were excluded. In 1991, theCommonwealth Games Federation deemed the original setup of ten sports to be obsolete. Beginning with the1998 games, team sports such asRugby sevens, Basketball, andField hockey were added. The decision was taken to encourage more revenue streams fromtelevision by making the games more attractive to viewing audiences.
The opening ceremony featured production design by Mary Kerr in collaboration withChief Adam Dick, Clan Chief Kwaxistella of theKwaxkwaka'wakw (then known as the Kwakiutl), and Kim Recalma Clutesi.[4] A simple friendly atmosphere was the theme to the Opening Ceremonies. In the presence ofPrince Edward, the Athletes had a long march past to their seated area (an idea created four years previously and emulated since at the2014 Games in Glasgow). Welcome speeches and flag raisings were followed by aprecision horse riding display by theRoyal Canadian Mounted Police. A visual and theatrical display by theFour Nations Tribes culminated in a massiveThunderbird symbol covering the entire inner field.[4] This was followed by a flypast by theSnowbirdsCanadian Forcesaerobatic display team.
There were 63 participating nations at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. The XV Commonwealth Games markedSouth Africa's return to the Commonwealth Games following theapartheid era, and 36 years since the country last competed in theGames in 1958.Namibia participated in its first Games after gaining independence from South Africa in 1990, and the Caribbean island ofMontserrat also made their Games debut. This wasHong Kong's last appearance at the Games before thetransfer of sovereignty from Britain toChina.
| Participating Commonwealth Countries & Territories |
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| Debuting Commonwealth Countries and Territories |
There were events in 14 disciplines across 10 sports for the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
The following table shows a summary of the competition schedule.
| OC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Event finals | CC | Closing ceremony |
| August | 18 Thu | 19 Fri | 20 Sat | 21 Sun | 22 Mon | 23 Tue | 24 Wed | 25 Thu | 26 Fri | 27 Sat | 28 Sun | Events | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceremonies | OC | CC | |||||||||||
 Athletics | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 44 | |||||
 Badminton | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 5 | 6 | ||||
 Boxing | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 12 | 12 | ||||
 Cycling | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | ||||||
 Diving | ● | 2 | ● | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
 Gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 20 | |||||
 Lawn bowls | ● | ● | ● | 2 | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |||
 Shooting | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 32 | |||
 Synchronised swimming | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
 Swimming | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 34 | ||||||
 Weightlifting | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 30 | |||||||
 Wrestling | ● | 5 | 5 | 10 | |||||||||
| Total events | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 217 | ||
| Cumulative total | 13 | 30 | 50 | 74 | 99 | 121 | 140 | 165 | 206 | 217 | |||
| August | 18 Thu | 19 Fri | 20 Sat | 21 Sun | 22 Mon | 23 Tue | 24 Wed | 25 Thu | 26 Fri | 27 Sat | 28 Sun | Events | |
This is a full table of the medal count of the 1994 Commonwealth Games. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by theIOC,IAAF andBBC.
This was the first time since the commencement of the British Empire Games (in 1930) that England did not achieve a medal ranking in the top two.
* Host nation (Canada)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Australia | 89 | 53 | 44 | 186 |
| 2 | Canada* | 40 | 42 | 47 | 129 |
| 3 |  England | 30 | 45 | 51 | 126 |
| 4 |  Nigeria | 11 | 13 | 13 | 37 |
| 5 |  Kenya | 7 | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 6 | India | 6 | 11 | 7 | 24 |
| 7 |  Scotland | 6 | 3 | 11 | 20 |
| 8 |  New Zealand | 5 | 16 | 21 | 42 |
| 9 | Wales | 5 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 10 |  Northern Ireland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 11 |  Nauru | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 |  South Africa | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 13 |  Jamaica | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 14 |  Malaysia | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 15 |  Cyprus | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 16 |  Sri Lanka | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 |  Zambia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 |  Namibia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 19 |  Zimbabwe | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 |  Papua New Guinea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Western Samoa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 |  Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 23 |  Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 24 |  Ghana | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Uganda | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 27 |  Bermuda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Botswana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Guernsey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Seychelles | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Tonga | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (33 entries) | 218 | 217 | 248 | 683 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | ||||||
| Time Trial | Shane Kelly Australia | 00:01:05 | Darryn Hill Australia | 00:01:06 | Tim O'Shannessey Australia | 00:01:07 |
| Sprint | Gary Neiwand Australia | Curt Harnett Canada | Darryn Hill Australia | |||
| Individual Pursuit | Brad McGee Australia | 00:04:31 | Shaun Wallace England | 00:04:35 | Stuart O'Grady Australia | 00:04:35 |
| Team Pursuit |  AustraliaBrett Aitken Brad McGee Stuart O'Grady Tim O'Shannessey | 00:04:10 | England Tony Doyle Rob Hayles Chris Newton Bryan Steel | caught | New Zealand Brendon Cameron Julian Dean Glen Thomson Lee Vertongen | 00:04:22 |
| 10 Miles Scratch | Stuart O'Grady Australia | 00:18:51 | Glenn McLeay New Zealand | 00:18:51 | Brian Walton Canada | 00:18:51 |
| Points Race | Brett Aitken Australia | 38 | Stuart O'Grady Australia | 37 | Dean Woods Australia | 23 |
| Women | ||||||
| Sprint | Tanya Dubnicoff Canada | Michelle Ferris Australia | Donna Wynd New Zealand | |||
| Individual Pursuit | Kathy Watt Australia | 00:03:49 | Sarah Ulmer New Zealand | 00:03:51 | Jacqui Nelson New Zealand | 00:03:55 |
| Points Race | Yvonne McGregor England | 5 | Jacqui Nelson New Zealand | 1+32 | Sally Hodge Wales | 1+28 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | ||||||
| Road Race | Mark Rendell New Zealand | 04:46:08 | Brian Fowler New Zealand | 04:48:10 | Willem Engelbrecht South Africa | 04:48:10 |
| Team Time Trial | Australia Phil Anderson Brett Dennis Henk Vogels Damian McDonald | 01:53:19 | England Peter Longbottom Matt Illingworth Simon Lillistone Paul Jennings | 01:56:41 | New Zealand Brian Fowler Paul Leitch Tim Pawson Mark Rendell | 01:56:53 |
| Women | ||||||
| Road Race | Kathy Watt Australia | 02:48:05 | Linda Jackson Canada | 02:48:35 | Alison Sydor Canada | 02:50:17 |
| Team Time Trial | Australia Catherine Reardon Kathy Watt Louise Nolan Rachel Marianne Victor | 01:04:03 | Canada Alison Sydor Anne Samplonius Clara Hughes Lesley A Tomlinson | 01:04:19 | England Julia Freeman Maria Lawrence Maxine Johnson Yvonne McGregor | 1:06:32.85 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | ||||||
| All-Around | Kasumi Takahashi Australia | 36.85 | Camille Martens Canada | 36.6 | Debbie Southwick England Joanne Walker Scotland | 36.35 |
| Team | Canada Camille Martens Gretchen McLennan Lindsay Richards | 106.9 | Australia Kasumi Takahashi Katie Mitchell Leigh Marning | 105.3 | England Aicha McKenzie Debbie Southwick Linda Southwick | 103.3 |
| Ball | Kasumi Takahashi Australia | 9.2 | Camille Martens Canada | 9 | Aicha McKenzie England Gretchen McLennan Canada | 8.8 |
| Clubs | Kasumi Takahashi Australia | 9.4 | Camille Martens Canada | 9.15 | Leigh Marning Australia | 9 |
| Hoop | Kasumi Takahashi Australia | 9.3 | Lindsay Richards Canada | 9.05 | Aicha McKenzie England | 8.9 |
| Ribbon | Kasumi Takahashi Australia | 9.2 | Camille Martens Canada | 9.05 | Gretchen McLennan Canada | 9 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men/Open | ||||||
| Trap | Mansher Singh India | 141 | George Leary Canada | 140 | Andreas Angelou Cyprus | 137 |
| Trap – Pairs | Tom Hewitt Samuel Allen Northern Ireland | 188 | Ron Bonotto George Leary Canada | 187 | Bob Borsley John Grice England | 186 |
| Skeet | Ian Hale Australia | 144 | Christos Kourtellas Cyprus | 143 | Andy Austin England | 143 |
| Skeet – Pairs | Antonakis Andreou Christos Kourtellas Cyprus | 189 | Brian Thomson Geoffrey Jukes New Zealand | 186 | Michael Thomson Ian Marsden Scotland | 186 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | |||
| Light Flyweight | Jacob Isaac Nigeria | Paul Ragusa Canada | Ramesh Kumar India |
| Flyweight | Selwyn Tam Canada | Andrew Hutchinson England | Kirpa Shankar India |
| Bantamweight | Robert Dawson Canada | Ashok Kumar Garg India | Cory O'Brien Australia |
| Featherweight | Marty Calder Canada | John Melling England | Aroutioun Barseguian Cyprus |
| Lightweight | Chris Wilson Canada | Ibo Oziti Nigeria | Muhammad Umar Pakistan |
| Welterweight | David Hohl Canada | Rein Ozoline Australia | Calum McNeil Scotland |
| Middleweight | Justin Abdou Canada | Randhir Singh India | Muhammad Bhola Pakistan |
| Light Heavyweight | Scott Bianco Canada | Victor Kodei Nigeria | Graeme English Scotland |
| Heavyweight | Greg Edgelow Canada | Noel Loban England | Subhash Verma India |
| Super Heavyweight | Andrew Borodow Canada | Bidei Jackson Nigeria | Amerjit Singh England |
The official mascot of the Games was ananthropomorphickiller whale named "Klee Wyck".[6] This nickname, meaning "the laughing one", was given to Canadian painter and sculptorEmily Carr by theYuułuʔiłʔatḥ Nation.[7]
In preparation for 1994 Commonwealth Games, a boxing committee was formed in 1989. The chairperson of the boxing committee was Hassan Sunderani, and the initial members were Brian Zelley, Glyn Jones and Mike Sartori.
In the initial stages, of the committee one of the immediate tasks was to prepare a guide as to what was expected at the Games, and to document some history ofamateur boxing in theGreater Victoria area. The primary work was done by chairperson Sunderani while the local boxing history was assigned to committee member Zelley, a previous news editor for the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association in the mid-1980s and a contributor of boxing news to various news outlets in the 1970s and 80s.
The next order of business was to start the process of organising volunteers. The first formal public meeting to begin this process took place in Victoria in the boardroom of the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society on 21 April 1990. The meeting included three of the committee members, a VCHS official, and seven potential volunteers including two former Vancouver Island Amateur Boxing commissioners – Bert Wilkinson and Rick Brough.
The primary decision was to arrange a bigger meeting and consider reviving the Greater Victoria Amateur Boxing Association on a formal or informal basis, and to have former experienced people with some background in the sport ofamateur boxing. That meeting took place on 13 May 1990 with 23 persons in attendance and was listed as the "Greater Victoria Amateur Boxing Association Founding Meeting". This would become an important meeting to begin the real work in preparation of volunteers, have a representative attend the1990 Seattle Goodwill Games to observe, and plan and prepare for a test event in 1993. Preliminary coverage of the 13 May meeting included a piece titled "Approaching Games to lift amateur boxing's profile". The reporter Jeff Rud interviewed Games official John Stothart and boxing committee members Mike Sartori and Brian Zelley.[8]
The 1993 test event was held in August and included some top Canadian boxers such asDale Brown of Calgary. Brown was highlighted in the local paper with the headlines "Brown building impressive ring career";[9] at the end of the tournament the localTimes-Colonist newspaper reported "Tournament was a perfect dry run".[10]
During 1991 Hassan Sunderani resigned as the chairman and committee member Brian Zelley stepped-in for a one-year period as the acting chairman of the committee. During this period, the primary role was to attend Sports Committee meetings[11] while the local boxing community started to organise for potential boxing club activity. In 1992, Sunderani resumed his position and steps were taken to prepare for the pre-Commonwealth Games event in 1993. Also, some new members were appointed to the boxing committee such as Tom Black.[12]
| Preceded by Auckland | Commonwealth Games Victoria XV Commonwealth Games | Succeeded by Kuala Lumpur |
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