The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.

The site for the opening and closing ceremonies was the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was also used during Melbourne's 1956 Olympic Games. The mascot for the games was Karak, a Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (a threatened species).^[2]

Organisation[link]

Bidding[link]

During the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, three cities initially expressed interest in hosting the event; Melbourne, Wellington and Singapore. Singapore dropped out before its bid was officially selected by the Commonwealth Games Federation, leaving only two candidate cities. In the weeks prior to the announcement of the 2006 host, Wellington withdrew its bid, citing the costs involved with matching the bid plan presented by Melbourne, which became the default host without members of the Federation going to vote.

Cost and development[link]

2006 Commonwealth Games
Queen's Baton Relay Opening ceremony Events Highlights Medal table Closing ceremony Mascot Festival Melbourne Operation Acolyte

Early concerns arose about the large cost of staging the Games, with projected costs likely to be over 1 billion Australian dollars and a high likelihood the Victorian taxpayer would have to cover the expense. The cost was described in some local media as excessive. National Party leader Peter Ryan said that the Labor government should win "gold (medal) for burning money" [2] However, not all of this money was wasted. The actual costs for hosting the games was 1.144 billion dollars & prior to the Games, accountants at KPMG were estimating that the gross income generated by this event could be as high as 1.5 billion dollars.

Melbourne's premier sporting ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), was redeveloped in preparation for the Games. An athlete's village in the inner suburb of Parkville housed approximately 7,000 athletes and support staff during the Games, and has been transformed into commercial housing with a distinctly eco-friendly image. The creation of this village attracted controversy, with critics claiming it was created by alienating public parkland, while proponents maintained that it represented the renewal of an otherwise derelict inner-city area.^[3]

The change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in Australian states that follow it was delayed from 26 March to 2 April for 2006 to avoid affecting the games. In addition, state and private schools amended their usual term times so as to allow the first term holidays to coincide with the Games.^[4]

Melbourne's public transport system - train, tram and bus - ran to altered timetables with some amended or substituted services for the duration of the Games. For the most part, timetabled services were unchanged but suffered due to higher loads.^[5]

For the first time ever, the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games appointed a Goodwill Partner, Plan International Australia.^[6]

Venues[link]

The following venues were used at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The sport(s) which were played at that venue is listed after it.

Melbourne venues[link]

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Docklands Stadium

Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre

• Docklands Precinct: Walks
• Melbourne Cricket Ground: Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and Athletics
• Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre: Badminton, Boxing and Weightlifting
• Melbourne Gun Club: Clay Target Shooting
• Melbourne International Shooting Club: Small Bore and Pistol Shooting
• Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre: Aquatics, Squash and Table tennis
• Multi Purpose Venue (Melbourne Park): Basketball Finals, Track Cycling and Netball Finals
• Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne Park): Gymnastics
• Royal Botanic Gardens Circuit: Cycling Road Race events
• State Lawn Bowls Centre: Lawn Bowls
• State Netball and Hockey Centre: Netball preliminaries and Hockey
• St Kilda Foreshore and Beach Road: Triathlon and Cycling Time Trial
• Docklands Stadium: Rugby 7s

Regional and suburban venues[link]

Ballarat

Ballarat Minerdome: Basketball

Bendigo

Bendigo Stadium: Basketball
Wellsford Rifle Range: Full Bore Shooting

Geelong

Geelong Arena: Basketball

Lysterfield Park

State Mountain Bike Course: Mountain Bike Cycling

Traralgon

Traralgon Sports Stadium: Basketball

Broadcasting[link]

• The host broadcaster was Trans World International, while the domestic rights-holding broadcaster was the Nine Network in Australia. They showed rolling coverage, except for a break for the evening news and overnight.
• In Australia Fox Sports broadcast the Games on eight dedicated digital Pay-TV channels. These were available on the Foxtel, Austar and Optus Vision networks.
• The BBC covered the Commonwealth Games in the UK on BBC One and BBC Two. BBCi included a choice of two extra video streams on Freeview and four streams on Digital Satellite and Cable [3]. Users with Broadband in the UK could also view all 5 video streams on bbc.co.uk, and the BBC Sport website.
• CBC, CBC Newsworld, and CBC Country Canada aired a daily one-hour highlights show of the Commonwealth Games in Canada. Compared to past games, the CBC's coverage was minimally staffed, with commentary from other broadcasting partners. At first, they did not even consider bidding for the broadcasting rights [4] due to scheduling conflicts with events Canadians are more interested in, such as the Tim Hortons Brier, World Figure Skating Championships, and the 2006 Winter Paralympics (which itself had been reduced to five-to-ten minute daily coverage). None of Canada's metropolitan newspapers sent any journalists to report on the Games, instead relying on news agencies
• TVNZ covered the games for the residents of New Zealand
• In Malaysia, TV1 broadcast live coverage of the Games for three hours starting at 10 a.m. Malaysian time and for two hours starting at 3 p.m., with highlights at 12:30 a.m.. Satellite provider Astro included three dedicated channels to broadcast the Games live to its Sports package subscribers, in addition to delayed broadcast 24 hours later.
• Singapore's MediaCorp TV had supposedly not broadcast the games due to the high cost of telecast rights, satellite charges and the lack of sponsors. However, on 17 March, the MediaCorp found other sponsors which is the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and the Singapore Sports Council. Broadcast started from 18 March till the end of the games. [5]
• In the United States, selected coverage was carried by Fox College Sports.
• Altogether an estimated 4 billion viewers watched the 2006 Commonwealth Games worldwide.

Games[link]

Opening ceremony[link]

Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included many fireworks, and other spectacle. The Games were opened by Queen Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Head of the Commonwealth. The Queen is also Head of State of a number of Commonwealth countries, including Australia.

Sports[link]

Melbourne 2006 XVIII Commonwealth Game - Fish Boats on Yarra River

The 2006 Commonwealth Games included 17 sports, with 12 individual sports and 4 team sports. In total there are 245 events at the Games.

• The athletics, swimming, table tennis and weightlifting sports included fully integrated events for elite athletes with a disability (EAD). These events were included in the official medal tally.

Calendar[link]

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

March		15th Wed	16th Thu	17th Fri	18th Sat	19th Sun	20th Mon	21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24th Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC											CC
Athletics						3	10	6	6	8	9	11		53
Badminton			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	5	5
Basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1			2
Boxing				●	●	●	●	●	●	●		11		11
Cycling			3	3	3	3		2		2			2	18
Diving									2	2	2	2		8
Gymnastics			1	1	2		5	5			1	1	4	24
Field hockey			●	●	●	●	2	●	2	●	2			6
Netball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Rugby sevens			●	1										1
Shooting				6	4	6	5	4	5	5	3	2		40
Squash			●	●	●	●	2		●	●	●	●	3	5
Swimming			5	5	9	5	11	7						42
Synchronised swimming					●	2								2
Table tennis			●	●	●	●	2	●	●	●	●	2	2	6
Weightlifting			2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1			16
Total Events			11	18	20	21	39	26	17	19	19	29	17	245
Cumulative total			11	29	49	70	109	135	152	171	190	219	245
March		15th Wed	16th Thu	17th Fri	18th Sat	19th Sun	20th Mon	21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24tg Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun	Events

Closing ceremony[link]

Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were again centrepieces for the ceremony. Samresh Jung of India was given the David Dixon Award at the closing ceremony. He was the "Best Athlete of the 18th Commonwealth Games". The games were closed by HRH Prince Edward.

Medal table[link]

Note:The country coloured in blue is the host country i.e. Australia

Leisel Jones won four gold medals in the swimming competition, sweeping the breaststroke events and the medley relay.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	84	69	69	222
2	England	36	40	34	110
3	Canada	26	29	31	86
4	India	22	17	11	50
5	South Africa	12	13	13	38
6	Scotland	11	7	11	29
7	Jamaica	10	4	8	22
8	Malaysia	7	12	10	29
9	New Zealand	6	12	13	31
10	Kenya	6	5	7	18

Participation[link]

Countries and places competing at the games

There were 71 countries, territories and bodies competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.^[7] The only difference between the 2006 games and the 2002 games was the absence of Zimbabwe, which withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations.

Missing athletes[link]

On 20 March 2006 it was reported that two athletes had gone missing from the Commonwealth Games village: Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and Bangladeshi runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam.^[8][9]

On 22 March 2006 it was reported that seven athletes from Sierra Leone (three women and four men) had also disappeared. A further seven Sierra Leonean athletes also went missing during the course of the Games, bringing the total runaway count to fourteen (two thirds of the team). Victoria Police believed that they had fled to Sydney where the Sierra Leonean community is much larger than Melbourne's.

Two hours before the Closing Ceremony on 26 March, officials from the Cameroon team reported to police that nine of their members had also vanished.

These incidents were not without precedent: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England (21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan), and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.^[10]

On request of Sierra Leone officials, the Commonwealth Games Federation cancelled those athletes' Games accreditation, allowing the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) to cancel their visas at midnight on 27 March, and begin investigating their disappearance.

Wikinews has related news: Australia grants temporary asylum to 12 Commonwealth Games athletes

At 7.20am on that day, New South Wales Police located six of the Sierra Leonean athletes in a house at Freshwater near Manly Beach in Sydney. All six indicated they wished to seek political asylum in Australia, and were granted bridging visas by DIMA while their refugee applications were arranged. The athletes claimed to have been subjected to violence and torture in their home country; seventeen-year-old Isha Conteh stated she could be forced into female genital cutting if she returned.^[11] On Tuesday 28 March, six further Sierra Leoneans turned themselves in to immigration authorities in Sydney and were also granted bridging visas.^[12]

Two of the missing Cameroon athletes were later found in Perth, Western Australia.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Commonwealth Games

Wikinews has a related section: Commonwealth Games

Official websites

• Official website
• Official medal list

Other sites

• 2006 Commonwealth Games at the Open Directory Project
• Melbourne marathon 1956-2006
• BBC coverage of Commonwealth Games
• 2006 Commonwealth Games - Australian Sports Commission
• Report on the Opening Ceremony - "Toronto Star", Canada
• CLEAN: - Website focusing on city preparation
• Sydneypinz - A Complete collection of pins used by the participating Nations at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Culture Victoria – video, images and text about the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Political opposition to the Games

• The Graffiti games 2006 - Backlash over the graffiti clean up in Melbourne before the games had even begun spawned its own website. [6]
• The Stolenwealth games - Website setup about the treatment of the Indigenous Australian stolen generation.

Commonwealth Games

130px Seal of the Commonwealth Games Federation
165px Commonwealth Games Federation Flag
Abbreviation	CG
Motto	Humanity – Equality – Destiny
First event	1930
Occur every	every 4 years
Purpose	Commonwealth Sports
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
President	Prince Tunku Imran
Website	Commonwealth Games Federation

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years.

It was initially known as the British Empire Games and was renamed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970, before finally gaining its current title for the 1978 edition. The Games are overseen by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), which also controls the sporting programme and selects the host cities. A host city is selected for each edition and eighteen cities in seven countries have hosted the event.

As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball.^[1] Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Australia has been the highest achieving team for eleven games, England for seven and Canada for one.

Although there are 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 71 teams participate in the Commonwealth Games as a number of British overseas territories, Crown dependencies, and island states compete under their own flag. The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – also send separate teams.

History[link]

A sporting competition bringing together the members of the British Empire was first proposed by the Reverend 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 the goodwill and good understanding of the British Empire".

In 1911, the Festival of the Empire was held in London to celebrate the coronation of King George V. As part of the festival an Inter-Empire Championships was held in which teams from Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom competed in events such as boxing, wrestling, swimming and athletics.

In 1928, Melville Marks Robinson of Canada was asked to organise the first British Empire Games. The first Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.^[2]

At the 1930 games, women competed in the swimming events only.^[3] From 1934, women also competed in some athletics events^{[citation needed]}.

The Commonwealth Paraplegic Games were held alongside the Commonwealth Games from 1962 to 1974.^[4] In the regular Commonwealth Games, athletes with a disability were first included in exhibition events at the 1994 Victoria, Canada Games.^[5] At the 2002 Manchester Games they were included as full members of their national teams, making them the first fully inclusive international multi-sport games. This meant that results were included in the medal count.^[6]

The Empire Games flag was donated in 1931 by the British Empire Games Association of Canada. The year and location of subsequent games were added until the 1950 games. The name of the event was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the flag was retired as a result.

• Commonwealth Winter Games
• Commonwealth Youth Games

The 2006 relay passing through Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Traditions[link]

• From 1930 to 1950, the parade of nations was led by a single flagbearer carrying the Union Flag.
• Since 1958, the Queen's Baton Relay has taken place, in which athletes carry a baton from Buckingham Palace to the games opening ceremony. This baton has within it Queen Elizabeth II's message of greeting to the athletes. The baton's final bearer is usually a famous sporting personage of the host nation.
• All other nations march in English alphabetical order, except that the first nation marching in the Parade of Athletes is the host nation of the previous games, and the host nation of the current games marches last. In 2006 countries marched in alphabetical order in geographical regions.

The Big helium aerostat with traditional Indian Rajasthani puppets attached, during the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony

• Three national flags fly from the stadium on the poles that are used for medal ceremonies: Previous host nation, Current host nation, Next host nation.
• The military is more active in the Opening Ceremony than in the Olympic Games. This is to honour the British Military traditions of the Old Empire.

      Countries that have hosted, or plan to host, the event
      Other countries that enter the games
      Countries that have entered the games but no longer do so
0•0 Host cities and year of games

Editions[link]

The first edition of the event was the 1930 British Empire Games and eleven nations took part. The quadrennial schedule of the games was interrupted by the Second World War and the 1942 Games (set to be held in Montreal) and the 1946 Games were abandoned.^[7] The games were continued in 1950 and underwent a name change four years later with the first British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954.^[2] Over 1000 athletes participated in the 1958 Games as over thirty teams took part for the first time.^[8]

The event was briefly known as the British Commonwealth Games for the 1970 and 1974 editions and the 1978 Games, held in Edmonton, Canada, were the first to be held under the title of the "Commonwealth Games".^[2] The Edmonton event marked a new high as almost 1500 athletes from 46 countries took part.^[8]

Participation at the 1986 Games was affected by a boycott by some African and Caribbean nations in protest to the participation of New Zealand, following the All Blacks Rugby tour of Apartheid era South Africa in 1985, but the Games rebounded and continued to grow thereafter. The 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia saw the sporting programme grow from 10 to 15 sports as team sports were allowed for the first time.^[2] Participation also reached new levels as over 3500 athletes represented 70 teams at the event. At the Games in Melbourne in 2006, over 4000 athletes took part in sporting competitions.^[8]

The three nations to have hosted the games the most number of times are Australia (5), Canada (4) and New Zealand (3). Furthermore, six editions have taken place, or will take place, in the countries within the United Kingdom (Scotland 3, England 2 and Wales 1). Two cities have held the games on multiple occasions: Auckland (1950 and 1990), and Edinburgh (1970 and 1986).

Games	Year	Host	Dates	Sports	Events	Nations	Competitors
British Empire Games
I	1930	Hamilton, Canada	16 – 23 August	6	59	11	400
II	1934	London, England	4 – 11 August	6	68	16	500
III	1938	Sydney, Australia	5 – 12 February	7	71	15	464
IV	1950	Auckland, New Zealand	4 – 11 February	9	88	12	590
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
V	1954	Vancouver, Canada	30 July – 7 August	9	91	24	662
VI	1958	Cardiff, Wales	18 – 26 July	9	94	36	1122
VII	1962	Perth, Australia	22 November – 1 December	9	104	35	863
VIII	1966	Kingston, Jamaica	4 – 13 August	9	110	34	1050
British Commonwealth Games
IX	1970	Edinburgh, Scotland	16 – 25 July	9	121	42	1383
X	1974	Christchurch, New Zealand	24 January – 2 February	9	121	38	1276
Commonwealth Games
XI	1978	Edmonton, Canada	3 – 12 August	10	128	46	1474
XII	1982	Brisbane, Australia	30 September — 9 October	10	142	46	1583
XIII	1986	Edinburgh, Scotland	24 July – 2 August	10	163	26	1662
XIV	1990	Auckland, New Zealand	24 January – 3 February	10	204	55	2073
XV	1994	Victoria, Canada	18 – 28 August	10	217	63	2557
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	11 – 21 September	15	213	70	3633
XVII	2002	Manchester, England	25 July – 4 August	171	281	72	3679
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Australia	15 – 26 March	162	245	71	4049
XIX	2010	Delhi, India	3 – 14 October	173	272	71	6700
XX	2014	Glasgow, Scotland	23 July – 3 August
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Australia	4 April – 15 April
XXII	2022	TBA	TBA

Notes

¹Includes 3 team sports ²Includes 4 team sports ³Includes 3 team sports

Total Commonwealth Games by country[link]

Rank	Country	Region	Editions hosted
1	Australia	Oceania	5 (1938, 1962, 1982, 2006, 2018)
2	Canada	Americas	4 (1930, 1954, 1978, 1994)
3	New Zealand	Oceania	3 (1950, 1974, 1990)
	Scotland	Europe	3 (1970, 1986, 2014)
5	England	Europe	2 (1934, 2002)
6	India	Asia	1 (2010)
	Malaysia	Asia	1 (1998)
	Jamaica	Caribbean	1 (1966)
	Wales	Europe	1 (1958)

Approved sports[link]

There are a total of 21 sports (with two multi-disciplinary sports) and a further seven para-sports which are approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation. They are categorised into three types. Core sports must be included on each programme. A number of optional sports may be picked by the host nation, which may include some team sports such as basketball. Recognised sports are sports which have been approved by the CGF but which are deemed to need expansion; host nations may not pick these sports for their programme until the CGF's requirements are fulfilled.^[9]

Participation[link]

Nations/dependencies that have competed[link]

Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Australia has been the highest scoring team for eleven games, England for seven and Canada for one.

Notes:

1. ^ Aden became South Arabia which left the Commonwealth in 1968.
2. ^ Became Guyana in 1966.
3. ^ Became Belize in 1973.
4. ^ Became Sri Lanka in 1972.
5. ^ Suspended from the Commonwealth and Games in 2009.^[12]
6. ^ Became Ghana in 1957.
7. ^ Left the Commonwealth when handed over to China in 1997.
8. ^ Ireland was represented as a team from the whole of Ireland in 1930, and from both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland in 1934. The Irish Free State became Ireland in 1937 (but also known by its name in Irish Éire), formally left the Commonwealth when it declared that it was a Republic on 1 January 1949.
9. ^ Competed from 1958–1962 as part of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
10. ^ Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore federated as Malaysia in 1963. Singapore left the federation in 1965.
11. ^ Joined Canada in 1949.
12. ^ Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia federated with Nyasaland from 1953 as Rhodesia and Nyasaland which lasted till 1963.
13. ^ Divided into Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia in 1953.
14. ^ Zanzibar and Tanganyika federated to form Tanzania in 1964.
15. ^ Withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003.

Commonwealth nations/dependencies/disputed territories yet to send teams[link]

Very few Commonwealth dependencies and nations have yet to take part:

• Tokelau was expected to take part in the 2010 Games in Delhi but did not do so.
• The Pitcairn Islands' tiny population (currently 50 to 60 people) would appear to prevent this British overseas territory from competing.
• The British Indian Ocean Territory currently has no permanent population although there is a sizeable population who were born in the BIOT but currently live in Mauritius and the United Kingdom and so would be eligible to compete on birth criteria.
• The lack of a permanent population would seem to prevent the British overseas territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory, the New Zealand territory of Ross Dependency and the Australian external territories of Australian Antarctic Territory, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral Sea Islands and Heard Island and McDonald Islands from competing.
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has made applications to the CGF to send teams.
• Other states, territories and territorial autonomies with native populations within the Commonwealth that may be eligible include Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Rodrigues, Nevis and Zanzibar.
• It is also conceivable that any future members of the Commonwealth such as applicants (for example Sudan and Yemen) may participate in future games. The Colony of Aden and Federation of South Arabia, precursors to modern Yemen, participated before in 1962 and in 1966. Sudan was an Anglo-Egyptian protectorate until independence in 1956.
• South Sudan likely to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[13]
• Cornwall, represented by the Cornwall Commonwealth Games Association (CCGA), sent a bid for participation in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, however, their application was rejected by the CGF, who stated that the constitutional status of Cornwall was not an issue that should be resolved through this medium. However, in 2010, the CCGA sought to launch a legal challenge to the decision of the CGF, stating that the Cornish bid of 2006 fulfilled the entire criterion of the CGF, and by rejecting the bid, the CGF had violated their own code, failing to follow their own criteria for participation. The Cornwall team will therefore seek competition in the 2014 games.^[14]

Notable competitors[link]

Lawn bowler Willie Wood from Scotland is the first competitor to have competed in seven Commonwealth Games, from 1974 to 2002. Also, Greg Yelavich, a sports shooter from New Zealand, has won 12 medals in seven games from 1986 to 2010.

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Commonwealth Games

• All-time medal tally of Commonwealth Games
• All-Africa Games
• Asian Games
• Commonwealth Mountain and Ultradistance Running Championships
• Indian Empire Games
• Jeux de la Francophonie
• Kingdom Games
• Lusophony Games
• Olympic Games
• Pan American Games
• Universiade
• World Games

References[link]