2018 Commonwealth Games
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multi-sport event in Gold Coast, Australia
Key facts
- Host city
- Gold Coast , Australia
- Motto
- Share the Dream
- Nations
- 71 Commonwealth teams
- Athletes
- 4,426
- Events
- 275 in 18 sports
- Opening
- 4 April 2018
- Closing
- 15 April 2018
- Opened by
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Closed by
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- Athlete s oath
- Karen Murphy
- Queen s baton final runner
- Sally Pearson
- Main venue
- Carrara Stadium
- Website
- GC2018.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport had an equal number of events for male and female athletes.
4,426 athletes including 300 para-athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations took part in the event. The Gambia, which withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) in 2013, was readmitted on 31 March 2018 and participated in the event. With 275 sets of medals, the games featured 18 Commonwealth sports, including beach volleyball, para triathlon and women's rugby sevens. These sporting events took place at 14 venues in the host city, two venues in Brisbane and one venue each in Cairns and Townsville.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2018 Commonwealth Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.