Opening Ceremony … 3 Aug 1978	Host City … Edmonton, Canada	Closing Ceremony … 12 Aug 1978
Participants … 1,475 athletes, 46 Commonwealth Nations

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24 Australian Gold Medal Winners

Athletics • Boxing • Cycling • Swimming • Weightlifting • Wrestling

This post is all about the gold medal winner of 1978 Commonwealth Games under the category Athletics, Boxing ,Cycling, Swimming. Wrestling, and weghtlifting.

ATHLETICS
Men’s Hammer	Peter Farmer
Men’s 400 Metres	Rick Mitchell
Women’s Shot	Gael Mulhall
Women’s 200 Metres	Denise Boyd (Robertson)
Women’s 800 Metres	Judy Peckham
Women’s High Jump	Katrina Gibbs
BOXING
Men’s Middleweight	Philip McElwaine
CYCLING
Men’s Sprint	Kenrick Tucker
Men’s Road Race	Phil Anderson
Men’s Team Pursuit	Colin Fitzgerald, Kevin Nichols, Gary Sutton, Shane Sutton
SWIMMING
Men’s 100 Metres Backstroke	Glenn Patching
Men’s 100 Metres Freestyle	Mark Morgan
Men’s 200 Metres Freestyle	Ron McKeon
Men’s 400 Metres Freestyle	Ron McKeon
Men’s 1500 Metres Freestyle	Max Metzker
Women’s 100 Metres Backstroke	Debra Forster
Women’s 200 Metres Butterfly	Michelle Ford
Women’s 400 Metres Freestyle	Tracey Wickham
Women’s 800 Metres Freestyle	Tracey Wickham
WEIGHTLIFTING
Men’s Lightweight – Overall	Bill Stellios
Men’s Middleweight – Overall	Sam Castiglione
Men’s Light Heavyweight – Overall	Robert Kabbas
WRESTLING
Men’s Light Flyweight	Ashok Kumar
Men’s Lightweight	Zsigmund Kelevitz