Jan 172023
Sports at the Games in Australia

Australia has created many well-known sporting events and teams. Here are some of the list of sports they are involved in more sportively.

THE CURRENT COMMONWEALTH GAMES regulations require a minimum of ten and no more than fifteen sports must be included in a Commonwealth Games schedule. There is a list of core sports, which must be included, and a further list of approved sports from which the host nation chooses which to include. The host nation may also apply for the inclusion of other team sports to the CGF General Assembly, like the Melbourne organising committee did with Basketball for the 2006 Games.

 Games Index Page
 
 2014 – Glasgow
 2010 – Delhi
 2006 – Melbourne
2002 – Manchester
1998 – Kuala Lumpur
1994 – Victoria
1990 – Auckland
1986 – Edinburgh
1982 – Brisbane
1978 – Edmonton
1974 – Christchurch
1970 – Edinburgh
1966 – Kingston
1962 – Perth
1958 – Cardiff
1954 – Vancouver
1950 – Auckland
1946 – Cancelled
1942 – Cancelled
1938 – Sydney
1934 – London
1930 – Hamilton
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Current Required Core Sports
Athletics, aquatics (diving, swimming, synchronised swimming), lawn bowls, Women’s netball and Men’s rugby sevens. These will stay core sports until at least the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Approved List of Sports
Includes archery, badminton, billiards and snooker, boxing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, judo, rowing, shooting, squash, table tennis, tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, weightlifting, wrestling and sailing.

Additional Requirement
Games now must include some events for Elite Athletes with a Disability (EAD). This was introduced in the 2002 Games.

When Sports Appeared at the Games

The year listed below is the first time the event appeared at a Games.
Listed in bold are the original events from the first Game in 1930.

 Aquatics – swimming, diving
     synchronised swimming,
 
1930
 Archery1982
 Judo1990
 Athletics – men1930 Gymnastics – rhythmic1994
 Boxing1930 Cricket1998
 Lawn bowls1930 Field hockey1998
 Rowing1930 Netball1998
 Wresting, Freestyle1930 Rugby sevens1998
 Cycling1934 Squash1998
 Athletics – women1934 Ten-pin bowling1998
 Fencing1950 Athletes with a Disability Events – athletics,
    power lifting, swimming, table tennis
2002
 Weightlifting1950
 Badminton1966 Table tennis2002
 Shooting1966 Triathlon2002
 Gymnastics1978 Basketball2006

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