1990 Commonwealth Games

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XIV Commonwealth Games

Host city	Auckland, New Zealand
Motto	This is the Moment (Māori: Ko te moma tenei)
Nations	55
Athletes	2,074
Events	213 events in 10 sports
Opening	24 January 1990
Closing	3 February 1990
Opened by	Prince Edward
Closed by	Elizabeth II
Queen's Baton Final Runner	Mark Todd and Peter Snell
Main venue	Mount Smart Stadium
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The 1990 Commonwealth Games (Māori: 1990 Taumāhekeheke Commonwealth) were held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January – 3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand's 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations. Participants competed in ten sports: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, judo, lawn bowls, shooting and weightlifting. Netball^[1] and the Triathlon were demonstration events.

The main venue was the Mount Smart Stadium.

The event was awarded to Auckland on 27 July 1984 at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Perth, Australia, had withdrawn from the bid contest leaving New Delhi, India, as the sole opponent to Auckland's bid. New Delhi lost the hosting rights to Auckland by a margin of 1 vote, which made it the closest host selection vote in the history of Commonwealth Games

1990 Commonwealth Games bidding results

City	Round 1
Auckland	20
New Delhi	19

The opening of the games comprised a variety of events, including the arrival of The Queen's representative Prince Edward (her youngest son), the arrival of the Queen's Baton, and many Māori ceremonial stories. The Queens Baton was carried across the Auckland Harbour by the vessel "Ceduna".

The opening ceremony itself started off with the Auckland Commonwealth Games Choir singing the Song of Welcome. Upon the arrival of Prince Edward, the Māori in attendance, gave him a Challenge of a welcome. This is conducted by a Māori placing a wooden baton on the ground. To see if the visitor comes in peace or not, the visitor must pick it up.

The New Zealand national anthem "God Defend New Zealand" was sung during a ceremonial fourteen gun salute from nearby One Tree Hill. This was followed by the New Zealand Army Guard Commander allowing Prince Edward to inspect the guard of honour. After which was the introduction of the participating countries of the Commonwealth, Scotland entering first as the hosts of the previous games, and New Zealand entering last as hosts. During the introduction of the countries, the choir would display the flag of the announced country with boards.

When all the athletes finally sat down, the main Māori ceremonies began. First of the Māori ceremonies was all the Māori women performing a "Song of Welcome" for the athletes with the use of Poi. The Māori women then gave some of the athletes a Hongi. Next was the Māori story of how New Zealand was formed according to legend; it a narration of how the Polynesians found their way to what was to become New Zealand, and how New Zealand was formed between Rangi and Papa, the sky father and earth mother. The story then moved on to the coming of religion and European migration. This was demonstrated with a formation of the Union Jack, to show the colonisation by the British. Dame Whina Cooper then made a speech about the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840 that brought about peace and stability of modern New Zealand.

Introduction of the European communities was next with music and native dancing from European countries such as Italy, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Wales and England, and music and native dancing also from Asian countries such as China, Sri Lanka and India. From here, many of the neighbouring Pacific Islanders made their entrance with the rhythmic tempo of the Pacific Island drum beat. This was to show the then complete migration of people to New Zealand.

Howard Morrison then lead New Zealand in singing the folk song Tukua-a-hau. After Morrison, the Queen's Baton arrived at the stadium where Prince Edward announced the opening of the games which was followed by the Athletes Pledge.

Fireworks followed and was capped off with a night time flyover by nine A-4 Skyhawk jets of the Royal New Zealand Air Forces 75 Squadron. The ceremony was concluded by the singing of the game's motto "This is the moment" as performers and athletes exited the stadium.

A more relaxed affair was held for the 14th Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, reflecting that of Christchurch in 1974. Attended by HM The Queen of New Zealand, formality and respect played their due part in the beginning with formal salute and the acceptance of the Commonwealth Games flag to the next host city, Victoria, Canada. This was followed by a First Nations and modern Canadian dancing display.

Next,thousands of children entered the stadium with a mass skipping rope demonstration, followed by the athletes. The Queen then made the traditional closing speech and called for all the Commonwealth's athletes to assemble in four years time in Victoria. As the evening wore on, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sang "Now is the Hour", a favourite New Zealand hymn, as the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s A4 Skyhawks made one final swooping flyover of Mount Smart Stadium followed by fireworks. The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Edward then exited the stadium standing in open top vehicles.

The mascot of the games was Goldie, representing New Zealand's national symbol the kiwi bird.

55 teams were represented at the 1990 Games.
(Teams competing for the first time are shown in bold).

Participating Commonwealth countries and territories
Australia  Bahamas  Bangladesh  Barbados  Bermuda  Botswana  British Virgin Islands  Brunei  Canada  Cayman Islands  Cook Islands  Cyprus  England  Falkland Islands  Ghana  Gibraltar  Guernsey  Guyana Hong Kong  India  Isle of Man  Jamaica  Jersey  Kenya  Lesotho  Malawi  Malaysia  Maldives  Malta Mauritius  Nauru  New Zealand (host)  Nigeria  Norfolk Island  Northern Ireland  Pakistan  Papua New Guinea  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Scotland  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Singapore  Solomon Islands  Sri Lanka  Swaziland  Tanzania  The Gambia  Tonga  Trinidad and Tobago  Uganda  Vanuatu  Wales  Western Samoa  Zambia  Zimbabwe
Debuting Commonwealth countries and territories
British Virgin Islands  Brunei  Nauru  Seychelles

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1990 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 the IOC, IAAF and BBC.

Figures from Commonwealth Games Foundation website.^[2]

  *   Host nation (New Zealand)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	52	54	56	162
2	England (ENG)	46	40	42	128
3	Canada (CAN)	35	41	37	113
4	New Zealand (NZL)*	17	14	27	58
5	India (IND)	13	8	11	32
6	Wales (WAL)	10	3	12	25
7	Kenya (KEN)	6	9	3	18
8	Nigeria (NGR)	5	13	7	25
9	Scotland (SCO)	5	7	10	22
10	Malaysia (MAS)	2	2	0	4
11	Jamaica (JAM)	2	0	2	4
	Uganda (UGA)	2	0	2	4
13	Northern Ireland (NIR)	1	3	5	9
14	Nauru (NRU)	1	2	0	3
15	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	1	3	5
16	Cyprus (CYP)	1	1	0	2
17	Bangladesh (BAN)	1	0	1	2
	Jersey (JEY)	1	0	1	2
19	Bermuda (BER)	1	0	0	1
	Guernsey (GUE)	1	0	0	1
	Papua New Guinea (PNG)	1	0	0	1
22	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	2	1	3
23	Ghana (GHA)	0	2	0	2
24	Tanzania (TAN)	0	1	2	3
25	Zambia (ZAM)	0	0	3	3
26	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	2	2
	Western Samoa (WSM)	0	0	2	2
28	Guyana (GUY)	0	0	1	1
	Malta (MLT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		204	203	231	638

• At these games, the Triathlon was a demonstration event; won by Erin Baker (women) and Rick Wells (men), both from New Zealand.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Light Flyweight	Justin Juuko (UGA)	Abdurahaman Ramadhani (KEN)	Domenic Figliomeni (CAN)  Dharmendar Yadav (IND)
Flyweight	Wayne McCullough (NIR)	Nokuthula Tshabangu (ZIM)	Born Siwakwi (ZAM)  Maurice Maina (KEN)
Bantamweight	Mohammed Sabo (NGR)	Geronimo Bie (CAN)	Justin Chikwanda (ZAM)  Wesley Christmas (GUY)
Featherweight	John Irwin (ENG)	Haji Ally (TAN)	David Gakuha (KEN)  James Nicolson (AUS)
Lightweight	Godfrey Nyakana (UGA)	Justin Rowsell (AUS)	Bakari Mambeya (TAN)  David Anderson (SCO)
Light Welterweight	Charlie Kane (SCO)	Nicodemus Odore (KEN)	Stefan Scriggins (AUS)  Duke Chinyadza (ZIM)
Welterweight	David Defiagbon (NGR)	Greg Johnson (CAN)	Anthony Mwamba (ZAM)  Grahame Cheney (AUS)
Light Middleweight	Richie Woodhall (ENG)	Ray Downey (CAN)	Sililo Figota (SAM)  Andy Creery (NZL)
Middleweight	Chris Johnson (CAN)	Joseph Laryea (GHA)	Charles Matata (UGA)  Mark Edwards (ENG)
Light Heavyweight	Joseph Akhasamba (KEN)	Dale Brown (CAN)	Nigel Anderson (NZL)  Abdu Kaddu (UGA)
Heavyweight	George Onyango (KEN)	Pat Jordan (CAN)	Kevin Onwuka (NGR)  Emerio Fainuulua (SAM)
Super Heavyweight	Michael Kenny (NZL)	Liadi Alhassan (GHA)	Vernon Linklater (CAN)  Paul Douglas (NIR)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Time Trial	Martin Vinnicombe (AUS)	00:01:06	Gary Anderson (NZL)	00:01:07	Jon Andrews (NZL)	00:01:07
Sprint	Gary Neiwand (AUS)		Curt Harnett (CAN)		Jon Andrews (NZL)
Individual Pursuit	Gary Anderson (NZL)	00:04:45	Mark Kingsland (AUS)	00:04:53	Darren Winter (AUS)	00:04:52
Team Pursuit	New Zealand Gary Anderson Nigel Donnelly Glenn McLeay Stuart Williams	00:04:23	Australia Brett Aitken Steve McGlede Shaun O'Brien Darren Winter	00:04:26	England Chris Boardman Simon Lillistone Bryan Steel Glen Sword	00:04:27
10 Miles Scratch	Gary Anderson (NZL)	00:19:44	Shaun O'Brien (AUS)	00:19:44	Steve McGlede (AUS)	00:19:44
Points Race	Robert Burns (AUS)	81	Craig Connell (NZL)	72	Alistair Irvine (NIR)	39
Women
Sprint	Louise Jones (WAL)		Julie Speight (AUS)		Sue Golder (NZL)
Individual Pursuit	Madonna Harris (NZL)	00:03:55	Kathy Watt (AUS)	00:03:55	Kelly-Ann Way (CAN)	00:04:00

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Road Race	Graeme Miller (NZL)	04:34:00	Brian Fowler (NZL)	04:34:00	Scott Goguen (CAN)	04:34:05
Team Time Trial	New Zealand Brian Fowler Gavin Stevens Graeme Miller Ian Richards	02:06:47	Canada Christopher Koberstein David Spears Peter Verhesen Sean Way	02:09:20	England Chris Boardman Peter Longbottom Ben Luckwell Wayne Randle	02:09:33
Women
Road Race	Kathryn Watt (AUS)	01:55:11.60	Lisa Brambani (ENG)	1:55:11.88	Kathleen Shannon (AUS)	1:55:12.06

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
All-Around	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	57.95	Alan Nolet (CAN)	57.8	James May (ENG)	57.4
Team	Canada Alan Nolet Claude Latendrese Curtis Hibbert Lorne Bobkin	171.8	England David Cox James May Neil Thomas Terence Bartlett	170.45	Australia Brennon Dowrick Kenneth Meredith Peter Hogan Tim Lees	169.5
Horizontal Bar	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)  Alan Nolet (CAN)	9.85			Brennon Dowrick (AUS)	9.8
Parallel Bars	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.8	Ken Meredith (AUS)	9.675	Peter Hogan (AUS)	9.6
Vault	James May (ENG)	9.625	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.575	Tim Lees (AUS)	9.25
Pommel Horse	Brennon Dowrick (AUS)	9.825	Tim Lees (AUS)	9.725	James May (ENG)	9.7
Rings	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.775	James May (ENG)	9.75	Ken Meredith (AUS)	9.725
Floor	Neil Thomas (ENG)	9.75	Alan Nolet (CAN)	9.675	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.6
Women
All-Around	Lori Strong (CAN)	38.912	Monique Allen (AUS)	38.687	Kylie Shadbolt (AUS)	38.499
Team	Canada Janet Morin Larissa Lowing Lori Strong Stella Umeh	116.784	Australia Kylie Shadbolt Lisa Read Michelle Telfer Monique Allen	115.272	England Lisa Elliott Lisa Grayson Lorna Mainwaring Louise Redding	114.046
Asymmetric Bars	Monique Allen (AUS)	9.875	Lori Strong (CAN)	9.85	Michelle Telfer (AUS)	9.737
Beam	Lori Strong (CAN)	9.85	Larissa Lowing (CAN)	9.762	Kylie Shadbolt (AUS)	9.7
Vault	Nikki Jenkins (NZL)	9.712	Lori Strong (CAN)	9.643	Monique Allen (AUS)	9.506
Floor	Lori Strong (CAN)	9.887	Larissa Lowing (CAN)	9.762	Kylie Shadbolt (AUS)	9.675

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women
All-Around	Mary Fuzesi (CAN)	37.65	Madonna Gimotea (CAN)	37.25	Angela Walker (NZL)	36.9
Ball	Madonna Gimotea (CAN)	9.45	Mary Fuzesi (CAN)	9.4	Angela Walker (NZL)	9.25
Hoop	Mary Fuzesi (CAN)	9.4	Madonna Gimotea (CAN)	9.2	Raewyn Jack (NZL)  Alitia Sands (ENG)  Viva Seifert (ENG)	9.1
Ribbon	Mary Fuzesi (CAN)	9.4	Madonna Gimotea (CAN)	9.3	Raewyn Jack (NZL)  Viva Seifert (ENG)  Angela Walker (NZL)	9.2
Rope	Angela Walker (NZL)	9.3	Madonna Gimotea (CAN)	9.275	Mary Fuzesi (CAN)	9.25

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men/Open
50m Free Pistol	Phil Adams (AUS)	554	Bengt Sandstrom (AUS)	549	Gilbert U (HKG)	549
50m Free Pistol - Pairs	Australia Phil Adams Bengt Sandström	1106	New Zealand Brian Read Greg Yelavich	1084	Bangladesh Ateequr Rahman Abdus Sattar	1078
25m Centre-Fire Pistol	Ashok Pandit (IND)	583	Surinder Marwah (IND)	577	Bruce Quick (AUS)	576
25m Centre-Fire Pistol - Pairs	Australia Phil Adams Bruce Quick	1155	New Zealand Barry O'Neale Greg Yelavich	1144	India Ashok Pandit Surinder Marwah	1142
25m Rapid-Fire Pistol	Adrian Breton (GGY)	583	Pat Murray (AUS)	582	Michael Jay (WAL)	579
25m Rapid-Fire Pistol - Pairs	Australia Bruce Favell Pat Murray	1153	Canada Stanley Wills Mark Howkins	1138	England Brian Girling John Rolfe	1133
10m Air Pistol	Bengt Sandström (AUS)	580	Phil Adams (AUS)	574	David Lowe (ENG)	574
10m Air Pistol - Pairs	Bangladesh Ateequr Rahman Abdus Sattar	1138	Australia Phil Adams Bengt Sandström	1138	New Zealand Julian Lawton Greg Yelavich	1137

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men/Open
50m Rifle Prone	Roger Harvey (NZL)	591	Stephen Petterson (NZL)	590	Philip Scanlan (ENG)	590
50m Rifle Prone - Pairs	New Zealand Stephen Petterson Roger Harvey	1185	Canada Barry Sutherland Michael Ashcroft	1184	England Bob Jarvis Philip Scanlan	1180
50m Rifle Three Positions	Mart Klepp (CAN)	1157	Malcolm Cooper (ENG)	1154	Soma Dutta (IND)	1143
50m Small Bore Rifle Three Positions - Pairs	Canada Jean-François Sénécal Mart Klepp	2272	England Malcolm Cooper Robert Smith	2268	Scotland William Murray Robert Law	2258
Full Bore Rifle	Colin Mallett (JER)	394	Andrew Tucker (ENG)	390	James Corbett (AUS)	390
Full Bore Rifle - Pairs	England Simon Belither Andrew Tucker	580	Australia James Corbett Barry Wood	565	Jersey Clifford Mallett Colin Mallett	564
10m Air Rifle	Guy Lorion (CAN)	583	Chris Hector (ENG)	578	Mart Klepp (CAN)	577
10m Air Rifle - Pairs	Canada Guy Lorion Mart Klepp	1163	England Chris Hector Robert Smith	1155	India Soma Dutta Bhagirath Samai	1148
10m Running Target	Colin Robertson (AUS)	539	John Maddison (ENG)	539	Tony Clarke (NZL)	535
10m Running Target - Pairs	New Zealand Paul Carmine Tony Clarke	1091	Canada David Lee Mark Bedlington	1070	England David Chapman John Maddison[3]	1064

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men/Open
Trap	John Maxwell (AUS)	184	Kevin Gill (ENG)	183	Ian Peel (ENG)	179
Trap - Pairs	England Kevin Gill Ian Peel	181	Wales Colin Evans James Birkett-Evans	178	Australia Russell Mark John Maxwell	178
Skeet	Ken Harman (ENG)	187	Georgios Sakellis (CYP)	187	Andy Austin (ENG)	184
Skeet - Pairs	Scotland Ian Marsden James Dunlop	189	England Andy Austin Ken Harman	185	New Zealand Tim Dodds John Woolley	183

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Flyweight - Snatch	Chandersekaran Raghavan (IND)	105	Velu Govindraj (IND)	95	Greg Hayman (AUS)	90
Flyweight - Clean and Jerk	Chandersekaran Raghavan (IND)	127.5	Greg Hayman (AUS)	117.5	Velu Govindraj (IND)	117.5
Flyweight - Overall	Chandersekaran Raghavan (IND)	232.5	Velu Govindraj (IND)	212.5	Greg Hayman (AUS)	207.5
Bantamweight - Snatch	Rangaswamy Punnuswamy (IND)	110	Alan Ogilvie (SCO)	107.5	Denis Aumais (CAN)	102.5
Bantamweight - Clean and Jerk	Rangaswamy Punnuswamy (IND)	137.5	Gopal Maruthachelam (IND)	125	Alan Ogilvie (SCO)	122.5
Bantamweight - Overall	Rangaswamy Punnuswamy (IND)	247.5	Alan Ogilvie (SCO)	230	Gopal Maruthachelam (IND)	227.5
Featherweight - Snatch	Marcus Stephen (NRU)	112.5	Parvesh Chander Sharma (IND)	112.5	Kumarasan Sudalaimani (IND)	110
Featherweight - Clean and Jerk	Parvesh Chander Sharma (IND)	145	Marcus Stephen (NRU)	142.5	Kumarasan Sudalaimani (IND)	142.5
Featherweight - Overall	Parvesh Chander Sharma (IND)	257.5	Marcus Stephen (NRU)	255	Kumarasan Sudalaimani (IND)	252.5
Lightweight - Snatch	Paramjit Sharma (IND)	130	Lawrence Iquaibom (NGR)	130	Mark Blair (AUS)	127.5
Lightweight - Clean and Jerk	Paramjit Sharma (IND)	165	Lawrence Iquaibom (NGR)	160	Mark Roach (WAL)	155
Lightweight - Overall	Paramjit Sharma (IND)	295	Lawrence Iquaibom (NGR)	290	Mark Roach (WAL)	280
Middleweight - Snatch	Karnadhar Mondal (IND)	135	Karl Jones (WAL)	135	Ron Laycock (AUS)	132.5
Middleweight - Clean and Jerk	Ron Laycock (AUS)	177.5	Karnadhar Mondal (IND)	170	Damian Brown (AUS)	167.5
Middleweight - Overall	Ron Laycock (AUS)	310	Karnadhar Mondal (IND)	305	Benoît Gagné (CAN)	292.5
Light Heavyweight - Snatch	David Morgan (WAL)	155	Muyiwa Odusanya (NGR)	152.5	Sylvain Leblanc (CAN)	145
Light Heavyweight - Clean and Jerk	David Morgan (WAL)	192.5	Soronomathu Ramaswamy (IND)	182.5	Muyiwa Odusanya (NGR)	180
Light Heavyweight - Overall	David Morgan (WAL)	347.5	Muyiwa Odusanya (NGR)	332.5	Andy Callard (ENG)	317.5
Middle Heavyweight - Snatch	Duncan Dawkins (ENG)	162.5	Keith Boxell (ENG)	152.5	Harvey Goodman (AUS)	150
Middle Heavyweight - Clean and Jerk	Duncan Dawkins (ENG)	195	Keith Boxell (ENG)	192.5	Harvey Goodman (AUS)	190
Middle Heavyweight - Overall	Duncan Dawkins (ENG)	357.5	Keith Boxell (ENG)	345	Harvey Goodman (AUS)	340
Sub Heavyweight - Snatch	Andrew Saxton (ENG)	165	Peter May (ENG)	145	Guy Greavette (CAN)	140
Sub Heavyweight - Clean and Jerk	Andrew Saxton (ENG)	197.5	Peter May (ENG)	175	Guy Greavette (CAN)	175
Sub Heavyweight - Overall	Andrew Saxton (ENG)	362.5	Peter May (ENG)	320	Guy Greavette (CAN)	315
Heavyweight - Snatch	Mark Thomas (ENG)	160	Jason Roberts (AUS)	152.5	Steve Wilson (WAL)	152.5
Heavyweight - Clean and Jerk	Mark Thomas (ENG)	197.5	Jason Roberts (AUS)	192.5	Aled Arnold (WAL)	187.5
Heavyweight - Overall	Mark Thomas (ENG)	357.5	Jason Roberts (AUS)	345	Aled Arnold (WAL)	335
Super Heavyweight - Snatch	Andrew Davies (WAL)	180	Aduche Ojadi (NGR)	177.5	Steven Kettner (AUS)	172.5
Super Heavyweight - Clean and Jerk	Andrew Davies (WAL)	222.5	Aduche Ojadi (NGR)	222.5	Steven Kettner (AUS)	205
Super Heavyweight - Overall	Andrew Davies (WAL)	402.5	Aduche Ojadi (NGR)	400	Steven Kettner (AUS)	377.5

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