Commonwealth Games

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998

The Games were held between 11-21 September 1998
For the first time in the 68-year history of the Commonwealth Games, the host city was situated in Asia.
The XVI Games, they were held at Kuala Lumpur in the Malaysian state of Selangor.
Malaysia placed their own flavor on the Games, with the Queen’s Baton being carried into the stadium on an elephant. The baton was presented to Prince Edward by Malaysia’s first ever Commonwealth medal winner Koh Eng Tong, a bronze medallist in weightlifting in 1954.
A new record of 70 countries sent a total of 5,250 athletes and officials to the Kuala Lumpur Games.

Fifteen sports were featured in the Kuala Lumpur Games – aquatics, athletics, badminton, boxing, cricket, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, netball, lawn bowls, rugby 7s, shooting, tenpin bowling, weightlifting and wrestling.
In an attempt to modernize the Games, several team sports were included - such as cricket, rugby and netball and men’s and women’s field hockey. Up until this time, team sports had not been included in order to emphasize that the games were between individuals and not nations. The team sports were an overwhelming success that added large numbers to both participators and TV audience numbers.

The top five countries in the medal standing were Australia, England, Canada, Malaysia and South Africa. Nauru also achieved an impressive haul of three gold medals.

The following list includes the first four ranked teams. The ranking list for all years is available here.

Year	Country	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1998	Australia England Canada Malaysia	80 36 30 10	61 47 31 14	57 53 38 12	198 136 99 36