Weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games
Games Year Host city Host country Best nation
IV 1950 Auckland New Zealand Malaya
V 1954 Vancouver , British Columbia Canada Canada
VI 1958 Cardiff Wales Singapore
VII 1962 Perth , Western Australia Australia England
VIII 1966 Kingston Jamaica England
IX 1970 Edinburgh Scotland England
X 1974 Christchurch New Zealand Australia , England
XI 1978 Edmonton , Alberta Canada Australia
XII 1982 Brisbane , Queensland Australia England
XIII 1986 Edinburgh Scotland Australia
XIV 1990 Auckland New Zealand India
XV 1994 Victoria , British Columbia Canada Australia
XVI 1998 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Australia
XVII 2002 Manchester England India
XVIII 2006 Melbourne , Victoria Australia Australia
XIX 2010 Delhi India Nigeria
XX 2014 Glasgow Scotland Nigeria
XXI 2018 Gold Coast , Queensland Australia India
Editions
Weightlifting is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since 1950. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games. A total of 17 events were contested at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, 8 for men 7 for women and two powerlifting events. The first women's events were introduced in 2002. Between 1990 and 2002 a medal was awarded for each of the snatch and clean and jerk phases and for the combined total, offering as many as 46 gold medals in 2002. Since 2006 medals have only been awarded based on the combined total of both of these phases, as is the case at the Olympics. Since 2002 powerlifting events have been contested at the Commonwealth games and the sports results have counted under weightlifting ever since.