1982 Commonwealth Games

12th Commonwealth Games
Host city	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Motto	The Friendly Games
Nations participating	46
Athletes participating	1,583
Events	141 events in 12 sports
Opening ceremony	30 September 1982
Closing ceremony	9 October 1982
Officially opened by	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Queen's Baton Final Runner	Raelene Boyle
Main venue	QEII Stadium

Opening ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. In this photo Matilda is seen as it goes around the stadium, winking to the crowd, 30 September 1982.

The 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 30 September–9 October 1982. The Opening Ceremony was held at the QEII Stadium (named for Elizabeth II), in the Brisbane suburb of Nathan. The QEII Stadium was also the venue which was used for the athletics and archery competitions during the Games.^[1] Other events were held at the purpose-built Sleeman Sports Complex in Chandler.

The Chairman of the 1982 Commonwealth Games was Sir Edward Williams.^[2]

The 1982 Commonwealth Games Logo was designed by Paulo Ferreira,^[3] who was the winner of a nationwide competition held in 1978. The symbol is derived from the form of a bounding kangaroo. The three bands, forming stylized A's (for Australia), are in colours which are common to flags of many Commonwealth countries.

Matilda the kangaroo mascot for the 1982 Commonwealth Games was represented by a cartoon kangaroo,^[4] and a gigantic 13-metre (42 feet 8 inches) high mechanical "winking" kangaroo, who travelled around the stadium and winked at the crowd.

The games were officially opened by The Duke of Edinburgh and closed by The Queen.

Participating teams

Countries and places which competed at the 1982 games

46 Commonwealth nations and territories took part in the 1982 Commonwealth Games.^[5] A total of 1,583 athletes and 571 officials participated in the event.^[6] The Griffith University campus was used as an athletes village.
(Teams competing for the first time are shown in bold).^[7]

Bidding Cities

Bidding for the XII Commonwealth Games was held in Montreal at the 1976 Summer Olympics: Lagos (Nigeria), Brisbane (Australia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Birmingham (England). On 14 July 1976 it was announced that Brisbane had won the rights to stage the Games^[8] after the other candidate cities withdrew bids earlier that year.

Brisbane was awarded by default of being the only Candidate City left at the bid election after Birmingham reversed its decision to submit an application.^[8] Nigeria's boycott of the Montreal Summer Olympics made Lagos' bid lobbying impractical.^{[citation needed]} The Montreal Summer Olympics were plagued with cost overruns and bidding on a sports festival anywhere in the world was not good politically.^{[citation needed]}

Sports

Sports contested during the 1982 Commonwealth Games included athletics, archery, badminton, Lawn bowls, boxing, cycling, shooting, swimming, diving, weightlifting and wrestling.^[9]

The Bruce Highway was used for road cycling events, boxing was held at Brisbane Festival Hall while weightlifting and wrestling were held at Brisbane City Hall.^[9]

Highlights

Opening Ceremony (30 September)

The ceremony at the QEII Stadium was held on a fine but extremely windy day. The wind was so strong that skydivers who were going to descend into the stadium were cancelled.^[6] Instead they made an entrance at the closing ceremony.

Day 1 (1 October)

The first event of the Games was 100 kilometres (62 mi) Road Trial in cycling. England won the Gold Medal in the event, and Australia won the Silver Medal—coming second to England by only six seconds.

Other sports which were contested on the first day of competition included swimming and diving, weightlifting, shooting and bowls.

Day 2 (2 October)

Sports contested included swimming, diving, weightlifting, shooting, cycling, bowls and archery.

The day was marred by both Australia and Canada being disqualified in the 4 × 100 metres relay in swimming, both problems occurring during change-overs. The medals awarded for this race went to England, Scotland and New Zealand.

Day 4 (4 October)

Sports contested included swimming, diving, cycling, athletics, archery, hammer throwing and shooting.

The day was marred when Canada was again disqualified, this time in the 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay. Canada protested against the winners, Australia, as well as against their own disqualification.

Closing Ceremony

Elizabeth II closed the Games during a colourful ceremony, which included parachute jumpers (who had originally been also intended as part of the Opening Ceremony display) jumping and landing in a special target area within the stadium and red, white and blue balloons. Matilda the Kangaroo also winked at the Queen. Following the closing of the Games, the Queen and Duke left the stand to be driven from the stadium. However, nobody wanted the Games to end and the Australian team formed a 'guard of honour' and ran beside and behind the car in which Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were travelling, as it circled the stadium several times before finally leaving.^[10] Team members from other countries also joined in running after the royal car.

Medals by country

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1982 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.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	39	39	29	107
2	England	38	38	32	108
3	Canada	26	23	33	82
4	Scotland	8	6	12	26
5	New Zealand	5	8	13	26
6	India	5	8	3	16
7	Nigeria	5	0	8	13
8	Wales	4	4	1	9
9	Kenya	4	2	4	10
10	Bahamas	2	2	2	6
11	Jamaica	2	1	1	4
12	Tanzania	1	2	2	5
13	Malaysia	1	0	1	2
14	Fiji	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	1	2
	Zimbabwe	1	0	0	1
17	Northern Ireland	0	3	3	6
18	Uganda	0	3	0	3
19	Zambia	0	1	5	6
20	Guernsey	0	1	1	2
21	Bermuda	0	0	1	1
	Singapore	0	0	1	1
	Swaziland	0	0	1	1
Total		143	141	153	437

Medals by event

Aquatics

Archery

Athletics

Badminton

Bowls

Boxing

Event		Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight	Men	Abraham Wachire (KEN)	John Lyon (ENG)	Lucky Siame (ZAM)
				Leonard Makhanya (SWZ)
Flyweight	Men	Michael Mutua (KEN)	Joseph Kelly (SCO)	Grant Richards (AUS)
				Albert Musankabala (ZAM)
Bantamweight	Men	Joe Orewa (NGR)	Roy Webb (NIR)	Ray Gilbody (ENG)
				Richard Reilly (AUS)
Featherweight	Men	Peter Konyegwachie (NGR)	Peter Hanlon (ENG)	Rodney Harberger (AUS)
				Winfred Kabunda (ZAM)
Lightweight	Men	Hussein Khalili (KEN)	James McDonnell (ENG)	Brian Tink (AUS)
				Steve Larrimore (BAH)
Light Welterweight	Men	Christopher Ossai (NGR)	Charles Owiso (KEN)	Clyde McIntosh (ENG)
				David Chibuye (ZAM)
Welterweight	Men	Chris Pyatt (ENG)	Laston Mukobe (ZAM)	Charles Nwokolo (NGR)
				Chenanda Machaiah (IND)
Light Middleweight	Men	Shawn O'Sullivan (CAN)	Nick Croombes (ENG)	Roland Omoruyi (NGR)
				Tommy Corr (NIR)
Middleweight	Men	Jimmy Price (ENG)	Douglas Sam (AUS)	Jeremiah Okoroduddu (NGR)
				Kevin McDermott (CAN)
Light Heavyweight	Men	Fine Sani (FIJ)	Jonathan Kirisa (UGA)	Kevin Barry (NZL)
				Joseph Poto (ZAM)
Heavyweight	Men	Willie DeWit (CAN)	Harold Hylton (ENG)	Willy Isangura (TAN)
				Mohammed Abdallah (KEN)

Cycling

Diving

Shooting

Pistol

Event		Gold		Silver		Bronze
Free Pistol	Men/Open	Tom Guinn (CAN)	553	Geoffrey Robinson (ENG)	543	Phil Adams (AUS)	540
Free Pistol - Pairs	Men/Open	Phil Adams & John Tremelling (AUS)	1077	Barrie Wickens & Rex Hamilton (NZL)	1075	Geoffrey Robinson & Frank Wyatt (ENG)	1074
Centre-Fire Pistol	Men/Open	John Cooke (ENG)	580	James Cairns (SCO)	579	Noel Ryan (AUS)	577
Centre-Fire Pistol - Pairs	Men/Open	Noel Ryan & Alexander Taransky (AUS)	1151	Mohinder Lal & Ashok Pandit (IND)	1138	John Cooke & John Gough (ENG)	1131
Rapid-Fire Pistol	Men/Open	Lee Kui Nang (HKG)	583	Jim Timmerman (CAN)	583	John Cooke (ENG)	582
Rapid-Fire Pistol - Pairs	Men/Open	Peter Heuke & Alexander Taransky (AUS)	1160	James Cairns & Hugh Hunter (SCO)	1152	Sharad Cahuran & Ramakrishnan Vij (IND)	1151
Air Pistol	Men/Open	George Darling (ENG)	576	Phil Adams (AUS)	573	Tom Guinn (CAN)	571
Air Pistol - Pairs	Men/Open	Phil Adams & Gregory Colber (AUS)	1128	Geoffrey Robinson & George Darling (ENG)	1126	Jim Timmerman & Tom Guinn (CAN)	1125

Rifle

Event		Gold		Silver		Bronze
Small Bore Rifle, Prone	Men/Open	Alan Smith (AUS)	1184	Malcolm Cooper (ENG)	1184	Bill Watkins (WAL)	1177
Small Bore Rifle, Prone - Pairs	Men/Open	Malcolm Cooper & Mike Sullivan (ENG)	1187	Colin Harris & Bill Watkins (WAL)	1183	Patrick Vamplew & Ernest Sopsich (CAN)	1180
Small Bore Rifle, Three Positions	Men/Open	Alister Allan (SCO)	1146	Malcolm Cooper (ENG)	1145	Guy Lorion (CAN)	1144
Small Bore Rifle, Three Positions - Pairs	Men/Open	Malcolm Cooper & Barry Dagger (ENG)	2301	Guy Lorion & Jean-François Sénécal (CAN)	2279	Alister Allan & Bill MacNeill (SCO)	2277
Full Bore Rifle	Men/Open	Arthur Clarke (SCO)	387	Lord John Swansea (WAL)	385	Charles Trotter (GGY)	384
Full Bore Rifle - Pairs	Men/Open	Keith Affleck & Geoffrey Ayling (AUS)	572	John Bloomfield & Dick Rowling (ENG)	570	David Calvert & Hazel Mackintosh (NIR)	563
Air Rifle	Men/Open	Jean-François Sénécal (CAN)	574	Matthew Guille (GGY)	572	Malcolm Cooper (ENG)	570
Air Rifle - Pairs	Men/Open	Alister Allan & Bill MacNeill (SCO)	1137	Malcolm Cooper & Barry Dagger (ENG)	1126	Norbert Jahn & Anton Wurfel (AUS)	1123

Shotgun

Event		Gold		Silver		Bronze
Trap	Men/Open	Peter Boden (ENG)	191	Terry Rumbel (AUS)	190	Peter Croft (ENG)	190
Trap - Pairs	Men/Open	Jim Ellis & Terry Rumbel (AUS)	190	Peter Croft & Peter Boden (ENG)	186	James Young & Martin Girvan (SCO)	183
Skeet	Men/Open	John Woolley (NZL)	197	Ian Hale (AUS)	196	Wally Sykes (ENG)	195
Skeet - Pairs	Men/Open	Brian Gabriel & Fred Altmann (CAN)	191	Jim Sheffield & Wally Sykes (ENG)	190	Alex Crikis & Ian Hale (AUS)	190

Swimming

Weightlifting

Event		Gold		Silver		Bronze
Flyweight - Overall	Men	Nick Voukelatos (AUS)	207.5	Grunadan Kambiah (IND)	200	Lawrence Tom (NGR)	192.5
Bantamweight - Overall	Men	Geoff Laws (ENG)	235	Bijar Kumar Satpathy (IND)	227.5	Lorenzo Orsini (AUS)	222.5
Featherweight - Overall	Men	Dean Willey (ENG)	267.5	Tamil Selvin (IND)	245	Chua Koon Siang (SIN)	242.5
Lightweight - Overall	Men	David Morgan (WAL)	295	Bill Stellios (AUS)	285	Patrick Bassey (NGR)	277.5
Middleweight - Overall	Men	Steve Pinsent (ENG)	312.5	Tony Pignone (AUS)	305	Jacques Demers (CAN)	302.5
Light Heavyweight - Overall	Men	Newton Burrowes (ENG)	325	Guy Greavette (CAN)	320	Cosmas Idioh (NGR)	317.5
Middle Heavyweight - Overall	Men	Robert Kabbas (AUS)	337.5	Peter Pinsent (ENG)	335	Mike Sabljak (AUS)	325
Sub Heavyweight - Overall	Men	Oliver Orok (NGR)	350	Gary Langford (ENG)	350	Kevin Roy (CAN)	340
Heavyweight - Overall	Men	John Burns (WAL)	347.5	Joe Kabalan (AUS)	325	Mario Leblanc (CAN)	315
Super Heavyweight - Overall	Men	Dean Lukin (AUS)	377.5	Bob Edmond (AUS)	347.5	Bassey Ironbar (NGR)	320

Wrestling

Event		Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight	Men	Ram Chander Sarang (IND)	Steve Reinsfield (NZL)	Maldwyn Cooper (CAN)
Flyweight	Men	Mahabir Singh (IND)	Ray Takahashi (CAN)	Ken Hoyt (AUS)
Bantamweight	Men	Brian Aspen (ENG)	Ashok Kumar (IND)	Chris Maddock (NZL)
Featherweight	Men	Bob Robinson (CAN)	Chris Brown (AUS)	Austin Atasie (NGR)
Lightweight	Men	Jagminder Singh (IND)	Zsigmund Kelevitz (AUS)	Lloyd Renken (CAN)
Welterweight	Men	Rajinder Singh (IND)	Ken Reinsfield (NZL)	Brian Renken (CAN)
Middleweight	Men	Chris Rinke (CAN)	Wally Koenig (AUS)	Jai Parkash Kangar (IND)
Light Heavyweight	Men	Clark Davis (CAN)	Kartar Singh (IND)	Nigel Sargeant (NZL)
Heavyweight	Men	Richard Deschatelets (CAN)	Satpal Singh (IND)	Murray Avery (AUS)
Super Heavyweight	Men	Wyatt Wishart (CAN)	Rajinder Singh (IND)	Albert Patrick (SCO)

Aboriginal movement protests

The Brisbane Commonwealth Games were also noted by large-scale protests by the Aboriginal rights movement in Australia, which brought to the centre of international media attention the lack of land rights, poor living condition and suppression of personal and political rights in Queensland in particular, and in Australia as a whole.^[12] The protests, which were followed by large-scale arrests, are a significant event in the history of the Australian Aboriginal movement.^[13]

Footnotes

↑ Information on QEII Stadium, the arena used for the games
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↑ Competing Countries 1982 List of nations that took part in the 1982 Games Archived 13 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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References

"XII Commonwealth Games - The Official Pictorial History" —Channel 9 "Today Tonight", O & B Holdings Pty. Ltd., (1982)

External links

Preceded by Edmonton	*Commonwealth Games* Brisbane XII Commonwealth Games	Succeeded by Edinburgh

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[4] Information on the mascot of the Games Archived 22 June 2005 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Competing Countries 1982 List of nations that took part in the 1982 Games Archived 13 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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