Weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games

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.^[1] 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.

Editions

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	Cameroon
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia
XIX	2010	Delhi	India	Nigeria
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	Nigeria
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	57	50	46	153
2	England	42	45	23	110
3	India	38	46	31	115
4	Canada	28	28	40	96
5	Nigeria	20	22	20	62
6	New Zealand	11	12	16	39
7	Nauru	10	10	9	29
8	Cameroon	10	2	5	17
9	Wales	8	12	21	51
10	Malaysia	8	5	15	28
11	Singapore	4	1	3	8
12	Samoa	3	4	3	10
13	Scotland	2	5	9	16
14	Trinidad and Tobago	2	3	4	9
15	Malaya	2	3	2	7
16	Papua New Guinea	2	1	3	6
17	Pakistan	1	4	1	6
18	South Africa	1	3	4	8
19	Barbados	1	3	0	4
20	Sri Lanka	1	2	1	4
21	Cyprus	1	0	0	1
	Ghana	1	0	0	1
	Kiribati	1	0	0	1
24	Guyana	0	2	2	4
25	Seychelles	0	1	1	2
26	Kenya	0	0	4	4
27	Fiji	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	1	1
Total		264	264	263	791

Games records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Games	Place	Ref
–56 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
–62 kg
Snatch
Clean & Jerk
Total
–69 kg
Snatch
Clean & Jerk
Total
–77 kg
Snatch	149 kg	Sathish Sivalingam	India	27 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Clean and jerk
Total	328 kg	Sathish Sivalingam	India	27 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
–85 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
–94 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
–105 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
+105 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk	229 kg	George Kobaladze	Canada	31 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Total	400 kg	George Kobaladze	Canada	31 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Games	Place	Ref
-48 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
-53 kg
Snatch	85 kg	Chika Amalaha	Nigeria	25 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Clean and jerk	111 kg	Dika Toua	Papua New Guinea	25 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Total	193 kg	Dika Toua	Papua New Guinea	25 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
-58 kg
Snatch	93 kg	Michaela Breeze	Wales	26 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Clean and jerk	118 kg	Zoe Smith	England	26 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Total	210 kg	Zoe Smith	England	26 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
-63 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
-69 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total
-75 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk	140 kg	Marie-Ève Beauchemin-Nadeau	Canada	29 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
Total	250 kg	Marie-Ève Beauchemin-Nadeau	Canada	29 July 2014	2014 Games	Glasgow, Great Britain
+75 kg
Snatch
Clean and jerk
Total

External links

• Commonwealth Games sport index

References

1. "Weightlifting - Medals Tally by Games". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 21 October 2012.