The '
2006 Commonwealth Games' were held in
Melbourne,
Australia between
March 15 and
March 26 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the
1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing,
athletes competing, and events being held.
The site for the opening and closing ceremonies was the
Melbourne Cricket Ground which was also used during
Melbourne's 1956 Olympic Games.
The
mascot for the games was
Karak [1], a
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (a
threatened species).
For the first time ever, the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games appointed a Goodwill Partner,
Plan International Australia [2].
Sports
Main articles: Events at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games included 16 sports, with 12 individual sports and 4 team sports. In total there are 247 events at the Games.
Four of these sports are further broken down into separate disciplines, making a total of 24 disciplines:
★ Aquatics: diving, swimming, synchronised swimming.
★ Cycling: track, road, mountain bike.
★ Gymnastics: artistic, rhythmic.
★ Shooting: clay target, pistol, small bore and air rifle, full bore rifle.
The athletics, swimming, table tennis and weightlifting sports include fully integrated events for elite athletes with a disability (EAD). These events are included in the official medal tally.
Medals table
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Highlights
Opening Ceremony - 15 March
;
2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony: Both the
Melbourne Cricket Ground and the
Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included many fireworks, and other spectacle. The Games were opened by
Queen Elizabeth II, in her capacity as
Head of the Commonwealth. The Queen is also
Head of State of a number of Commonwealth countries, including Australia.
Day 1 - 16 March
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Cycling: England managed a clean sweep of the 4,000 m individual pursuit gold medal on the cycle track. Paul Manning beat fellow team mate Rob Hayles in the final. Steve Cummings won the bronze medal race. Australian
Ben Kersten manages to beat the World and Olympic champions in the 1 km time trial.
;
Swimming: Scotland's
Caitlin McClatchey beat Australia's
Libby Lenton in the Women's 200 m freestyle final, setting a new Games record of 1:57.25. England's Melanie Marshall came in third.
David Carry of Scotland has won the 400 m freestyle final, winning the second swimming gold for his country. Canadian
Andrew Hurd picked up the silver in 3:49.08 and David Davies from Wales came third.
Moss Burmester from New Zealand won gold in the 200 m butterfly in a new New Zealand and Commonwealth record time of 1:56.64.
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Weightlifting: The Games' first gold medal was awarded in the Womenโs Weightlifting (48 kg class) to Kunjarani Devi Nameirakpam from
India. Marilou Dozois-Prevost from
Canada won the silver, and Erika Yamazaki of
Australia picked up the bronze.
Day 2 - 17 March
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Cycling: Australians
Katherine Bates and
Rochelle Gilmore get gold and silver respectively in the Womenโs 25 km Points Race, repeating their
Manchester Games results. Their teammate
Alexis Rhodes took ninth place after being seriously injured in Germany in an accident that took the life of
Amy Gillett, in whose honour all three dedicated their ride.
;
Rugby Sevens:
New Zealand won the gold medal at the
Telstra Dome with a convincing 29-21 win over
England.
Fiji win the bronze medal with a 24-17 win over
Australia in a game marred by a serious injury to Australian player
Scott Fava.
;
Swimming: Australia gets all three medals in both the women's 50 m butterfly and women's 50 m breaststroke.
Day 3 - 18 March
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Swimming: Australia swept gold, silver, and bronze in both the women's 50 m breaststroke and the 50 m butterfly.
Leisel Jones and
Danni Miatke, respectively, won the golds.
;
Triathlon: Day 3 saw the Australians and New Zealanders completely dominate the triathlon event. After missing out on qualification for the 2004 Athens Olympics,
Emma Snowsill took the gold medal with a time of 1:58:02.59. New Zealand secured silver (
Samantha Warriner), bronze (Andrea Hewitt) and fourth place for the Women's event. Continuing Australia's dominance in the triathlon,
Brad Kahlefeldt won gold in the men's triathlon event with a time of 1:49:16. Australian
Peter Robertson was just beaten by New Zealander,
Bevan Docherty for silver, while Robertson took the bronze.
;
Cycling: Australian cyclist
Ryan Bayley won the men's sprint, his second gold medal for these Games.
Day 4 - 19 March
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Athletics: Australian
Kerryn McCann successfully defends her
2002 Commonwealth Games gold medal title by winning the women's marathon event with a time of 2:30:50.
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Athletics: Tanzania retained the men's marathon title, Samson Ramadhani taking the gold. Kenya's Fred Mogaka took silver, and England's Dan Robinson took the bronze.
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Cycling: The Isle Of Man won their first Commonwealth gold in 20 years, when
Mark Cavendish won the men's
Scratch Race final. Cavendish held off Australia's Ashley Hutchinson on the final bend to triumph, with Scotland's James McCallum claiming bronze.
;
Swimming: World champion Jessicah Schipper of Australia swam a Games record in beating team-mate Libby Lenton for the women's 100 m butterfly gold.
Day 5 - 20 March
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Athletics: Australian
Craig Mottram and crowd favourite, is edged out by
Augustine Choge in the men's 5000 m by 2 seconds. Choge won in a Games-record time of 12 min 56.41 s. At one stage during the race Mottram ran with 3 Kenyan racers in front of him and 3 Tanzanian racers behind him.
;
Athletics:
Asafa Powell, world record holder, wins the men's 100 m sprint in a time of 10.03 seconds, ahead of Nigeria's Soji Fasuba and the Trinidadian Marc Burns. His Jamaican compatriot,
Sheri-Ann Brooks won the women's 100 m in a personal best time of 11.19 s, ahead of South Africa's Geraldine Pillay and Delphine Antangana, of Cameroon.
;
Squash: The Grinham sisters (Australia) battled for the Gold medal. Natalie triumphed over Rachel 2-9 9-6 9-1 9-6.
Peter Nicol won his third Commonwealth Games gold medal. He previously won the singles title in 1998, and the doubles in 2002. He recaptured the singles title in four games, defeating Australia's David Palmer 9-5 10-8 4-9 9-2.
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Swimming: Scotland won two more gold medals in the pool, with Caitlin McClatchey and
Gregor Tait each winning their second titles in the 400 m freestyle and 200 m individual medley respectively. Australia's Leisel Jones set the first world record of the swimming competition, breaking her own record in the 100 m breaststroke with a time of 1:05.09.
Day 6 - 21 March
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Swimming: The Australian women's swimming team again asserted their dominance in the pool, breaking the 4 x 100 m medley relay world record in a time of 3:56.30, over a second faster than that set by the Australian women's swimming team in the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Australian women completed one of the most successful campaigns in games' history, finishing with 16 gold medals, just 3 short of the entire meet's offerings. The Australian men's swimming team finishes on a successful note, winning the 4 x 100 m medley relay. This was one of their least successful games meets with 3 gold medals.
;
Athletics: The Kenyan women finish with
Lucy Wangui (31:29.66) and
Evelyne Nganga (31:30.86) gold and silver respectively in the 10,000 m run. Wangui overtook Nganga in the final straight, after Nganga attempted to break away. Mara Yamauchi of England was third.
;
Athletics:
Dean Macey of England overcame injury to win his first major title in the men's Decathlon. Maurice Smith of Jamaica took silver and Australian Jason Dudley earned bronze.
Day 7 - 22 March
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Athletics: New Zealander
Valerie Vili won gold in the women's shot put, setting a new Commonwealth Games record of 19.66 metres.
Day 8 - 23 March
'
Athletics'
:Australian
Jana Pittman delighted the home crowd by retaining her 400 m hurdles title with Britons
Natasha Danvers-Smith (
England) and
Lee McConnell (
Scotland) picking up silver and bronze.
:Jamaica won gold and silver in the women's 200 m with
Sherone Simpson finishing ahead of
Veronica Campbell and South African
Geraldine Pillay in third.
'
Cycling'
:England's
Liam Killeen led an England one-two in the men's mountain bike cross country race. The 23-year-old eased home in two hours 13.11 minutes, ahead of team-mate
Oli Beckingsale.
'
Shooting'
:
India's
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won gold medal in Men's Double Trap.
Day 9 - 24 March
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Athletics: Australian
Nathan Deakes won the men's 50 km walk in a time of 3:42:53, beating the previous record set by him at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games by over 10 minutes. New Zealander Tony Sargisson took silver medal in 3:58:05 while Australia's Christopher Erickson took the bronze in 3:58:22.
;
Basketball: The Australian men's team beat New Zealand 81-76 to win the first gold medal in this sport at the Commonwealth Games. The
English men's team beat Nigeria 80-57 to take the bronze.
Day 10 - 25 March
;
Aquatics: Canadian
Blythe Hartley won the Women's 3 m Springboard final with 690.05 points. Australians
Chantelle Newbery and
Kathryn Blackshaw took silver and bronze repectively.
:Australian
Matthew Helm won the Men's 10 m Platform with 1085.60 points. Silver went to England's
Peter Waterfield with 1030.50 points and bronze went to Canadian
Alexandre Despatie with 1016.95 points.
;
Athletics: England's
Nicholas Nieland won the Men's Javelin with a season best throw of 80.10 m. Australians
William Hamlyn Harris and
Oliver Dziubak both threw 79.89 m with
William Hamlyn Harris securing silver on a countback throw of 79.48 on his final throw.
Oliver Dziubak took bronze on his countback throw of 78.43.
:
Nick Willis, gold medallist in the 1500 metres in a time of 3:38.49 mins, became the first athlete from
New Zealand to win a track medal for twenty-four years.
;
Boxing: England dominated the boxing finals day, with
Don Broadhurst,
Frankie Gavin,
James Russan,
David Price, and
Stephen Smith winning gold medals and
Darran Langley winning silver.
:Scotland's
Kenny Anderson won the Light Heavyweight gold after defeating his opponent,
Adura Olalehin, 23-19 after fighting back from 7-13 down after two rounds. During the fight, Olalehin had four points, the same as the margin of victory, awarded against himself for repeatedly holding Anderson.
Day 11 - Closing Ceremony - 26 March
;
Gymnastics: Canadian
Alexandra Orlando completed the rhythmic gymnastics competition having won six gold medals - a gold in every rhythmic gymnastics event - to become the fourth competitor to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.
;
Cycling: Australians
Natalie Bates and
Matthew Hayman win the women's and men's road races respectively.
;
Hockey: In the menโs final, the host nation beat Pakistan 3-0, after leading 1-0 before the break. In the bronze medal play-off, England lost to Malaysia 2-0.
;
Netball: New Zealand defeats Australia 60-55 in the gold medal match, to become the first country other than Australia to win Commonwealth Games gold in the sport.
;
2006 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony: Both the
Melbourne Cricket Ground and the
Yarra River were again centrepieces for the ceremony. The games were closed by
HRH .
Venues
The following venues were used at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The sport(s) which were played at that venue is listed after it.
Melbourne venues
A panoramic view of the interor of Telstra Dome
venue for Rugby 7s
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Docklands Precinct: Walks
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Melbourne Cricket Ground: Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and Athletics
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Melbourne Exhibition Centre: Badminton, Boxing and Weightlifting
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Melbourne Gun Club: Clay Target Shooting
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Melbourne International Shooting Club: Small Bore and Pistol Shooting
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Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre: Aquatics, Squash and Table tennis
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Multi Purpose Venue (Melbourne Park): Basketball Finals, Track Cycling and Netball Finals
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Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne Park): Gymnastics
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Royal Botanic Gardens Circuit: Cycling Road Race events
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St Kilda Foreshore and Beach Road: Triathlon and Cycling Time Trial
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Telstra Dome: Rugby 7s
Regional and suburban venues
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Ballarat:
Ballarat Minerdome: Basketball
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Bendigo:
Bendigo Stadium: Basketball
Wellsford Rifle Range: Full Bore Shooting
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Geelong:
Geelong Arena: Basketball
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Lysterfield Park:
State Mountain Bike Course: Mountain Bike Cycling
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Traralgon:
Traralgon Sports Stadium: Basketball
Impact on host nation
Early concerns arose about the large cost of staging the Games, with projected costs likely to be over 1 billion
Australian dollars and a high likelihood the Victorian taxpayer would have to cover the expense. The cost was described in some local media as excessive.
National Party leader
Peter Ryan said that the Labor government should win "gold (medal) for burning money"
[1] However, not all of this money was wasted. Prior to the Games, accountants at KPMG were estimating that the gross income generated by this event could be as high as 1.5 billion dollars.
Melbourne's premier sporting ground, the
Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), was redeveloped in preparation for the Games. An athlete's village in the inner suburb of
Parkville housed approximately 7,000 athletes and support staff during the Games, and has been transformed into commercial housing with a distinctly eco-friendly image. The creation of this village attracted controversy, with critics claiming it was created by alienating public parkland, while proponents maintained that it represented the renewal of an otherwise derelict inner-city area.
The change from
Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in Australian states that follow it was delayed from
March 26 to
April 2 for
2006 to avoid affecting the games. In addition, state and private schools amended their usual term times so as to allow the first term end-of-term holidays to coincide with the Games.
[2]
Melbourne's public transport system - train, tram and bus - ran to altered timetables with some amended or substituted services for the duration of the Games. For the most part, timetabled services were unchanged but suffered due to higher loads.
Broadcasting
★ The host broadcaster was
Trans World International, while the domestic rights-holding broadcaster was the
Nine Network in Australia. They showed rolling coverage, except for a break for the evening news and overnight.
★ In Australia
Fox Sports broadcast the Games on eight dedicated digital
Pay-TV channels. These were available on the
Foxtel,
Austar and
Optus Vision networks.
★ The
BBC covered the Commonwealth Games in the
UK on
BBC One and
BBC Two.
BBCi included a choice of two extra video streams on
Freeview and four streams on Digital
Satellite and
Cable [3]. Users with Broadband in the UK could also view all 5 video streams on
bbc.co.uk, and the BBC Sport website.
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CBC,
CBC Newsworld, and
CBC Country Canada aired a daily one-hour highlights show of the Commonwealth Games in
Canada. Compared to past games, the CBC's coverage was minimally staffed, with commentary from other broadcasting partners. At first, they did not even consider bidding for the broadcasting rights
[4] due to scheduling conflicts with events Canadians are more interested in, such as the
Tim Hortons Brier,
World Figure Skating Championships, and the
2006 Winter Paralympics ''(which itself had been reduced to five-to-ten minute daily coverage)''. None of Canada's metropolitan newspapers sent any journalists to report on the Games, instead relying on news agencies
★
TVNZ covered the games for the residents of
New Zealand
★ In
Malaysia,
TV1 broadcast live coverage of the Games for three hours starting at 10 a.m. Malaysian time and for two hours starting at 3 p.m., with highlights at 12:30 a.m..
Astro also included 3 dedicated channels to broadcast the Games live & delayed broadcast 24 hours to it Sports package subscribers.
★
Singapore's
MediaCorp TV had supposedly not broadcast the games due to the high cost of
telecast rights,
satellite charges and the lack of
sponsors. However, on
17 March, the MediaCorp found other sponsors which is the
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and the
Singapore Sports Council. Broadcast started from
March 18 till the end of the games.
[5]
★ In the
United States, selected coverage was carried by
Fox College Sports
Participating nations
Countries and places competing at the games
There were 71 countries, territories and bodies competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
[6]. The only difference between the countries competing at these games from the
2002 games is the absence of
Zimbabwe, which has now withdrawn from the
Commonwealth of Nations.
Missing athletes
[3]
On
20 March 2006 it was reported that two athletes had gone missing from the Commonwealth Games village:
Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and
Bangladeshi runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam.
[4]
On
22 March 2006 it was reported that seven athletes from
Sierra Leone (three women and four men) had also disappeared. A further seven Sierra Leonean athletes also went missing during the course of the Games, bringing the total runaway count to fourteen (two thirds of the team).
Victoria Police believed that they had fled to Sydney where the Sierra Leonean community is much larger than Melbourne's.
Two hours before the Closing Ceremony on
26 March, officials from the
Cameroon team reported to police that nine of their members had also vanished.
These incidents were not without precedence: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the
2002 Commonwealth Games in
Manchester,
England (21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one from
Pakistan), and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after the
2000 Summer Olympics in
Sydney.
[5]
On request of Sierra Leone officials, the Commonwealth Games Federation cancelled those athletes' Games accreditation, allowing the Australian
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) to cancel their visas at midnight on
27 March, and begin investigating their disappearance.
At 7.20am on that day,
New South Wales Police located six of the Sierra Leonean athletes in a house at
Harbord near
Manly Beach in
Sydney. All six indicated they wished to seek
political asylum in Australia, and were granted bridging visas by DIMA while their refugee applications were arranged. The athletes claimed to have been subjected to violence and torture in their home country; seventeen-year-old Isha Conteh stated she could be forced into
female circumcision if she returned.
[6] On Tuesday 28 March, six further Sierra Leoneans turned themselves in to immigration authorities in Sydney and were also granted bridging visas.
[7]
Two of the missing Cameroon athletes were found in
Perth, Western Australia.
References
1. http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Karak+the+Mascot/Karak+the+Mascot.htm
2. http://www.plan.org.au/contents/aboutus/GoodwillPartner.asp
3. Nine athletes vanish from Commonwealth Games
4. Mystery of missing athletes Ellen Whinnett
5. Athletes 'go missing from Games'
6. ABC
7. Visas for second group of athletes
External links
; Official websites
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Official website
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Official medal list
; Other sites
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Yahoo! Directory category
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Melbourne marathon 1956-2006
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BBC coverage of Commonwealth Games
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2006 Commonwealth Games - Australian Sports Commission
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Report on the Opening Ceremony - "Toronto Star", Canada
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CLEAN: - Website focusing on city preparation
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Canada at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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Sydneypinz - A Complete collection of pins used by the participating Nations at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
; Political opposition to the Games
★
The Graffiti games 2006 - Backlash over the
graffiti clean up in Melbourne before the games had even begun spawned its own website.
[7]
★
The Stolenwealth games - Website setup about the treatment of the
Indigenous Australian stolen generation.
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