Gymnastics at the Commonwealth Games

Gymnastics is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games.

Artistic gymnastics was a core discipline of the Commonwealth Games between 2002 to 2022 and was required by the Commonwealth Games Federation to be included in each games' sporting program.[1] It was first held as a demonstration sport in 1974[2] before being included in the main programme in 1978. It has appeared at every games since 1990.

Rhythmic gymnastics is an optional discipline and may, or may not, be included in the sporting program of each edition of the Games. It has been included in every edition since its 1994 debut, except the 2002 Games.

Editions

Games Year Host city Host country Winner of the medal table Second in the medal table Third in the medal table
XI1978Edmonton Canada Canada England Australia
XIV1990Auckland New Zealand Canada Australia England
XV1994Victoria Canada Australia Canada England
XVI1998Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Australia Canada England
XVII2002Manchester England Australia Canada England
XVIII2006Melbourne Australia Canada Australia England
XIX2010Delhi India Australia England Cyprus
XX2014Glasgow Scotland England Canada Scotland
XXI2018Gold Coast Australia England Cyprus Canada
XXII2022Birmingham England England Australia Malaysia

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada585345156
2 Australia514852151
3 England454031116
4 Cyprus1151127
5 Malaysia5121431
6 Scotland33814
7 Wales210416
8 New Zealand20911
9 South Africa1348
10 Northern Ireland1102
11 India0123
 Singapore0123
Totals (12 entries)179177182538

Most successful Commonwealth Games gymnasts

The most successful gymnast in Commonwealth Games history is the Canadian rhythmic gymnast Alexandra Orlando. She is also the only gymnast to have won a clean sweep of every gold in her discipline - artistic or rhythmic - in a single Games since the introduction of individual apparatus to the Games.

The following gymnasts have won 4 or more gold medals at the Commonwealth Games:

NameDisciplineGoldSilverBronzeTotalNotes
1. Alexandra OrlandoRhythmic6006Most golds won at a single Games in any sport.
2. Nile WilsonArtistic5319Most successful male and artistic gymnast.
3. Curtis HibbertArtistic5117Most successful male gymnast in a single Games.
4= Kasumi TakahashiRhythmic5106
Erika Leigh StirtonRhythmic5106
6. Patricia BezzoubenkoRhythmic5016
7. Claudia FragapaneArtistic5005Most successful female artistic gymnast
8. Max WhitlockArtistic44210Most decorated gymnast
9. Lauren MitchellArtistic4307
10. Alan NoletArtistic4217
11. Lori StrongArtistic4206
12. Joshua JefferisArtistic4127
13=. Diamanto EuripidouRhythmic4116
Kyle ShewfeltArtistic4116
15=. Andrei KravtsovArtistic4105
Courtney TullochArtistic4105
17. Jake JarmanArtistic4004

Best results by event and nation

Australia is the only nation to have won a gold in every event currently in the gymnastics program; only in the rhythmic gymnastics discipline of Rope have they failed to do so, and the discipline was discontinued in 1994. Of the other two dominant nations in Commonwealth gymnastics, Canada have won gold in all rhythmic disciplines including rope, but no higher than silver on pommel horse, and England have won gold in all artistic gymnastic disciplines but only one gold in rhythmic gymnastics. Traditionally Scotland and Cyprus have been successful in artistic gymnastics, while Malaysia and Wales have found medals in rhythmic gymnastics.

Event  AUS  CAN  CYP  ENG  IND  MAS  NIR  NZL  RSA  SCO  SIN  WAL
M
A
G
Team
Individual All-Around
Floor Exercise
Pommel Horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel Bars
Horizontal Bar
W
A
G
Team
Individual All-Around
Vault
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise
R
G
Individual All-Around
Team
Hoop
Ball
Clubs
Ribbon
Rope

References

  1. "Constitutional Documents of the Commonwealth Games Federation" (PDF). thecgf.com. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. "Gymnastics Artistic History". thecgf.com. Retrieved 18 September 2021.


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