2006 Commonwealth Games

The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between 15 and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, since the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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, a Red-tailed Black Cockatoo.

Sports

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.

Medals table

2006 Commonwealth Games medal count
Pos	Country				Total
1	Australia	84	69	68	221
2	England	36	40	34	110
3	Canada	26	29	31	86
4	India India	22	17	11	50
5	South Africa	12	13	13	38
6	Scotland	11	7	11	29
7	Jamaica	10	4	8	22
8	Malaysia	7	12	10	29
9	New Zealand	6	12	13	31
10	Kenya	6	5	7	18
11	Singapore	5	6	7	18
12	Nigeria	4	6	7	17
13	Wales	3	5	11	19
14	Cyprus	3	1	2	6
15	Ghana	2	0	1	3
15	Uganda	2	0	1	3
17	Pakistan	1	3	1	5
18	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
19	Isle of Man	1	0	1	2
	Namibia	1	0	1	2
	Tanzania	1	0	1	2
22	Sri Lanka	1	0	0	1
23	Mauritius	0	3	0	3
24	Bahamas	0	2	0	2
24	Northern Ireland	0	2	0	2
26	Cameroon	0	1	2	3
27	Botswana	0	1	1	2
	Malta	0	1	1	2
	Nauru	0	1	1	2
30	Bangladesh	0	1	0	1
	Grenada	0	1	0	1
	Lesotho	0	1	0	1
33	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	3	3
34	Seychelles	0	0	2	2
35	Barbados	0	0	1	1
	Fiji	0	0	1	1
	Mozambique	0	0	1	1
	Samoa	0	0	1	1
	Swaziland	0	0	1	1
		245	244	254	743

Calendar

●	Opening ceremony	●	Event competitions	●	Event finals	●	Closing ceremony

March	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th
Ceremonies	●											●
Athletics					●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Badminton		●	●	●	●	●●●●●	●●●●●	●●●●●	●●●●●	●●●●●	●●●●●	●●●●●
Basketball		●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●
Boxing		●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●	●●	●●	●●
Cycling		●		●	●		●	●		●	●	●
Diving		●				●	●					●
Gymnastics		●	●	●●		●●●●●	●●●●●			●●	●	●●●●
Hockey		●	●	●	●	●
Lawn Bowls		●	●	●	●	●●	●●		●	●
Netball			●			●
Rugby Sevens		●	●
Shooting		●				●
Squash		●	●					●	●		●
Swimming		●	●	●	●	●	●
Synchronised Swimming			●	●			●	●
Table tennis			●	●			●	●
Triathlon			●	●			●	●
Weightlifting			●	●			●	●
March	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th

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

Docklands Precinct: Walks
Melbourne Cricket Ground: Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and Athletics
Melbourne Exhibition Centre: Badminton, Boxing and Weightlifting
Melbourne Gun Club: Clay Target Shooting
Melbourne International Shooting Club: Small Bore and Pistol Shooting
Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre: Aquatics, Squash and Table tennis
Multi Purpose Venue (Melbourne Park): Basketball Finals, Track Cycling and Netball Finals
Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne Park): Gymnastics
Royal Botanic Gardens Circuit: Cycling Road Race events
State Lawn Bowls Centre: Lawn Bowls
State Netball Hockey Centre: Netball and Hockey
St Kilda Foreshore and Beach Road: Triathlon and Cycling Time Trial
Telstra Dome: Rugby 7s

Other venues

Ballarat: Ballarat Minerdome: Basketball
Bendigo: Bendigo Stadium: Basketball
Wellsford Rifle Range: Full Bore Shooting
Geelong: Geelong Arena: Basketball
Lysterfield Park: State Mountain Bike Course: Mountain Bike Cycling
Traralgon: Traralgon Sports Stadium: Basketball

Other Notees

Melbourne's public transport system (Metlink) - train, tram and bus - had changed timetables for the Games.

Other websites

Official website