Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Tournament information
Sport	Lawn bowls
Location	Various
Established	1930
Administrator	Commonwealth Games Federation

Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games; however, it was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available. Along with swimming, athletics, cycling, table tennis, powerlifting and triathlon, bowls is one of the EAD (Elite Athletes with a Disability) sports.

Editions

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Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best Nation
I	1930	Hamilton, Ontario	Canada	England
II	1934	London	England	England
III	1938	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	New Zealand
IV	1950	Auckland	New Zealand	New Zealand
V	1954	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Southern Rhodesia,  South Africa
VI	1958	Cardiff	Wales	South Africa
VII	1962	Perth, Western Australia	Australia	England
IX	1970	Edinburgh	Scotland	England
X	1974	Christchurch	New Zealand	England
XI	1978	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada	Hong Kong
XII	1982	Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	Scotland
XIII	1986	Edinburgh	Scotland	Wales
XIV	1990	Auckland	New Zealand	Australia
XV	1994	Victoria, British Columbia	Canada	Scotland
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	South Africa
XVII	2002	Manchester	England	England
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia
XIX	2010	Delhi	India	South Africa
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	South Africa
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia	Australia
XXII	2022	Birmingham	England	Australia

Commonwealth champions

Commonwealth champions tabulated:^[2]

Men's singles

Men's pairs

Men's triples

Men's fours

Women's singles

Women's pairs

Women's triples

Women's fours

Para-sport

All-time Overall medal table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Overall table including All time Para-Lawn bowl medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	21	11	23	55
2	Scotland	18	10	13	41
3	Australia	17	25	11	53
4	South Africa	17	12	15	44
5	New Zealand	16	12	18	46
6	Wales	5	11	15	31
7	Northern Ireland	5	5	12	22
8	Malaysia	4	5	7	16
9	Hong Kong	3	2	4	9
10	Zimbabwe	3	1	2	6
11	India	1	1	0	2
	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
13	Canada	0	10	3	13
14	Guernsey	0	2	0	2
15	Zambia	0	1	1	2
16	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
18	Rhodesia and Nyasaland	0	0	4	4
19	Fiji	0	0	2	2
	Norfolk Island	0	0	2	2
21	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
	Malta	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		111	111	135	357

Lawn Bowls All-Time Medal Table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	20	11	19	50
2	Australia	15	22	9	46
3	South Africa	15	11	13	39
4	New Zealand	15	10	17	42
5	Scotland	13	9	11	33
6	Wales	5	8	14	27
7	Northern Ireland	5	5	12	22
8	Malaysia	4	5	5	14
9	Hong Kong	3	2	2	7
10	Zimbabwe	3	0	2	5
11	India	1	1	0	2
	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
13	Canada	0	10	2	12
14	Guernsey	0	2	0	2
15	Zambia	0	1	1	2
16	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
18	Rhodesia and Nyasaland	0	0	4	4
19	Fiji	0	0	2	2
	Norfolk Island	0	0	2	2
21	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
	Malta	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		100	100	118	318

Para-Lawn Bowls All-time medal table

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Scotland	5	1	0	6
2	Australia	2	3	2	7
3	South Africa	2	1	2	5
4	New Zealand	1	2	1	4
5	England	1	0	4	5
6	Wales	0	3	1	4
7	Zimbabwe	0	1	0	1
8	Hong Kong	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
10	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		11	11	15	37

See also

• World Bowls Events
• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls

References

External links

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