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Commonwealth Games

LC control no.n 99282581
Descriptive conventionsrda
Meeting name headingCommonwealth Games
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Variant(s)Commonwealth Games Federation. Commonwealth Games
See alsoBritish Commonwealth Games
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Beginning date1978
Field of activitySports tournaments
Special noteSee also related access points for individual instances of this event which include specific information about the number, date, or place of the individual event
Found inAthletes at the games, 1998: t.p. (Commonwealth Games)
XIVth Commonwealth Games, 1990.
Britannica Micro. (Commonwealth Games, original name British Empire Games, from 1954 to 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, from 1970 to 1974 British Commonwealth Games)
Wikipedia website, 23 November 2012 (The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, it started in 1930 and was initially known as the British Empire Games and was renamed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970, before finally gaining its current title for the 1978 edition. The Games are overseen by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF))
Associated languageeng
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