1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

The seventh British Empire and Commonwealth Games, an event that today under the name Commonwealth Games is known, were held from 22 November to 1 December 1962 in Perth , Australia .

Equaling the record number of 35 teams took part in 1958. Debuting teams were Aden, British Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia and Tanganyika. The previous participants North and South Rhodesia now jointly took part as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The states of Malaya, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak took this issue for the last time independent part. All previous countries participated missing Bermuda , India , Nigeria , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Sierra Leone . Even South Africa was missing due to the apartheid policy allowing the participation of South Africa was no longer desired, until 1994 South Africa returned.

Same nine sports as the editions of 1950, 1954 and 1958 were practiced. The opening ceremony and the athletics competitions took place in the play-built for this "Perry Lakes Stadium ', the swimming competitions in these play-built' Beatty Park.

Participating teams [ edit ]
Participating teams