The 1990 Commonwealth Games was held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January – 3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand's 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations. Participants competed in ten sports: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, judo, lawn bowls, shooting and weightlifting. Netball and the Triathlon were demonstration events.
Queen's Baton's from the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 as the British Empire Games and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, has successively run every four years since. The event was called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. The event removed the word British from its title for the 1978 Games and has maintained its current name ever since.
Opening ceremony of the 1938 British Empire Games at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Statue in Vancouver commemorating the "Miracle Mile" between Roger Bannister and John Landy
3 pence British stamp with theme of 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Cardiff, Wales
Opening ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games at Brisbane, Australia