Nigeria at the Commonwealth Games

Nigeria at the
Commonwealth Games

CGF code

NGR

CGA

Nigeria Olympic Committee

Website

www.nigeriaolympiccommittee.org

Medals
Ranked 0th

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
0	0	0	0

Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)

British Empire Games
1950
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1954 1958 1962 1966
British Commonwealth Games
1970 1974
Commonwealth Games
1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

Nigeria has competed at thirteen Commonwealth Games, from 1950. Nigeria did not attend four Games, in 1962, 1978 (in protest at New Zealand's policies), 1986 and 1998.

Nigeria has won at least one medal at every Games attended, including a high of thirty-seven in 1994. The first medal in 1950 was won by Joshua Majekodunmi in the High Jump.

Medals

Total	61	66	85	212
Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1950 Auckland	0	1	0	1
1954 Vancouver	1	3	3	7
1958 Cardiff	0	1	1	2
1962 Perth	did not attend
1966 Kingston	3	4	3	10
1970 Edinburgh	2	0	0	2
1974 Christchurch	3	3	4	10
1978 Edmonton	did not attend
1982 Brisbane	5	0	8	13
1986 Edinburgh	did not attend
1990 Auckland	5	13	7	25
1994 Victoria	11	13	13	37
1998 Kuala Lumpur	did not attend
2002 Manchester	5	3	11	19
2006 Melbourne	4	6	7	17
2010 Delhi	11	8	14	33
2014 Glasgow	11	11	14	36

References

Official results by country

Nigeria at the Commonwealth Games

1950 1954 1958 1966 1970 1974 1982 1994 2002 2006 2010 2014

Nigeria did not compete in Games before 1950, in 1962, in 1978, in 1986, or in 1998

Associations at the Commonwealth Games

Current	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belize Bermuda Botswana British Virgin Islands Brunei Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Cook Islands Cyprus Dominica England Falkland Islands Fiji Ghana Gibraltar Grenada Guernsey Guyana India Isle of Man Jamaica Jersey Kenya Kiribati Lesotho Malawi Malaysia Malta Mauritius Montserrat Mozambique Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Ireland Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Scotland Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Swaziland Tanzania Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Vanuatu Wales Zambia

Historical	Aden The Gambia¹ Hong Kong Ireland Irish Free State Malaya Maldives² Newfoundland British North Borneo Sarawak South Arabia Zimbabwe

¹The Gambia withdrew from the Commonwealth in October 2013. ²The Maldives withdrew from the Commonwealth in October 2016.

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