Wales at the Commonwealth Games
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Wales are just one of six countries to have competed in all of the commonwealth games, since 1930. The others being Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and Scotland. The commonwealth games is the only major sporting event that they take part in, as in other events, such as the Olympics they compete under the banner of the United Kingdom.
Wales have hosted one commonwealth games to date, the 1958 Commonwealth Games, in Cardiff.
[edit] Overall Medal Tally
After the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Wales was ninth in the All-time tally of medals, with an overall total of 214 medals (47 Gold, 71 Silver and 96 Bronze).
The most Gold medals that Wales won in a Commonwealth Games was 10, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. The largest medal haul was at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, in Manchester, at which Wales won 31 medals including 6 Gold medals.
Figures represented in bold are the highest scoring medal tally for each individual medal.
| Year |  |
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Total | Position |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 13th |
| 2002 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 31 | 9th |
| 1998 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 10th |
| 1994 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 9th |
| 1990 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 25 | 6th |
| 1986 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 5th |
| 1982 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8th |
| 1978 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9th |
| 1974 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12th |
| 1970 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 12th |
| 1966 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11th |
| 1962 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13th |
| 1958 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 11th |
| 1954 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13th |
| 1950 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10th |
| 1938 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6th |
| 1934 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8th |
| 1930 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7th |
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