Overnight insights
- The New Zealand track cycling team picked up their 7th and 8th gold medals to finish the track cycling part of the games with 8/20 (40%) of the gold medals on offer, and 8/16 (50%) of the non-para events. (Australia also got 8 gold medals on the track to complete antipodean dominance).
- At the time of publishing (7am, Tuesday 2nd August, 2022), the New Zealand Team overall has 12 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze = a remarkably high 52% of medals being gold so far.
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Questions
- Which sports have too few medals? Which events should they include?
- Which sports have too many medals? Which events shouldn’t be there?
- Which sports are missing altogether?
- Should any sports be dropped?
- Which sports have great Paralympic programmes? Which ones don’t?
- Overall, do Paralympic athletes have enough event choice? (8/20 sports, 46/283 (16%) medal events, and 27 (59%) of those in athletics and swimming. No athletic jumping events.)
- Should we continue weight classes for some sports and not others? Should we have more weight classes?
- Are we ok with the number of events that are single-sex only at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, or where women do shorter distances?
- Athletics
- No women’s Decathlon and no men’s Heptathlon
- No women’s Para 100m T45-47 or Para 100m T11/12
- No men’s Para 100m T33/34 or Para Shot Put F55-57
- Men do 110m hurdles and women do 100m hurdles
- Swimming
- No women’s 1500m Freestyle and no men’s 800m Freestyle
- Various Para event differences, e.g. no women’s Para 100m Backstroke S9 and no men’s Para 100m Freestyle S9
- Boxing
- 10 weight classes for men. 6 for women.
- Cricket
- Women only. No men (likely hard with existing international men’s programmes, but they could have sent other players as happens in the Olympics with football.)
- Cycling
- Women’s individual pursuit is 3km. Men’s is 4km.
- Women’s point race is 25km. Men’s is 40km.
- Women’s time trial is 500m. Men’s is 1000m.
- Women’s Scratch Race is 10km. Men’s is 15km.
- Artistic gymnastics
- 8 medals for the men. 6 for the women
- Women don’t do Rings, Pommel Horse, or Parallel Bars.
- Men don’t do Balance Beam.
- Women have Uneven Bars. Men have one Horizontal Bar. (There are anatomical reasons for this decision).
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- 6 events for women. None for men.
- Netball
- Women only. No men.
- IN TOTAL
- 2 more medals for women than men
- Athletics
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Notes
- The graph shows medal events, not total medals. In other words, opportunities to win a gold medal, not gold + silver + bronze.
- From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Games
“The 2022 Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships was to be held as a separate event in Chandigarh, India in January 2022. The number of events held and the medals won in the championships would have been counted in the final number of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. However, the event has since been cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.” - All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.
Thank you to the Factors who helped pull this together.
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Sources
- https://resources.cwg-qbr.pulselive.com/qbr-commonwealth-games/document/2022/02/27/1af87793-ec43-4c44-905e-e7cc836e3b7b/B2022-CompetitionSchedule-Nov21-doc-6-.docx
- And crosschecked with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Commonwealth_Games, but that Wikipedia page has three mistakes, omitting three Paralympic relay races:
- Athletics – Para 4 x 100m Universal Relay
- Swimming – Para Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay S14
- Swimming – Para Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 34 Point
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