![]() ![]() Kelab Aman, Ampang – Cricket (Heats, Bronze playoff).Tenaga National Sports Complex – Cricket (Heats).Royal Military College, Sungai Besi – Cricket (Heats).Cheras Veledrome, Kuala Lumpur – Cycling (Track).Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium – Badminton.Titiwangsa Lake Gardens – Athletics (Race walking (outdoor)).Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur – Athletics (Marathon). ![]() National Lawn Bowls Centre – Lawn Bowls.National Aquatic Centre – Aquatics (Swimming, Diving, Synchronised swimming).National Stadium, Bukit Jalil – Opening/Closing Ceremony, Athletics (Track and field).Around 3638 athletes from 70 Commonwealth member nations participated at the games which featured 214 events in 15 sports with 34 of them collected medals. Malaysia was the eighth nation to host the Commonwealth Games after Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Jamaica and Scotland. ![]() The other bid from the 1998 games came from Adelaide in Australia. For the first time ever, the games included team sports. This was also the first time the games took place in a nation with a head of state other than the Head of the Commonwealth, and the first time the games were held in a country whose majority of the population did not have English as the first language. The 1998 games were the first held in an Asian country and the last Commonwealth Games of the 20th century. This edition is marked by several unprecedented facts in the history of the event. The 1998 Commonwealth Games ( Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998), officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games (Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16), was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ![]()
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