1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games#Rowing

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The British Empire and Commonwealth Games, including the opening and closing ceremonies, were held at the Cardiff Arms Park in the centre of Cardiff. A new Wales Empire Pool was constructed for the event. The Sophia Gardens Pavilion was used for the boxing and wrestling events, and Maindy Stadium was used for track cycling. 178,000 tickets were eventually sold during the Games.{{cite book|editor-last=Williams|editor-first=Stewart|title=The Cardiff Book: Volume I|year=1973|chapter=Chapter 2: J.H.Morgan reviews fifty years of sport in Cardiff| publisher=Stewart Williams Publishers|isbn=0-900807-05-9|pages=35–36}}{{cite web|title=A brief history of Sophia Gardens|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/60136.html|publisher=ESPN|access-date=4 November 2014}} Rowing took place on Llyn Padarn in Llanberis.

File:Cardiff Arms Park and Millennium Stadium.jpg|Cardiff Arms Park

File:Llyn Padarn - geograph.org.uk - 394265.jpg|Llyn Padarn

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36 countries and territories{{cite web|title=1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games|url=http://www.thecgf.com/games/tally_country.asp?gameid=3034&participants=&categoryid=-1&countryid=&resultsid=&resultid=&sportid=&teamid=&athleteid=|work=thecgf.com/|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=3 August 2014|ref=1958 Commonwealth Games results table|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090301/http://www.thecgf.com/games/tally_country.asp?gameid=3034&participants=&categoryid=-1&countryid=&resultsid=&resultid=&sportid=&teamid=&athleteid=|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} were represented (and 1,100 athletes),{{cite news|last=Prior|first=Neil|title=Cardiff Empire Games 1958: A 'triumph' for Wales|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18882690|access-date=2013-04-05|work=BBC News|date=19 July 2012}} being the largest number to date, with a significant number of teams competing for the first time at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

At Cardiff Arms Park, an anti-apartheid crowd protested at the all-white South African team; games organisers responded that non-white South Africans were ineligible as their associations were not affiliated to the international federations.{{cite book |last=Ramsamy |first=Sam |editor=Fernand Landry |editor2=Marc Landry |editor3=Magdeleine Yerlès |title=Sport, the Third Millennium: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Quebec City, Canada, May 21-25, 1990 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5wrXP5xr3EC&pg=PA540 |access-date=17 June 2013 |year=1991 |publisher=Presses Université Laval |isbn=9782763772677 |pages=539–548: 540 |chapter=Apartheid and Olympism: on the Abolishment of Institutionalized Discrimination in International Sport}} South Africa left the Commonwealth in 1961 and next appeared at the Games in 1994.

Participating Commonwealth countries and territories:

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• {{flagicon|Australia}} Australia
• {{flagicon image|Flag of the Bahamas (1953–1964).svg}} Bahama Islands
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Barbados (1870–1966).svg}} Barbados
• {{flagicon image|Flag of British Guiana (1955–1966).svg}} British Guiana
• {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} Canada
• {{flag|Ceylon|1951}}
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Dominica (1955–1965).svg}} Dominica
• 23px England
• {{flagicon|Fiji|colonial}} Fiji
• 23px Ghana
• {{flag|Gibraltar|ensign1939}}: first appearance
• 23px Hong Kong
• {{flagicon|India}} India
• {{flag|Isle of Man}}: first appearance
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Jamaica (1957–1962).svg}} Jamaica
• {{flag|Jersey|old}}: first appearance
• 23px Kenya
• {{flagicon|Malaya}} Malaya
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Malta (1943).svg}} Malta: first appearance
• 23px Mauritius: first appearance
• {{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand
• 23px Nigeria
• {{flagicon image|Flag of North Borneo (1948–1963).svg}} North Borneo: first appearance
• {{flag|Northern Ireland}}
• {{flagdeco|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} Northern Rhodesia
• {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistan
• {{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|colonial}}: first appearance
• {{flagicon image|Flag of Sarawak (1947–1963).svg}} Sarawak: first appearance
• {{flag|Scotland}}
• {{flagicon|Singapore|colonial-1952}} Singapore: first appearance
• File:Flag of Sierra Leone 1916-1961.gif Sierra Leone: first appearance
• 23px South Africa
• {{flagdeco|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} Southern Rhodesia
• {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago|colonial}}
• 23px Uganda
• {{flagicon|Wales|1953}} Wales (host)

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{{Medals table

| caption = {{Screen reader-only|Medals won by nation, ranked by number of golds, with totals—sortable}}

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| gold_ENG = 29 | silver_ENG = 22 | bronze_ENG = 29

| gold_AUS = 27 | silver_AUS = 22 | bronze_AUS = 17

| gold_SAF = 13 | silver_SAF = 10 | bronze_SAF = 8 | name_SAF = {{flagteam|SAF|1928}}

| gold_SCO = 5 | silver_SCO = 5 | bronze_SCO = 3

| gold_NZL = 4 | silver_NZL = 6 | bronze_NZL = 9

| gold_JAM = 4 | silver_JAM = 2 | bronze_JAM = 1 | name_JAM = {{flagicon image|Flag of Jamaica (1957–1962).svg}} Jamaica (JAM)

| gold_PAK = 3 | silver_PAK = 5 | bronze_PAK = 2

| gold_IND = 2 | silver_IND = 1 | bronze_IND = 0

| gold_SIN = 2 | silver_SIN = 0 | bronze_SIN = 0 | name_SIN = {{flagteam|SIN|colonial-1952}}

| gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 10 | bronze_CAN = 16 | name_CAN = {{flagteam|CAN|1957}}

| gold_WAL = 1 | silver_WAL = 3 | bronze_WAL = 7 | host_WAL = yes | name_WAL = {{flagteam|WAL|1953}}

| gold_NIR = 1 | silver_NIR = 1 | bronze_NIR = 3

| gold_BAH = 1 | silver_BAH = 1 | bronze_BAH = 0 | name_BAH = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Bahamas (1953–1964).svg}} Bahama Islands (BAH)

| gold_BAR = 1 | silver_BAR = 1 | bronze_BAR = 0 | name_BAR = {{flagicon image|Flag of Barbados (1870–1966).svg}} Barbados (BAR)

| gold_MAL = 0 | silver_MAL = 2 | bronze_MAL = 0 | name_MAL = {{flaglink|Malaya|at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games}} (MAL)

| gold_NGR = 0 | silver_NGR = 1 | bronze_NGR = 1 | name_NGR = {{flagteam|NGR|colonial}}

| gold_BGU = 0 | silver_BGU = 1 | bronze_BGU = 0 | name_BGU = {{flagicon image|Flag of British Guiana (1955–1966).svg}} British Guiana (BGU)

| gold_UGA = 0 | silver_UGA = 1 | bronze_UGA = 0 | name_UGA = {{flagteam|UGA|colonial}}

| gold_SRH = 0 | silver_SRH = 0 | bronze_SRH = 2 | name_SRH = {{flagdeco|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} Southern Rhodesia (SRH)

| gold_KEN = 0 | silver_KEN = 0 | bronze_KEN = 2 | name_KEN = {{flagteam|KEN|colonial}}

| gold_TTO = 0 | silver_TTO = 0 | bronze_TTO = 2 | name_TTO = {{flagteam|TTO|colonial}}

| gold_GHA = 0 | silver_GHA = 0 | bronze_GHA = 1

| gold_IOM = 0 | silver_IOM = 0 | bronze_IOM = 1

| gold_NRH = 0 | silver_NRH = 0 | bronze_NRH = 1 | name_NRH = {{flagdeco|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} Northern Rhodesia (NRH)

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{{Main|Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games}}

{{Main|Lawn Bowls at the 1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games}}

Boxing Events (for men only) were at Sophia Gardens Pavilion, Cardiff.

|+ {{Screen reader-only|Medallists in men's boxing by weight division}}

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| Flyweight || {{flagathlete|Jackie Brown|SCO}}|| {{flagathlete|Tommy Bache|ENG}}||{{flagathlete|Peter Lavery|NIR}},
{{flagathlete|Donald Braithwaite|WAL|1953}}

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| Bantamweight|| {{flagathlete|Howard Winstone|WAL|1953}}|| {{flagathlete|Oliver "Frankie" Taylor|AUS}}||{{flagathlete|Olfred Owen|SCO}},
{{flagathlete|Richard Hanna|NIR}}

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| Featherweight|| {{flagathlete|Wally Taylor|AUS}}|| {{flagathlete|Malcolm Collins|WAL|1953}}||{{flagathlete|Gert Coetzee|SAF|1928}},
{{flagathlete|John McClory|NIR}}

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| Lightweight|| {{flagathlete|Dick McTaggart|SCO}}|| {{flagathlete|James Jordan|NIR}}||{{flagathlete|Johnny Cooke|ENG}},
{{flagathlete|Paddy Donovan|NZL}}

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| Light Welterweight|| {{flagathlete|Henry Loubscher|SAF|1928}}|| {{flagathlete|Robert Kane|SCO}}||{{flagathlete|Joey Jacobs|ENG}},
{{flagathlete|Raymond Galante|CAN|1957}}

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| Welterweight|| {{flagathlete|Joseph Greyling|SAF|1928}}|| {{flagathlete|Thomas Kawere|UGA|colonial}}||{{flagathlete|Robert Dickson Scott|SCO}},
{{flagathlete|Brian Nancurvis|WAL}}

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| Light Middleweight|| {{flagathlete|Grant Webster|SAF|1928}}|| {{flagathlete|Stuart Pearson|ENG}}||{{flagathlete|James Arthur Walters|CAN|1957}},
{{flagathlete|Bill Brown|WAL|1953}}

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| Middleweight|| {{flagathlete|Terry Milligan|NIR}}|| {{flagathlete|Philippus du Plessis|SAF|1928}}||{{flagathlete|Robert Piau|CAN|1957}},
{{flagathlete|Johnny Caiger|ENG}}

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| Light Heavyweight|| {{flagathlete|Tony Madigan|AUS}}|| {{flagathlete|Robert Higgins|WAL|1953}}||{{flagathlete|William Bannon|SCO}},
{{flagathlete|Gerhardus Jacobus De Bruyn|SAF|1928}}

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| Heavyweight|| {{flagathlete|Daniel Bekker|SAF|1928}}|| {{flagathlete|David Thomas|ENG}}||{{flagathlete|Roger Pleace|WAL|1953}},
{{flagathlete|Gbadegesin Salawu|NGR|colonial}}

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The track cycling events were held at the Maindy Stadium in Cardiff.

The rowing events were held on Llyn Padarn in Llanberis.

Swimming events were held at the Wales Empire Pool in Cardiff.

Diving events were held at the Wales Empire Pool in Cardiff.

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• [https://www.commonwealthsport.com/commonwealth-games/cardiff-1958 "Cardiff 1958"]. Commonwealthsport.com. Commonwealth Sport.
• [https://thecgf.com/results/games/3034 "Results and Medalists—1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games"]. Thecgf.com. Commonwealth Games Federation.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwPnvEf6as Pathe news: Commonwealth Games Cardiff 1958 reel 1]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjv3PrNftE Pathe news: Commonwealth Games Cardiff 1958 reel 2]

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