1982 Commonwealth Games#Boxing

Bidding for the XII Commonwealth Games was held in Montreal, Canada, at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. Lagos, Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, and Birmingham were the bidding cities. On 14 July 1976, it was announced that Brisbane had won the rights to stage the Games{{Cite book |title=Shaping a city |last=Cole |first=John R. |year=1984 |publisher=William Brooks Queensland |location=Albion, Queensland |isbn=0-85568-619-7 |pages=350–353}} after the other candidate cities withdrew bids. Sixteen years after the Brisbane Games, Kuala Lumpur hosted the 1998 Commonwealth Games, while Birmingham hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Brisbane was awarded the Games by default after being the only candidate city left at the bid election after Birmingham reversed its decision to submit an application. Nigeria's boycott of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal made Lagos' bid lobbying impractical.{{Cite web |last=Akinbode |first=Ayomide |date=2021-08-12 |title=Why Nigeria, 27 African Countries boycotted the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games – HistoryVille |url=https://www.thehistoryville.com/1976-montreal-olympic-games/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |language=en-US}} The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal were plagued with cost overruns, and bidding on a sports festival anywhere in the world was not good politically.{{Cite web |last=Silverberg |first=David |date=2016-08-04 |title=The Disastrous 1976 Montreal Olympics Should Have Taught Host Cities a Valuable Lesson |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-disastrous-1976-montreal-olympics-should-have-taught-host-cities-a-valuable-lesson/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Vice |language=en}}

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Forty-six Commonwealth nations and territories took part in the 1982 Commonwealth Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/PastGames/1982/CompetingCountries.htm |title=Australian Commonwealth Games Association |access-date=2006-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513045058/http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/PastGames/1982/CompetingCountries.htm |archive-date=13 May 2006 |df=dmy}} A total of 1,583 athletes and 571 officials participated in the event.{{Cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/could-the-gold-coast-ever-beat-brisbanes-games-20111110-1n9f6.html |title=Could the Gold Coast ever beat Brisbane's Games? |author=Phil Lutton |access-date=14 November 2011 |work=Brisbane Times |publisher=Fairfax Media}} The Griffith University student dormitories in the adjoining Nathan Campus were used as athletes' villages.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecgf.com/games/tally_country.asp|title=Past Commonwealth Games|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=25 September 2013}}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Sports contested during the 1982 Commonwealth Games included athletics, archery, badminton, lawn bowls, boxing, cycling, shooting, swimming, diving, weightlifting and wrestling.{{cite book |title=Brisbane 150 Stories |author=McBride, Frank|year=2009 |publisher=Brisbane City Council Publication |isbn=978-1-876091-60-6|pages=274–275|display-authors=etal}}

Table tennis and Australian rules football were demonstration sports,{{cite web | url = http://www.priu.gov.lk/ProvCouncils/ProvicialCouncils.html | title = Provincial Councils | work = The Official Website of the Government of Sri Lanka | date = 3 September 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090707214924/http://www.priu.gov.lk/ProvCouncils/ProvicialCouncils.html | archive-date = 7 July 2009 | df = dmy-all}} with the latter being demonstrated at a 6 October rematch at the Gabba of that year's VFL Grand Final, which took place just 11 days before at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Richmond won the demonstration rematch with a score of 28.16 (184) to Carlton's 26.10 (166).{{cite web |last1=Greenberg |first1=Tony |title=When the Tigers won Games gold |url=https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/269610/when-the-tigers-won-games-gold |website=RichmondFC.com.au |publisher=Richmond Football Club |date=4 April 2018|access-date=31 July 2022}}

Main Venues

• Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Sports Centre
• Chandler Sports Complex:
• Chandler Aquatic Centre – swimming and diving;
• Chandler Sports Hall – badminton and table tennis;
• Chandler Theatre – weightlifting; * Chandler Velodrome – track cycling
• Brisbane City Hall – wrestling
• Brisbane Festival Hall – boxing
• Belmont Rifle Range – shooting
• Moorooka Bowls Club – lawn bowls
• Murarrie Recreation Reserve – archery
• Bruce Highway – road cycling
• Brisbane River roads – marathon

Standalone Venues

• Wynnum and Manly roads – 30 km walk
• Woolloongabba Cricket Ground – Australian football demonstration
• Athletes Village – Griffith University and Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education.{{cite book|title=The XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, September 30 - October 9, 1982 : The Official History|date=1983|publisher=The XIIth Commonwealth Games Australia Foundation|location=Brisbane|isbn=0959220712}}

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The ceremony at the QEII Stadium was held on a fine but extremely windy day. The wind was so strong that skydivers who were going to descend into the stadium were cancelled. Instead they made an entrance at the closing ceremony.

File:Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Closing Ceremony of the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane.jpg

Elizabeth II closed the Games during a colourful ceremony, which included parachute jumpers (who had originally been also intended as part of the Opening Ceremony display) jumping and landing in a special target area within the stadium and red, white and blue balloons. Matilda the Kangaroo also winked at the Queen. Following the closing of the Games, the Queen and the Duke left the stand to be driven from the stadium. However, nobody wanted the Games to end and the Australian team formed a 'guard of honour' and ran beside and behind the car in which Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were travelling, as it circled the stadium several times before finally leaving.{{cite web |date=2011-11-11 |title=Could the Gold Coast ever beat Brisbane's Games? |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/could-the-gold-coast-ever-beat-brisbanes-games-20111110-1n9f6.html |access-date=2016-08-28 |website=Brisbanetimes.com.au}} Team members from other countries also joined in running after the royal car.

The first event of the Games was {{convert|100|km|mi}} Road Trial in cycling. England won the Gold Medal in the event, and Australia won the Silver Medal—coming second to England by only six seconds.

Other sports which were contested on the first day of competition included swimming and diving, weightlifting, shooting and bowls.

Sports contested included swimming, diving, weightlifting, shooting, cycling, bowls and archery.

The day was marred by both Australia and Canada being disqualified in the 4 × 100 metres relay in swimming, both problems occurring during change-overs. The medals awarded for this race went to England, Scotland and New Zealand.

Sports contested included swimming, diving, cycling, athletics, archery, hammer throwing and shooting.

The day was marred when Canada was again disqualified, this time in the 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay. Canada protested against the winners, Australia, as well as against their own disqualification.

The Brisbane Commonwealth Games were also noted by large-scale protests by the Aboriginal rights movement in Australia, which brought to the centre of international media attention the lack of Indigenous land rights in Australia, poor living condition and suppression of personal and political rights in Queensland in particular, and in Australia as a whole.Spencer Reiss with Carl Robinson, "Aborigines Vs. Queensland", Newsweek: International Edition, 11 October 1982, p. 13 One of the targets of the protests was Queensland's Aborigines Act 1971,{{youTube|28xFU5wHdrQ|Gary Foley -Aboriginal activist 1982}} which restricted and controlled the lives of Aboriginal people in Queensland.{{cite web | title=Community history | website=State Library Of Queensland | url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people/community-history | access-date=23 November 2022}}

There were large marches on 26 September (2,000 people), 20 September (1000), and a sit-in of 104 people on 4 October. Also on that day, around 20 spectators held Aboriginal flags in the stadium during the entire program. On 7 October, about 500 people attended another protest, and 400 police arrested 260 people, including then Governor-General's daughter, Ann Stephen.{{cite web | title=Commonwealth Games protested | website=Deadly Story | date=28 February 2018 | url=https://www.deadlystory.com/page/culture/history/Commonwealth_Games_protested/ | access-date=23 November 2022}} The protests were all peaceful, but police came out in force and blocked roads, making arrests under Queensland's Traffic Act.{{cite web| url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/aboriginal-protests-1982-games| format= video| author=Network Ten News| via= NFSA|date=October 1982| title=Aboriginal protests at the 1982 Games }}

Activists taking part in the protests included Gary Foley and Bob Weatherall (both leaders of the protest); Billy Craigie; Lyall Munro Jnr;{{cite web | title=Lyall Munro | website=Australian Museum | url=https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/lyall-munro/ | date=7 December 2021 |first=Laura| last=McBride| access-date=21 November 2022}} Ross Watson; Wayne Wharton;{{cite web | last=Latimore | first=Jack | title='The fight never left': Stolenwealth Games protesters draw on long tradition | website= The Guardian | date=8 April 2018 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/09/the-fight-never-left-stolenwealth-games-protesters-draw-on-long-tradition | access-date=23 November 2022}} and Selwyn Johnson and his family. Selwyn's brother Hedley Johnson was a musician, of the Brisbane group Mop and the Dropouts. Their song, "Brisbane Blacks", written by Mop Conlon, became a kind of anthem for the protests.{{cite web | last=Forde | first=Susan | title=Pulling down fences | website=Griffith Review | date=22 October 2019 | url=https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/pulling-down-fences-oral-history-lyall-munro-jr/ | access-date=21 November 2022| quote= Saturday, 12 August 2016, Moree, New South Wales.}}{{cite web | title=Mop & The Dropouts' 1982 anthem 'Brisbane Blacks' gave permanence to protest - Double J | website=Double J | date=2 June 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/mop-and-the-dropouts-brisbane-blacks-songs-of-reconciliation/13361712 | access-date=23 November 2022}}{{cite web | title=Brisbane Blacks | website=Workers BushTelegraph | date=3 October 2022 | first=Ian| last=Curr| url=https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2022/10/03/brisbane-blacks/ | access-date=23 November 2022}}

Bob Weatherall, a Kamilaroi elder, is a lifelong activist,{{cite web | title=Yarnin' Time with Uncle Bob Weatherall | website=State Library Of Queensland | date=13 November 2012 | url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/yarnin-time-uncle-bob-weatherall | access-date=23 November 2022}} a researcher in Aboriginal history,{{cite web | title="We've got to bring them home … to journey into the spirit world": Bob Weatherall and his lifelong struggle for the rights of the dead | website=ABC Religion & Ethics | date=6 July 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/religion/heidi-norman-bob-weatherall-weve-got-to-bring-them-home/13962068 | access-date=23 November 2022}} and musical collaborator with Brisbane band Halfway{{cite web | last=Comisari | first=Jerome | title=Bob Weatherall has a restless dream | website=ABC Radio National | date=25 September 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/bob-weatherall-has-a-restless-dream/13556402 | access-date=23 November 2022}}

The protests, which were followed by large-scale arrests, are a significant event in the history of the Australian Aboriginal rights movement.{{cite web|last1=Foley|first1=Gary|title=A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950–1990 |url=http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/pdf_files.html|website=Kooriweb| author-link=Gary Foley|access-date=12 October 2015}}{{cite web | title=Commonwealth Games (12th: 1982: Brisbane) - Event | website=The Australian Women's Register | date=27 August 2002| first=Clare| last=Land | url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0087b.htm | access-date=23 November 2022}}{{cite web | title=Great Moments in Indigenous History | first=Gary| last= Foley| author-link= Gary Foley| website= Kooriweb | url=http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/grt12v.html| format=photo | access-date=23 November 2022}} When the Commonwealth Games returned to Australia in 2018 at the Gold Coast, it drew a series of peaceful protests.

The classic Australian film [https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/we-fight-guniwaya-ngigu "Guniwaya Ngigu (We Fight)]" documents the Aboriginal protest movement during the Commonwealth Games, and was directed by Madeline McGrady and Tracey Moffatt, and produced by Maureen Watson, Tiga Bayles and Madeline McGrady.

In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the 1982 Commonwealth Games were announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "Defining Moment".{{Cite web|url=http://statements.qld.gov.au/statement/id/64301|title=PREMIER UNVEILS QUEENSLAND'S 150 ICONS|last=Bligh|first=Anna|author-link=Anna Bligh|date=10 June 2009|publisher=Queensland Government|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524033717/http://statements.qld.gov.au/statement/id/64301|archive-date=24 May 2017|access-date=24 May 2017}} Brisbane also bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics but lost to Barcelona. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on 9 December 2019 that the state will make an official bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics and Paralympics featuring venues across Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.{{Cite web|url=https://7news.com.au/sport/olympics/queensland-in-race-for-2032-olympics-after-state-government-confirms-bid-c-595962|title=Queensland government says 'yes' to bidding for 2032 Olympics|date=2019-12-09|website=7NEWS.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/queensland-2032-olympic-games-bid-explained/news-story/f13a9c1aef043e46d8590e0c002f7982|title=Australia's giant Olympic risk explained|date=2019-12-10|website=NewsComAu|access-date=2019-12-10}} In 2021, the city won the bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.{{Cite web |title=IOC elects Brisbane 2032 as Olympic and Paralympic host |url=https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-elects-brisbane-2032-as-olympic-and-paralympic-host |access-date=2024-08-30 |website=International Olympic Committee}}

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1982 Commonwealth Games. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC.

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{{Reflist}}

• "XII Commonwealth Games – The Official Pictorial History" —Channel 9 "Today Tonight", O & B Holdings Pty. Ltd., (1982)

• [https://www.commonwealthsport.com/commonwealth-games/brisbane-1982 "Brisbane 1982"]. Commonwealthsport.com. Commonwealth Sport.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070917163227/http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/Templates/Games_PastGames_1982.htm 1982 Commonwealth Games] – Australian Commonwealth Games Association official website
• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/tqqf2h/alma99183572119502061 The whole world is watching]- documentary on the Aboriginal Movement protests at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. State Library of Queensland
• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alma99183784791302061 People forming map of Australia Photographs] - State Library of Queensland
• [https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/143318436 John Leslie Protest Photographs of 1982 Commonwealth Games] - State Library of Queensland
• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/dls06p/alma9914715444702061 National black unity: rally & march: support land rights booklet] - State Library of Queensland

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