Talk:1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Proposed merge
See Talk:All-time medal tally of Commonwealth Games for discussion on this and other related merges. Kevin 05:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Venue?
What was the main venue for the openning and closing ceremonies and the athletics events? Kevlar67 23:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Records and other stuff
Were any records broken at the event?


 * Games Records set at the 1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games

Event Athlete / Team Result

Athletics
 * 220 Yard - Women 	Marlene Judith Mathews-Willard (AUS) 	23.6 sec
 * 440 Yard Hurdles - Men 	Gerhardus Cornelius Potgieter (RSA) 	49.7 sec
 * 80m Hurdles - Women 	Norma Claire Thrower (AUS) 	10.7 sec

Rowing
 * Single Scull - Men 	Stuart Alexander MacKenzie (AUS) 	7:20.1 mins


 * I found those on the commonwealth games site. EdwardLane (talk) 21:31, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Was it the (now demolished) Empire pool in cardiff that was the host for the swimming events? Yes ok it was EdwardLane (talk) 17:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)


 * taken me a little while to get back to looking at this but anyway this article certainly suggests that to be the case. EdwardLane (talk) 21:37, 8 April 2012 (UTC)