Little impact on Games results?
NZPA Brisbane Sporting records indicate that the threatened, withdrawal of the 15 Black African nations from this year’s Brisbane Commonwealth Games would have little impact on the results. The 15 are demanding New Zealand be banned from the Games because of continued sporting links with South Africa. They are Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Since the Games started they have won a combined total of only 46 gold medals, all in athletics and boxing.
Australia has a total of 266
gold medals, behind England which heads the medal list with 284 wins.
Kenya has been the best performer from the Black African Commonwealth with a medal tally of 25 gold, 14 silver and 26 bronze including 20 athletic golds, mainly in distance events. Present Black African titleholders who won their events at Edmonton in 1978 are: Shahania- Gidemas (Tanzania), marathon, and the Kenyans, Mike Boit, 800 m, Henry Rono, 500 m and steeplechase, and the men’s 4 x 400 m relay. Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Sierra Leone and Gambia have yet to win any medal while Seychelles will be making its first Games appearance if it goes to Brisbane.
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