550 athletes participated in the first commonwealth games
There were 4104 athletes at the 1948 Games in London, 3714 men and 390 women.
The first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896. There were 14 nations who participated in 43 competitions with over 200 athletes participating.
Athletes per Country Competing in the Olympics11,028 athletes participated in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.2,629 athletes participated in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.Just a handful of countries send more than 100 athletes to the game. The United States sent 596 athletes to Beijing and 215 to Vancouver.When you consider all countries participating in the games (204 countries in Beijing and 82 in Vancouver), the large majority of them are small countries that only send 5 athletes or less. So calculating the average number of athletes sent by each country, you would get a small number.
Only the men did.
The first Commonwealth Games, known as the British Empire Games at the time, were held in Canada in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
6081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
6081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
6,081
India first participated in the Commonwealth Games at the 1934 London Games.
A total of 6,081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 4947 athletes competed in 261 events from 18 sports.
Fiji first participated at the Commonwealth Games in 1938.
India participated first time in 1934.
3,863 arhletes from 72 natuons oarticipated at the 2002 Commonweakth Games.
Some famous athletes that participated at the 2014 Commonwealth Games included Usain Bolt, Valerie Adams, Bradley Wiggins, Sally Pearson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Common Wealth Games is to have 85 paricipating nations and 8500 athletes overall
71 Commonwealth nations participated in 2010 commonwealth games.