The Commonwealth Fencing Championships is a fencing event held in the Commonwealth of Nations. Following the removal of fencing as a core sport within the main Commonwealth Games, the first Commonwealth Fencing Championships were held in 1974 and they have been held in the same cycle as the Commonwealth Games ever since. The Championships are managed by Commonwealth Fencing Federation.
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Year | Location | Men's Individual | Women's Individual | Men's Team | Women's Team |
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2018 [2] | Canberra | Ben Peggs | Chloe Dickson | Australia | Scotland |
2014 [3] | Largs | Jamie Fitzgerald | Wenying Wang | England | Singapore |
2010 [4] | Melbourne | Frank Bartolillo | P Yuan | Australia | England |
2006 | Belfast | J. McGuire | M. Kwan | Canada | Canada |
2002 | Newcastle | Frank Bartolillo | Eloise Smith | Australia | England |
1998 | Shah Alam | D. McKenzie | Eloise Smith | England | England |
Year | Location | Men's Individual | Women's Individual | Men's Team | Women's Team |
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2018 [2] | Canberra | William Deary | Bhavani Devi | India | England |
2014 [3] | Largs | Alex Crutchett | Katherine Kempe | England | Scotland |
2010 [4] | Melbourne | Alex Crutchett | Joanna Hutchison | England | England |
Year | Location | Men's Individual | Women's Individual | Men's Team | Women's Team |
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2018 [2] | Canberra | Tommy C. Jones | Leonora Mackinnon | England | England |
2014 [3] | Largs | England Dudley Tredger | Singapore | Singapore | |
2010 [4] | Melbourne | Marc Burkhalter | Evelyn Halls | England | Australia |
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, have successively run every four years since. The event was called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they became the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
The Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) is an international multi-sport event organized by the Commonwealth Games Federation. The games were held in the years, mid-way between when the Commonwealth Games are held, until 2008. They continued to be held every four years, but in the year after the Commonwealth Games are held, from 2011 to 2015. Since 2017, they've been held in the year before the Commonwealth Games are held. The first edition was held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 10–14 August 2000. The age limitation of the athletes is from 14 to 18.
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