See the full ranking list from the years , , , and Share: Facebook Twitter. The largest sporting event in the world is the Olympic Games , but there are many other multi-sport games. To see what's coming up, check out the calendar of major sporting events. Any comments, suggestions or corrections? The final day of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast saw New Zealand's men's and women's sevens teams each secure gold medals.
Joelle King continued her winning streak with gold in the women's doubles after already making New Zealand history winning the first ever individual squash gold medal earlier in the games.
Rugby Sevens women and beach volleyball had had their Commonwealth debuts, with a bronze on the beach seeing both new sports produce medals for New Zealand.
Dame Valerie Adams claimed her fifth Commonwealth Games Medal on day nine of competition with silver in the shot put adding to her silver at her first games in Manchester in and gold medals in Melbourne, Delhi and Glasgow. Jo Edwards won her third Commonwealth Games gold medal in lawn bowls at her fourth Commonwealth Games.
The women's hockey team finally made the top of the podium, with New Zealand's first hockey gold medal in any major games. David Nyika won the gold medal in the heavyweight boxing on the day ten of the Gold Coast games to go with his light heavyweight gold medal from Glasgow New Zealand's medal tally puts Gold Coast in third for a Commonwealth medal tally behind 58 in Auckland in and 54 also in Auckland in in addition to it being their best away from home games.
Wales equalled their record medal haul and golds won at previous Games with seven podium positions on Saturday. This took the tally to 36 medals, including 10 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze. The total medals match the highest Games haul in Glasgow in , when Wales only won five golds. The haul of 10 golds emulates the previous best in Auckland in but in those Games in New Zealand, Wales only returned with 25 medals.
So Wales can claim the Gold Coast Games have been their most successful. On Saturday, Jon Mould also celebrated silver in the men's road race, while there was also a boxing second spot for Rosie Eccles. There were bronze medals for cyclist Dani Rowe and para table tennis player Joshua Stacey. Price, who won the world kick-boxing title four times as a teenager and later represented Wales at football, was delighted with her victory after winning bronze in Glasgow four years ago.
She beat Australian Caitlin Parker on a split decision to win gold in the women's 75kg division. Lee, 19, celebrated a unanimous win over Samoan Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali in the men's 81kg final, only his third senior fight. England's Sandy Ryan beat Eccles in a split decision in the women's 69kg boxing final. Wales leave the Gold Coast with four boxing medals, one less than in though all five were bronze four years ago.
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