page_title: 1978 Commonwealth Games
section_title: Medals by country
hierarchical_section_title: 1978 Commonwealth Games / Medals by country
caption_attribution_description: Royal motorcade
context_page_description: The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec. They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest of New Zealand's sporting contacts with apartheid-era South Africa, as well as by Uganda, in protest of alleged Canadian hostility towards the government of Idi Amin. The Bid Election was held at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
  This was the first Commonwealth Games where a computerised system was used to handle ticket sales.
  These were the first Commonwealth Games to be named Commonwealth Games, having dropped British.
context_section_description:  Host nation (Canada)
caption: The Queen, Prince Philip, and their two younger sons, Andrew and Edward, at the opening of the 1978 Commonwealth Games, in Edmonton, Alberta
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