 Squash | |
| First event | 1998  Kuala Lumpur |
|---|---|
| Occur every | four years |
| Last event | 2022  Birmingham |
Squash is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since 1998. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games.
| Games | Year | Host city | Host country | Best nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XVI | 1998 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia |  Australia |
| XVII | 2002 | Manchester | England |  New Zealand |
| XVIII | 2006 | Melbourne, Victoria |  Australia | Australia |
| XIX | 2010 | Delhi |  India |  England |
| XX | 2014 | Glasgow |  Scotland | Australia |
| XXI | 2018 | Gold Coast, Queensland | Australia | New Zealand |
| XXII | 2022 | Birmingham | England | New Zealand |
Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | 11 | 17 | 16 | 44 |
| 2 | Australia | 11 | 8 | 14 | 33 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 |  Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 |  India | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 |  Canada | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Scotland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 |  Wales | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 |  South Africa | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (9 entries) | 35 | 35 | 45 | 115 | |
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The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games, are 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 Games were 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 are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
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