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New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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New Zealand competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, from 4 to 15 April 2018. It was the nations's 21st appearance at the Commonwealth Games, having competed at every Games since their inception in 1930. The New Zealand team consisted of 251 athletes, 130 men and 121 women, across 17 sports.

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The public source identifies “New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games” as sporting event delegation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zealand, Commonwealth and Games.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zealand, Commonwealth and Games providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.