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, the

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event were held in

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, BC,

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, at the

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on the grounds of the

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. A total of 44 events were contested, of which 22 by male 19 by female athletes. Furthermore, 2 men's disability events were held within the programme. There were 126 medals decided in total with

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topping the table with 36 medals in total.

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were second with 22 and the host nation

came third with 15. The competition saw both the rise and fall of

Horace Dove-Edwin Francis Horace Tipes Dove-Edwin (born 10 February 1967, in Freetown) is a retired Sierra Leonean Sprint (running), sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. Participating in the 1988 Summer Olympics, he failed to make it through to the second r ...

, a sprinter from

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. He became his country's first Commonwealth medallist with an unexpected

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behind

Linford Christie Linford Cicero Christie (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World ...

in the

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. He had not attended the opening ceremony as his country did not have enough money for a uniform and his story attracted much public sympathy and attention from the press. His meteoric rise (improving from 10.34 seconds to 10.02 over two days) was swiftly punctured as he was banned for two years after his doping test came back positive for the steroid

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Medal summary

Men

Men's EAD

Women

Medal table

Participation

References

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Commonwealth Games Medallists - Men
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1994 Commonwealth Games events