Cyclist Aaron Gate was named NZ team closing ceremony flagbearer. Photo: Photosport / Andrew Cornaga
More than 200 gold medals will be contested across 10 sports at the scaled-back Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The event programme has been released for the Games which were scaled back after organisers struggled to find a host.
Swimming, track cycling and Para sports will each boast more medallists than in any previous Games.
Athletics will have two new events, a mixed 4x400m relay and the Commonwealth Mile, which replaces the 1500m.
British runner Roger Bannister winning the mile race ahead of Australian competitor John Landy during the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. Photo: AFP
Last run in 1966, the Mile race, which will be run on the track, is a nod to the 'The Miracle Mile' at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada in 1954, when England's Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy - the only two sub-four-minute runners in the world at the time - went head to head only two months after Bannister became the first athlete to run a sub-four minute mile.
New Zealand's Murray Halberg finished fifth and Bill Baillie seventh in that race.
"The mile is the quintessential Commonwealth athletics event whose return I very much welcome," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who suggested the event to Glasgow organisers.
"From 1930 through to 1966, the mile was the blue-riband event of each Games and the magic of the mile continues to resonate.
"A ticket to watch its Commonwealth final will be one of the must-have seats in Glasgow next year."
Para sports will be fully integrated across six of the 10 disciplines, with a Games record of 47 medal events in total.
While the overall number of sports has halved from 20 in Birmingham in 2022 to combat rising hosting costs and time demands, the schedule remains intense.
A total 26 cycling golds will be fought for at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, with eight of those in Para-track cycling.
In swimming 56 golds will be on offer, with the men's 800m and women's 1500m freestyle races included for the first time.
The 10 sports on the schedule comprising:
- Artistic Gymnastics
- Athletics and Para Athletics
- 3x3 Basketball and 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball
- Boxing
- Swimming and Para Swimming
- Bowls and Para Bowls (indoor)
- Judo
- Netball
- Track and Para Track Cycling
- Weightlifting and Para Powerlifting
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