Hambantota 2018 was an unsuccessful bid to stage the 2018 Commonwealth Games by the city of Hambantota, Sri Lanka. The right to host the Games was won by the Gold Coast 2018 bid after a 43-27 vote by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly on 11 November 2011 in Saint Kitts.
Background The city made their surprise bid for the Games on March 31, 2010.2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES – BID PROCESS Hambantota planned on building many new venues if it won the bid, including an athletics stadium, an aquatic centre, a multi-sports complex, a velodrome stadium and a hockey stadium. The athletes village would have been located around the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, which would have been one of the venues. The remaining venues would have been built near the cricket stadium.Sri Lanka to build 20 key sporting venues for 2018 CWG Unlike the Gold Coast's plan, which include venues in the nearby cities of Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville, Hambantota's venues were all planned for the same area.Bligh outlines Commonwealth Games bid
Proposed venues VenueLocationSportsCapacityStatus Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium Hambantota Ceremonies Archery 60,000 2,500 Existing/Expansion International Aquatics Centre Hambantota Diving Swimming 2,500 5,000 New Athletics Stadium Hambantota Athletics Rugby sevens 40,000 New Exhibition Centre hall 1 Hambantota Badminton 2,500 New Exhibition Centre hall 2 Hambantota Netball preliminaries 2,500 New Exhibition Centre hall 3 Hambantota Weightlifting 2,500 New Multi-Sport Complex - boxing arena Hambantota Boxing 3,000 New Multi-Sport Complex - lawn bowls stadium Hambantota Lawn bowls 2,500 New Multi-Sport Complex - squash arena Hambantota Squash 3,000 New Multi-Sport Complex - table tennis arena Hambantota Table tennis 3,000 New Multi-Sport Complex - wrestling arena Hambantota Wrestling2,500 New Velodrome Hambantota Track cycling 4,000 New Main Arena Hambantota Gymnastics Netball finals5,000 New Hockey Stadium Hambantota Field hockey7,000 New Ranminithenna Shooting Range Hambantota District Shooting5,500 New Tissa Lake triathlon course Tissamaharama Road cycling Triathlon 1,000 2,000+ Temporary Marathon course Embilipitiya Athletics (marathon start) N/A Temporary
Proposed schedule
Hambantota proposed hosting the games between May 16 and 27, 2018. 17 sports and 228 events were planned to be contested if the bid was successful.Hambantota 2018 Bid book part 2 OCOpening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony May 16thWed17thThu18thFri19thSat20thSun21stMon22ndTue23rdWed24thThu25thFri26thSat27thSun Ceremonies OC CC ●●●2222 8 Athletics 15767711 44 Badminton ●●●●1●●●●32 6 Boxing ●●●●●●● 55 10 Cycling 3333 112 16 Diving 3232 10 Gymnastics 112 55114 20 Field hockey ●●●●●●●●●11 2 Lawn bowls ●●●●2●2●2 6 Netball ●●●●●●●●● 1 1 Rugby sevens ●1 1 Shooting 221213214 18 Squash ●●●●2●●●●●3 5 Swimming 5484107 38 Table tennis ●●●●2●●●122 7 Weightlifting 22222221 15 Wrestling 344334 21Total Gold Medals 11 15 22 14 30 25 24 15 21 26 25 228May 16thWed17thThu18thFri19thSat20thSun21stMon22ndTue23rdWed24thThu25thFri26thSat27thSunT
References
External links Hambantota 2018 Bid website Hambantota 2018 Candidate City File: Volume 1 Hambantota 2018 Candidate City File: Volume 2 Hambantota 2018 Block Plans