| 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games | |
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 Official logo | |
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City |
Edmonton, Canada |
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Venue |
Commonwealth Stadium |
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Date |
August 3-12 |
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Team Gold Medalist |
Canada
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All-Around Gold Medalist |
Elfi Schlegel (CAN) |
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Preceded by |
N/A |
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Succeeded by |
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The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest at New Zealand's sporting contacts with apartheid-era South Africa The Bid Election was held at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. This was the first Commonwealth Games where a computerized system was used to handle ticket sales.
Format of Competition[]
The gymnastics competition was carried out in two stages:
- Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
- Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
Results[]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Team |  Canada
Elfi Schlegel |
 England
Joanna Sime |
 New Zealand
Deborah Hurst |
| All-Around | Elfi Schlegel Canada (CAN) |
Monica Goermann Canada (CAN)
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N/A |
Medal Count[]
| Rank | Country | 
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Total |
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| 1 | Canada
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2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | England
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | New Zealand
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |