The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, officially known as the IV

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, and commonly known as Isle Of Man 2011, is a

multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of intern ...

which took place from 7 to 13 September 2011 in the British Crown Dependency of the

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. As per the original quadrennial cycle, the Games were scheduled for 2012. However, the

Commonwealth Games Federation The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), currently known as Commonwealth Sport, is the international organisation responsible for the direction and control of the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games, and is the governing body ...

at its general assembly in 2005 decided to move the Games within one year before the

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. The Bowl Stadium at the National Sports Centre,

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staged the opening ceremony on 7 September 2011. The closing ceremony was held on Douglas Promenade & the Villa Marina on 13 September.

Host city selection

The Isle of Man had unsuccessfully bid to host the

2008 Commonwealth Youth Games The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games (Hindi language, Hindi: 2008 कॉमनवेल्थ यूथ गेम्स), officially known as the III Commonwealth Youth Games, and commonly known as Pune 2008, a regional sporting event that was hel ...

, losing to the bid of India for

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Venues

In October 2008 the organising committee released a provisional events programme. All events were held between September 9 and 11, 2011 * National Sports Centre, Douglas - The athletics stadium staged all the athletics events. The swimming pool staged the

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

events and the main Sports Hall staged

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

. * The Bowl Stadium, Douglas -

Rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

. *The Villa Marina, Douglas -

Boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

. * Ellan Vannin Gymnastics Club -

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring Balance (ability), balance, Strength training, strength, Flexibility (anatomy), flexibility, agility, Motor coordination, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movem ...

(boys). * Manx Gymnastics Centre of Excellence -

(girls). *The start line for the 3 cycling races will be: TT Grandstand for the Road Race & Douglas Promenade for the

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& Time Trial.

Sports

The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games program featured seven sports, two fewer from previous Games in

. * * * * * * *

Participating nations

64 Commonwealth nations competed at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

was barred from the Games as it was suspended from the

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. Both

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island ( , ; ) is an States and territories of Australia, external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head, New South Wales, Evans Head and a ...

and

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

withdrew from the competition, as both Norfolk Island competitors were injured, and the latter cited other sporting commitments, followed by

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

and

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

for similar reasons.

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

and

Tuvalu Tuvalu ( ) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Van ...

were scheduled to compete at the Games, however they did not appear on the start lists.Competing athletes
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Schedule

Medal table

Country codes. ;Key:

References

External links

Isle of Man Government Infocentre announcement
* {{Nations at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Youth sport in the Isle of Man

Commonwealth Youth Games Multi-sport events in the Isle of Man International sports competitions hosted by the Isle of Man 2011 in youth sport