The 2018 Rugby League Commonwealth Championship was a

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tournament organised by the

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(RLIF) and played in the

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, Australia in February 2018. The event, featured eight men's teams, six women's teams and three physical disability teams, was one of the exhibition sports for the

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and was in support of the bid for rugby league nines to be a full medal event at the

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. The tournament was dominated by Australia, who won all three competitions.

Competing nations and pools

The 2014 tournament limited the men's competition to under-18 players. For this competition the upper age was increased to make the tournament an under-23 competition.

Fixtures

All the games were played at

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, home of Queensland rugby league side,

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, on 23 and 24 February. All the pool games in the men's and women's teams were played on 23 February with the play-offs and medal matches played on 24 February. In the physical disability tournament four match were played on the first day with two more and the gold medal match played on the second day. ''All times are Queensland local time, UTC+10:00.''

Women's tournament

Pool A

Pool B

Semi-finals and play-offs

Men's U23 tournament

Pool A

Pool B

Semi-finals and play-offs

Physical disabilities tournament

Pool stage

Play-off

Australia were declared the gold medalists due to having a better pool result.

Leading try-scorers

* Men's U23: Addison Demetriou (7) * Women's:

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, Kiritapu Demant,

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(4) * Physical disability: Mitchell Gleeson (2)

References

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