Gymnastics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Northlands Coliseum
Location	Edmonton, Canada
Dates	3 to 12 August 1978
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Gymnastics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was the debut appearance of the Gymnastics at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Edmonton, Canada, from 3 to 12 August 1978 and featured four events. ^{[1] [2]}

Contents

• Medal table
• Medallists
• Results
• Men's individual all-around
• Men's team
• Women's individual all-around
• Women's team
• References

The gymnastics events were held at Northlands Coliseum. ^{[3] [4]}

Canada topped the gymnastics medal table by virtue of winning gold in all four events. ^[5]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	4	2	1	7
2	England	0	2	0	2
3	Australia	0	1	1	2
4	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	5	3	12

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's all-around	Philip Delesalle   Canada	Lindsay Nylund   Australia	Jean Choquette   Canada
Men's team	Jean Choquette Nigel Rothwell Owen Walstrom Philip Delesalle	Eddie Arnold Ian Neale Jeff Davis Tommy Wilson	Lambert Ariens Lindsay Nylund Rudolf Starosta Warwick Forbes
Women's all-around	Elfi Schlegel   Canada	Monica Goermann   Canada
		Sherry Hawco   Canada
Women's team	Elfi Schlegel Karen Kelsall Monica Goermann Sherry Hawco	Joanna Sime Karen Robb Lisa Jackman Susan Cheesebrough	Deborah Hurst Kirsty Durward Lynette Brake Rowena Davis

Results

Men's individual all-around

Pos	Athlete	Points
1	Philip Delesalle	56.40
2	Lindsay Nylund	54.95
3	Jean Choquette	54.25
4	Owen Carl Walstrom	53.90
5	Tommy Wilson	53.70
6	Terry Sale	53.45
7	Nigel Rothwell	53.25
8	Ian Neale	53.20
9	Eddie Arnold	52.90
10	Warwick Forbes	52.45
11	Jeff Davis	51.85
12	Lambert Ariens	51.60
13	Neil Christopher Davies	51.15
14	Gregory McBey Robertson	49.45
15	Rudolf Starosta	48.40
16	Hugh Richard Wilkins	47.70
17	Paul Preedy	46.70
18	Michael Joseph Higgins	42.90
19	Bishwe Shwar Nandi	42.85
20	Nemai Kanji	40.05

Men's team

Pos	Athlete	Pts
1	Canada	165.55
2	England	161.95
3	Australia	158.50
4	New Zealand	154.00
5	Wales	138.15
6	India	127.70
7	Bangladesh	27.80
8	Cyprus	18.25

Women's individual all-around

Pos	Athlete	Pts
1	Elfi Schlegel	38.250
2	Sherry Hawco	37.650
2	Monica Goermann	37.650
4	Karen Kelsall	37.550
5	Marina Sulicich	36.000
5	Susan Cheesebrough	36.000
5	Karen Robb	36.000
8	Deborah Hurst	35.950
9	Rowena Davis	35.900
10	Kirsty Durward	35.600
11	Joanna Sime	35.350
12	Karen Susan Edelsten	34.350
13	Karen Forbes	33.850
14	Margaret Jack	33.800
15	Linda Bernard	33.800
16	Linda Surringer	33.550
17	Lynette Brake	32.950
18	Jacqueline Vokes	32.950
19	Catriona Macaulay	32.850
20	Eileen Ramsay	32.700

Women's team

Pos	Athlete	Pts
1	Canada	113.250
2	England	107.400
3	New Zealand	106.350
4	Australia	103.450
5	Wales	101.200
6	Scotland	100.550
7	Hong Kong	79.000
8	Cyprus	28.300

References