Gold Coast To Host 2018 Commonwealth Games

The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Gold Coast after the Australian city beat off the challenge of Sri Lanka's Hambantota. 

The decision was made at a meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation on the Caribbean island of St Kitts. Gold Coast, in south east Queensland, won by 43 votes to 27.

Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games four times previously in the event's 80-year history while Sri Lanka was bidding to host the games for the first time. The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to take place in April 2018.

Queensland's tourist strip will now become the fifth Australian city to host the Commonwealth Games after Sydney (1938), Perth (1962), Brisbane (1982) and Melbourne (2006).