Falkland Islands at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

The Falkland Islands competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England between 28 July and 8 August 2022.^[1] It was their eleventh appearance at the Games.

Falkland Islands at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Flag of the Falkland Islands
CGF code	FLK
CGA	Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association
in Birmingham, England 28 July 2022 (2022-07-28) – 8 August 2022 (2022-08-08)
Competitors	16 (8 men and 8 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearers	Doug Clark Daphne Arthur-Almond
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Badminton athlete Doug Clark and lawn bowler Daphne Arthur-Almond were the country's opening ceremony flagbearers.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Badminton	4	5	9
Cycling	1	0	1
Lawn bowls	2	3	5
Table tennis	1	0	1
Total	8	8	16

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Nine players were officially selected as of 20 June 2022.^[4]

Singles

Athlete	Event	First Round	Second Round	Third Round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ben Chater	Men's singles	Caden Kakora (RSA) L (10–21, 8–21)	did not advance
Doug Clark		Ahmed Nibal (MDV) L (10–21, 11–21)	did not advance
Duane March		Callum Smith (SCO) L (3–21, 4–21)	did not advance
Vicky Chater	Women's singles	Ghazala Siddique (PAK) L (4–21, 3–21)	did not advance
Soraye March		Bye	Deidre Laurens Jordaan (RSA) L (12–21, 1–21)	did not advance
Louise Williams		Tamisha Williams (BAR) L (8–21, 10–21)	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	First Round	Second Round	Third Round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ben Chater Dwight Joshua	Men's doubles	—	Ahmed Nibal & Ajfan Rasheed (MDV) L (14–21, 11–21)	did not advance
Doug Clark Duane March		—	Tran Hoang Pham & Jack Yu (AUS) L (5–21, 7–21)	did not advance
Vicky Chater Cheryl March	Women's doubles	—	Prospera Nantuo & Cindy Tornyenyor (GHA) L (17–21, 20–22)	did not advance
Laura Harada Louise Williams		—	Julie MacPherson & Ciara Torrance (SCO) L (4–21, 5–21)	did not advance
Ben Chater Vicky Chater	Mixed doubles	Bye	Daniel Wanagaliya & Husina Kobugabe (UGA) L (13–21, 7–21)	did not advance
Doug Clark Cheryl March		Yingxiang Lin & Gronya Somerville (AUS) L (4–21, 3–21)	did not advance
Duane March Laura Harada		Samuel Ricketts & Tahlia Richardson (JAM) L (3–21, 4–21)	did not advance
Dwight Joshua Soraye March		Tran Hoang Pham & Angela Yu (AUS) L (2–21, 5–21)	did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

One cyclist was officially selected as of 23 June 2022.^[5]

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jim Horton	Road race	DNF
	Time trial	1:02:45.73	46

Lawn bowls

Main article: Lawn bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Four players were officially selected on 2 February 2022.^[6] A fifth player was added at a later date.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Chris Locke	Singles	McLean (SCO) L 5―21	Borgohain (IND) L 5-21	Davis (JEY) L 7-21	McIlroy (NZL) L 5―21	5	did not advance
Garry Tyrell Chris Locke	Pairs	Cook Islands (COK) L 12–23	India (IND) L 4–36	England (ENG) L 5–47	Malaysia (MAS) L 6–35	5	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Daphne Arthur-Almond	Singles	Daniels (WAL) L 2–21	Choudhury (IND) W 21–20	O'Neill (NIR) L 2–21	Hoggan (SCO) L 5–21	5	did not advance
Andrea Stanworth Daphne Arthur-Almond Trudi Clarke	Triples	Northern Ireland (NIR) L 10 - 22	Singapore (SGP) L 10 - 23	Australia (AUS) L 8 - 29	South Africa (RSA) L 14 - 20	5	did not advance

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification

The Falkland Islands accepted a Bipartite Invitation for the table tennis competition and selected Javier Sotomayor to compete.^[8]

Athletes	Event	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Javier Sotomayor	Men's singles	Cogill (RSA) L 0 - 4	Chambers (AUS) L 0 - 4	3	did not advance

References

1. "Chef de Mission | Falkland Islands". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. 8 October 2021. from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
2. Christie, Darnell (8 July 2022). "Falklands Flag Bearers for Commonwealth Games Revealed". www.fitv.co.fk. Falkland Islands Television. Retrieved 8 July 2022. Doug Clark from the Badminton team, and Daphne Arthur Almond from the lawn bowls team, will have the honour of carrying the flags on behalf of the Falkland Islands at the opening ceremony in Birmingham on the 28th July.
3. "Falkland Islands Commonwealth Games competitors receive their official kit". FITV. 7 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
4. "Badminton squad". Falkland Islands National Sports Council (Facebook). 20 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
5. "CYCLING". Falkland Islands National Sports Council (Facebook). 23 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
6. "Introducing... Your 2022 Commonwealth Games [...]". FITV (Facebook). 2 February 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
7. "LAWN BOWLS SQUAD". Falkland Islands National Sports Council (Facebook). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
8. "TABLE TENNIS". Falkland Islands National Sports Council (Facebook). 26 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.

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