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The success of the Games led to Glasgow hosting other major sporting competitions
and swimming. To be staged in the summer of 2018, it will see around 2900 athletes come to Scotland as part of a total delegation of around 8200, including officials, media and others. In July, the city also hosted the IPC Swimming
World Championships at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre. Te event is the biggest para-swimming event outside of the Paralympic Games and brings together more than 580 swimmers from nearly 70 countries. Spectators came to the event that saw 152
medals up for grabs across the seven days of the competition, with athletes competing in freestyle, breaststroke, buterfly, individual medley, freestyle relay and medley relay events with distances ranging from 50 to 400 metres. And in October the SSE Hydro will host the 46th World Gymnastic Championships, which will see gymnasts from around the world compete for prestigious world titles in what is a qualification event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Local and international spectators will be
drawn here for the four days of qualification events followed by six days of finals. Tere are hopes that Glasgow’s major
sports events hosting experiences will not end there. City representatives were at an event in July bidding for the European Indoor Athletics Championships to be held at the Emirates Arena in 2019. One of the other successes of the Games
was the Commonwealth Games Business Portal, an online business networking and matching service that featured hundreds of millions of pounds worth of business opportunities from its launch in October 2009 to the time of Games itself.
Reflections on the success of the portal and
the wider procurement strategy have influenced the Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal approach to business procurement. Te first procurement event for Tier 1
suppliers – large businesses that will be eligible for major contracts tendered through the City Deal – was held at the end of May. Stuart Patrick, Chief Executive of Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce, said: “Glasgow’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games has meant major benefits for the city economy and many businesses here. We are still awaiting to see whether it will mean a sustained increased in leisure tourism, adding to the city’s continuing remarkable performance in business tourism.”
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