A move to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Gamesarchery and shooting competitions in India, six months before Birmingham hosts the rest of the Games, has been approved. The Commonwealth Games Federation announced that the competitions would take place in Chandigarh in January of that year. Birmingham 2022 will begin on 27 July 2022, five months after the Commonwealth championships in Chandigarh, and with a packed programme of 19 sports.
