Fiji - July 2022Fiji has won three gold medals in its Commonwealth Games history but titles in rugby sevens are what the country really wants.

titles ©Getty ImagesSorovaki will oversee a team of 64 athletes in Birmingham, with rugby joined by athletics

Cook Islands - March 2022Not everyone would enthusiastically celebrate a lawn bowls bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, but the Cook Islands certainly would.

which bodes well for the future.A team of 18 is planned in total - with athletes also set to travel in athletics

Cook Islands ©Getty ImagesThe main island of Rarotonga boasts the outdoor BCI Stadium, which has an athletics

Sri Lanka - July 2022To say that Sri Lanka's preparations for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have been rocky is something of an understatement. 

Sri Lanka is due to compete in 3x3 basketball, aquatics, athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing

will be part of a strong weightlifting team ©Getty ImagesSri Lanka could also spring a surprise on the athletics

Singapore - March 2022Lim Heem Wei knows only too well why the Commonwealth Games are nicknamed the "Friendly Games".

Singapore's team in Birmingham should exceed 50 athletes with confirmed sports so far including athletics

it wish to pursue doing so.Officials have already expressed interest in bidding for the 2025 World Athletics

Pakistan - July 2022You have to go all the way back to Edinburgh 1970 to find the last time Pakistan won more than two gold medals at a single edition of the Commonwealth Games.

significant number of people living in Birmingham who have Pakistani heritage.They will be competing in athletics

thrower Arshad Nadeem, who finished fifth at both the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and this month's World Athletics

Pakistan has a good chance of medals in wrestling, weightlifting, judo and athletics.

Maldives - February 2022Maldives are perhaps looking forward to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a little more than most.

2014 ©Getty ImagesMaldives are hoping to select 17 athletes for Birmingham 2022, in sports including athletics

aerial photographs of capital city Malé showing there is nowhere left to build.There are two synthetic athletics

Malaysia - January 2022Malaysia's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 is a rugby man, and clearly remembers his country going up against the might of New Zealand at their home Kuala Lumpur 1998 Commonwealth Games.

©Getty ImagesIt is hoped that around 200 athletes will represent the country, in diving, swimming, athletics

At the Olympics, some of our athletes did very well in cycling, athletics and diving."

Bangladesh - July 2022Bangladesh returned home from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with a pair of silver medals, which for them represented a good result.

Hossain Khan's air rifle success at Manchester 2002.Rokib, the general secretary of the Bangladesh Athletics

Federation, has travelled to Birmingham 2022 directly from the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.He

will be overseeing around 30 athletes in athletics, boxing, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting

Zambia - March 2022Zambia's President will be taking a keen interest in this year's Commonwealth Games, because he knows the host city well.

the country is still involved in rugby sevens qualifying for both men and women.Confirmed sports are athletics

 "Having the 200 metres champion at the African Games is an achievement for athletics..."

Uganda - January 2022When Joshua Cheptegei crossed the line first to win gold in the 5,000 metres at Tokyo 2020, he confirmed Uganda's best-ever Olympic performance.

We want to defend the medals we won at Gold Coast 2018, and also get some more, but not only in athletics

to send a delegation of between 120 and 140 people to Birmingham, with places already confirmed in athletics

hoping the country's track stars will all compete in Birmingham, but the close proximity of the World Athletics

 Birmingham 2022 is due to open just four days after the end of the flagship World Athletics event

World Athletics are holding their key competition around the same time in Oregon, so we are working to

The Gambia - June 2022The Gambia has only won a solitary bronze medal in its Commonwealth Games history but will travel to Birmingham 2022 with Africa's fastest woman.

Twenty-seven-year-old Gina Bass won gold in the 100 metres at the African Athletics Championships in

 "But because of Gina Bass people are now looking at athletics."

Tanzania - May 2022In 1974, Tanzania won its first Commonwealth Games gold medal in truly spectacular style.

the job for last year's rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the country fielded a team of three in athletics

St Helena - February 2022When the British needed somewhere remote for the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte - a place from where return was impossible - they opted for St Helena.

For Birmingham 2022, St Helena has selected an 11-strong team in athletics, badminton and swimming.Stevens

Tristan da Cunha.Aiden Yon-Stevens, Nick's son, will compete in the 400 metres in Birmingham as the first athletics

South Africa - July 2022South Africa is still eyeing a piece of sporting history at this year's Commonwealth Games, despite losing the opportunity to host them.

turn to what might have been in Durban.However, the CGF's new blueprint for the Games, which lists athletics

The teenage pair demonstrate the young talent South Africa is hoping to promote across its squad.In athletics

injury-hit season.Caster Semenya is also likely to be missing as she continues her fight against World Athletics

distances at Gold Coast 2018 and the double Olympic gold medallist could run in the 5,000m at the World Athletics

supported by South African sport which insists Semenya should simply be treated as a female athlete.World Athletics

Sierra Leone - May 2022For Sierra Leone, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could not just be about the sport.

 Sierra Leone is planning to take a team of 30 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in athletics, badminton