Scotland's Highlights
The Scottish Team, with the Bank of Scotland as first time title sponsors, had been preparing for the heat and humidity of the Games with the support of the Scottish Institute of Sports Medicine and Sports Science but despite better preparation than before found medals hard to come by.
Sport by Sport
Shooting
Early medal success however was found hundreds of miles north at the Shooting range on the resort of Langkawi as Shirley McIntosh and Susan Bell won bronze in the new ranges hacked from the jungle.
Athletics
Other medals were slower to arrive, with illness robbing European 200m champion Dougie Walker of his form on the track. The bright light here was the emergence of Alison Curbishley with a Silver in the women's 400m. A brave run in the heat and humidity by Vikki McPherson just failed to reward her with a Bronze as she finished fourth with Scotland not medalling in the Women's 10,000m for the first time.
Badminton
Badminton also saw Doubles Bronze success for Sandra Watt and Elinor Middlemiss in her fourth Games, Elinor carrying an injury which prevented her from perhaps collecting another medal with Scotland's most capped player husband Kenny, in the Mixed Doubles.
Lawn Bowls
Inconsistent green conditions cost Scotland dearly in the Bowls as they finished without a medal in the men's events, however Joyce Lindores and Margaret Letham rose above the conditions to take Women's Pairs Gold, Scotland's only Bowling medal.
Boxing
The Boxers again were successful with Jackie Townsley collecting a Bronze to go with brother Joe's Victoria medal. Colin McNeil also taking a Bronze. The success story however was Edinburgh featherweight Alex Arthur whose self belief propelled him to Gold to continue Boxing's golden run since 1990.
Cricket
A number of other events and competitors were severely affected by the conditions in particular the Cricket team. In their Games debut they were up against Test nations of Pakistan and New Zealand and struggled against poor wickets, monsoon rain and lightening bowling!!
Squash
Of the new sports, Squash had the greatest medal success with Peter Nicol succeeding in a titantic battle with rival Jonathan Power to win the Men's Singles and he later teamed up with Stuart Cowie to win Bronze in the Doubles. The manner of his success and Scottish joy at winning has only made his decision early in 2001 to play for England at the 2002 Games due to monetary reasons an even more bitter pill to swallow for the Scottish public.
The medal tally of 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 7 Bronze medals which was Scotland's lowest since 1966 reflected both the difficult conditions and increased competition in a truly international Games of over 70 countries with World and Olympic champions in most events. While total medals were down on 1994, the Gold medal tally of these Games was still equal to that in 1974 and 1978 and the home Games of 1986.