Australia’s boxing captain Luke Woods has accused Commonwealth Games organisers of putting the health of fighters at risk following the farcical situation at Monday’s official weigh-in.

In scenes reminiscent to a Benny Hill sketch, dozens of boxers from around the world were forced to run around the athletes’ village or jump into the sauna in a bid to try and sweat off the weight after the scales incorrectly measured them as being overweight.

Angry coaches demanded answers from officials after almost every fighter was deemed to be overweight.

After much shouting and finger-pointing the scales were discovered to be faulty when a 50kg weight brought in from the gym registered at 51.4kg.

‘‘It is a very big drama, boxers all over the world they drop four or five kilos of their natural weight just to make the division and they are already dehydrated and haven’t eaten or drunk in 24 hours,’’ Woods said.