Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Athletics at the 17th Commonwealth Games
The host stadium in Manchester
Dates	26–30 July
Host city	Manchester, England
Venue	City of Manchester Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	46 (+2 disability)
Participation	739 (+25 disabled) athletes from 66 nations
Records set	16 Games records
← 1998 Kuala Lumpur 2006 Melbourne → 2002 Commonwealth Games

Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Para-athletics
100 m blind
800 m wheelchair
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At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the athletics events were held at the City of Manchester Stadium on 26–30 July 2002. The route for the marathon event crossed Manchester city centre and finished in the stadium. The race walk events began alongside the Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.^[1] There were twenty-five men's events and 23 women's events; the schedules were identical except that there were men's 3000 metres steeplechase and 50 kilometres walk events. Pole vaulter Dominic Johnson won a bronze medal, Saint Lucia's only medal of the Games.

Sixteen Games records were bettered over the course of the competition, and two further records were set in the disability events.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Kim Collins	9.98	Uchenna Emedolu	10.11	Pierre Browne  Canada	10.12
200 metres details	Frankie Fredericks	20.06	Marlon Devonish  England	20.19	Darren Campbell  England	20.21
400 metres details	Michael Blackwood  Jamaica	45.07	Shane Niemi  Canada	45.09	Avard Moncur  Bahamas	45.12
800 metres details	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	1:46.32	Joseph Mutua	1:46.57	Kris McCarthy  Australia	1:46.79
1500 metres details	Michael East  England	3:37.35	William Chirchir	3:37.70	Youcef Abdi  Australia	3:37.77
5000 metres details	Sammy Kipketer	13:13.51	Benjamin Limo	13:13.57		13:18.02
10,000 metres details	Wilberforce Talel	27:45.39 GR	Paul Malakwen Kosgei	27:45.46	John Yuda Msuri	27:45.78
110 metres hurdles details	Shaun Bownes	13.35	Colin Jackson  Wales	13.39	Maurice Wignall  Jamaica	13.62
400 metres hurdles details	Chris Rawlinson  England	49.14	Matt Elias  Wales	49.28	Ian Weakley  Jamaica	49.69
3000 metres steeplechase details	Stephen Cherono	8:19.41	Ezekiel Kemboi	8:19.78	Abraham Cherono	8:19.85
4 x 100 metres relay details	England Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Allyn Condon, Darren Campbell	38.62	Jamaica Michael Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Asafa Powell	38.62	Australia , Paul Di Bella, , Patrick Johnson	38.87
4 x 400 metres relay details	England Jared Deacon, Sean Baldock, Chris Rawlinson, Daniel Caines	3:00.40	Wales Timothy Benjamin, Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch, Matt Elias	3:00.41	Bahamas Chris Brown, Troy McIntosh, Dominic Demeritte, Tim Munnings	3:01.35
Marathon details	Francis Naali	2:11.58	Joshua Chelanga	2:12.44	Andrew Letherby  Australia	2:13.23
20 kilometres walk details	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:25.35 GR	Luke Adams  Australia	1:26.03	David Kimutai	1:28.20
50 kilometres walk details	Nathan Deakes  Australia	3:52.40 GR	Craig Barrett  New Zealand	3:56.42	Tim Berrett  Canada	4:04.25
High jump details	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.28 m	Kwaku Boateng  Canada	2.25 m	Benjamin Challenger  England	2.25 m
Pole vault details	Okkert Brits	5.75 m	Paul Burgess  Australia	5.70 m	Dominic Johnson  Saint Lucia	5.60 m
Long jump details	Nathan Morgan  England	8.02 m	Gable Garenamotse  Botswana	7.91 m	Kareem Streete-Thompson  Cayman Islands	7.89 m
Triple jump details	Jonathan Edwards  England	17.86 m GR	Phillips Idowu  England	17.68 m	Leevan Sands  Bahamas	17.26 m
Shot put details	Justin Anlezark  Australia	20.91 m GR	Janus Robberts	19.97 m	Carl Myerscough  England	19.91 m
Discus throw details	Frantz Kruger	66.39 m GR	Jason Tunks  Canada	62.61 m	Robert Weir  England	59.24 m
Hammer throw details	Michael Jones  England	72.55 m	Philip Jensen  New Zealand	69.48 m	Paul Head  England	68.60 m
Javelin throw details	Steve Backley  England	86.81 m	Scott Russell  Canada	78.98 m	Nick Nieland  England	78.63 m
Decathlon details	Claston Bernard  Jamaica	7830 points	Matthew McEwen  Australia	7685 points	Scotland	7630 points

Women[]

Track and road events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	10.91 GR	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	11.00	Savatheda Fynes  Bahamas	11.07
200 m details	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	22.20 GR	Juliet Campbell  Jamaica	22.54	Lauren Hewitt  Australia	22.69
400 m details	Aliann Pompey	51.63	Lee McConnell  Scotland	51.68	Sandie Richards  Jamaica	51.79
800 m details	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.35 GR	Diane Cummins  Canada	1:58.82	Agnes Samaria	1:59.15 (NR)
1500 m details	Kelly Holmes  England	4:05.99	Hayley Tullett  Wales	4:07.52	Helen Pattinson  England	4:07.62
5000 m details	Paula Radcliffe  England	14.31.42 GR	Edith Masai	14:53.76	Iness Chenonge	15:06.06
10,000 m details	Salina Kosgei	31:27.83 GR	Susan Chepkemei	31:32.04	Susie Power  Australia	31:32.20
Marathon details	Kerryn McCann  Australia	2:30.05 GR	Krishna Stanton  Australia	2:34.52	Jackie Gallagher  Australia	2:36.37
100 m hurdles details	Lacena Golding-Clarke  Jamaica	12.77	Vonette Dixon  Jamaica	12.83	Angela Atede	12.98
400 m hurdles details	Jana Pittman  Australia	54.40	Debbie-Ann Parris  Jamaica	55.24	Karlene Haughton  Canada	56.13
20 km walk details	Jane Saville  Australia	1:36.34 GR	Lisa Kehler  England	1:36.45	Yuan Yufang  Malaysia	1:40.00
4 x 100 m relay details	Bahamas Tamicka Clarke Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Debbie Ferguson	42.44 GR	Jamaica Elva Goulbourne Juliet Campbell Astia Walker Veronica Campbell	42.73	England Joice Maduaka Shani Anderson Vernicha James Abiodun Oyepitan	42.84
4 x 400 m relay details	Australia Lauren Hewitt Cathy Freeman Tamsyn Lewis Jana Pittman	3:25.63 GR	England Helen Frost Helen Karagounis Melanie Purkiss Jenny Meadows*	3:26.73	Olabisi Afolabi Kudirat Akhigbe Hajarat Yusuf Doris Jacob	3:29.16

* Athletes who ran in heats and received medals.

Field and combined events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Hestrie Cloete	1.96 m GR	Susan Jones  England	1.90 m	Nicole Forrester  Canada	1.87 m
Pole vault details	Tatiana Grigorieva  Australia	4.35 m	Kym Howe  Australia	4.15 m	Irie Hill  England	4.10 m
					Australia
					Stephanie McCann  Canada
Long jump details	Elva Goulbourne  Jamaica	6.70 m	Jade Johnson  England	6.58 m	Anju Bobby George  India	6.49 m
Triple jump details	Ashia Hansen  England	14.86 m GR	Françoise Mbango	14.82 m	Trecia Smith  Jamaica	14.32 m
Shot put details	Vivian Chukwuemeka	17.53 m	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	17.45 m	Johanna Abrahamse	16.77 m
Discus throw details	Beatrice Faumuina  New Zealand	60.82 m	Neelam Jaswant Singh  India	58.49 m	Shelley Newman  England	58.13 m
Hammer throw details	Lorraine Shaw  England	66.83 m	Bronwyn Eagles  Australia	65.24 m	Karyne Di Marco  Australia	63.40 m
Javelin throw details	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	58.46 m	Cecilia McIntosh  Australia	57.42 m	Kelly Morgan  England	57.09 m
Heptathlon details	Jane Jamieson  Australia	6059 points	Kylie Wheeler  Australia	5962 points	Margaret Simpson  Ghana	5906 points

Disability events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 100 m EAD	Adekunle Adesoji	10.76 WR	Malaysia	11.53		11.96
Women's 800 m wheelchair	Chantal Petitclerc  Canada	1:52.93	Louise Sauvage  Australia	1:53.30	Eliza Stankovic  Australia	1:54.20

Medal table[]

Retrieved from 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Official Website.^[2]

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England*	12	6	11	29
2	Australia	9	9	10	28
3		5	1	2	8
4		4	8	4	16
5	Jamaica	4	6	4	14
6	Bahamas	4	0	4	8
7	Canada	2	5	5	12
8		2	1	2	5
9	New Zealand	1	3	0	4
10		1	0	1	2
		1	0	1	2
12		1	0	0	1
	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
15	Wales	0	4	0	4
16	India	0	1	1	2
	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
	Scotland	0	1	1	2
19	Botswana	0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
21	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		48	48	50	146

Participating nations[]

References[]

External links[]

• 2002 Athletics results from official website
• Results from BBC