Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Athletics at the XIX Commonwealth Games
Dates	6–12, 14 October 2010
Host city	Delhi, India
Venue	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Events	46 (+6 disabled)
Participation	845 athletes from 61 nations
Records set	-
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The athletics competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held in New Delhi, India between 6 and 14 October. The track and field events took place between 6–12 October at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium while the marathon contests were held on a street course running through the city on 14 October.^[1]

A total of 46 athletics events were contested, which made it the sport with the second greatest number of medals on offer after the aquatics competition. The programme was almost identical to that of the 2006 edition, with the sole exception being the men's 50 km race walk, which was dropped. As in 2006, three men's and three women's disability athletics events were contested alongside the open competition.^[2]

Each of the Commonwealth Games Associations could send a maximum of three participants per event and a team of six for relay events.^[3] Kenya topped the medal table, with eleven gold medals and 29 medals in total. This was the first time that the nation achieved the feat, beating the typically dominant nations Australia (eleven golds, but 20 overall) and England (seven golds, 26 medals).^[4] Canada and Jamaica rounded out the top five while hosts India enjoyed their greatest ever haul at the Games, taking home two golds and twelve medals altogether.

Four failed doping tests have so far been announced: Nigerian Oludamola Osayomi was stripped of the women's 100 m title, and her compatriot Samuel Okon, a 110 m hurdler, was also disqualified. Both athletes tested positive for methylhexanamine. , India's representative in the women's 20 km walk, was the third athlete to fail a test as 19-Norandrosterone was detected in her sample.^[5] Osayomi's 100 m stripped gold initially went to Sally Pearson of Australia but a delay in the appeals process saw Pearson disqualified for a false start some time after the race.^[6] Folashade Abugan of Nigeria tested positive for Testosterone prohormone following the final of the women's 400 metres. She was disqualified from the 400 metres and the Nigerian team, of which she was a member, were disqualified from the women's 4 x 400 metres relay where they had originally placed second.^[7]

Preparation[]

A test event for the competition was scheduled in late July: the Asian All-Star Athletics Meet featured a number of prominent Asian athletes and demonstrated the stadium's readiness for games usage.^[8][9]

Many of the most prominent athletes from the Commonwealth were absent from the competition. Caster Semenya, Commonwealth champion Christine Ohuruogu, and Olympic medallist Lisa Dobriskey were among the athletes missing due to injury, but others including Usain Bolt, David Rudisha and Shelly-Ann Fraser opted to miss the competition out of choice – all ten of the year's fastest Commonwealth men's 100 m runners (including defending champion Asafa Powell) were not present.^[10] Further to this, two reigning world champions (English jumper Phillips Idowu and Australian thrower Dani Samuels) declared themselves out of the running on grounds of the security and accommodation conditions in Delhi. The competition's late scheduling within the track and field season was a primary factor in many athlete withdrawals.^[11]

In spite of this, a number of Olympic champions and other prominent names were selected to compete, including Australian Olympic/World champion Steve Hooker and New Zealand's Olympic/World Champion Valerie Adams, top Kenyan runners Nancy Langat, Vivian Cheruiyot and Ezekiel Kemboi, Bahamian high jumper Donald Thomas, and South Africa's Commonwealth champions L.J. van Zyl and Sunette Viljoen.^[10] Former world record holder Steve Cram emphasised the Games' role in developing younger athletes: "That's what it was for me, at 17 years old I went to the Commonwealth Games because Coe and Ovett didn't go. Nobody at the time was telling me it was bad that Coe and Ovett weren't there."^[11]

The stadium's track and field was damaged during the opening ceremony and major works – including the re-laying of the tarmac on the track and grass on the infield – took place in the 24 hours leading up to the first day of athletics events at the stadium.^[12] Three training venues were allocated for the athletics events: the Commonwealth Games Village 2010, Thyagaraj Sports Complex and the Delhi University sports complex.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, men's 5000 metres and 10000 metres champion

Dylan Armstrong, men's shot put champion

Andy Turner won the men's 110 m hurdles

Dai Greene won the men's 400 metre hurdles

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Pole Vault Men's), Steve Hooker of Australia (Gold), Steven Lewis of England (Silver) and Max Eaves of England (Bronze), during the medal ceremony of the event

Men's Decathlon winners: Nelson Adjetey Jami of Canada (Gold), Brent Newdick of New Zealand (Silver) and Martin Brockman of England (Bronze)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lerone Clarke (JAM)	10.12	Mark Lewis-Francis (ENG)	10.20	Aaron Armstrong (TRI)	10.24
200 metres details	Leon Baptiste (ENG)	20.45	Lansford Spence (JAM)	20.49	Christian Malcolm (WAL)	20.52
400 metres details	Mark Mutai (KEN)	45.44	Sean Wroe (AUS)	45.46	Ramon Miller ()	45.55
800 metres details	Boaz Kiplagat Lalang (KEN)	1:46.60	(KEN)	1:46.95	(KEN)	1:47.37
1500 metres details	Silas Kiplagat (KEN)	3:41:78	James Magut (KEN)	3:42:27	Nick Willis (NZL)	3:42:38
5000 metres details	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (UGA)	13:31.25	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	13:31.32	Mark Kiptoo (KEN)	13:32.58
10,000 metres details	Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (UGA)	27:57.39	(KEN)	27:57.57	Joseph Kiptoo Birech (KEN)	27:58.58
110 metres hurdles details	Andy Turner (ENG)	13.38	William Sharman (ENG)	13.50	Lawrence Clarke (ENG)	13.70
400 metres hurdles details	Dai Greene (WAL)	48.52	L. J. van Zyl (RSA)	48.63	Rhys Williams (WAL)	49.19
3000 metres steeplechase details	Richard Mateelong (KEN)	8:16.39	Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN)	8:18.47	Brimin Kipruto (KEN)	8:19.65
4×100 metres relay details	England (ENG) Ryan Scott Leon Baptiste Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.74	Jamaica (JAM) Lerone Clarke Lansford Spence Rasheed Dwyer Remaldo Rose *	38.79	India (IND) Rahamatulla Molla Suresh Sathya Shameer Naseema Manzile Md Abdul Najeeb Qureshi	38.89
4×400 metres relay details	Australia (AUS) Joel Milburn Kevin Moore Brendan Cole Sean Wroe Ben Offereins*	3:03.30	Kenya (KEN) Vincent Koskei Vincent Kiilo Mark Mutai	3:03.84	England (ENG) Conrad Williams Nick Leavey Richard Yates Robert Tobin * Graham Hedman*	3:03.97
Marathon details	John Kelai (KEN)	2:14:35	Michael Shelley (AUS)	2:15:28	Amos Tirop Matui (KEN)	2:15:58
20 kilometres walk details	Jared Tallent (AUS)	1:22:18	Luke Adams (AUS)	1:22:41	Harminder Singh (IND)	1:23:27
High jump details	Donald Thomas ()	2.32 m	Trevor Barry ()	2.29 m	Kabelo Kgosiemang (BOT)	2.26 m
Pole vault details	Steven Hooker (AUS)	5.60 m	Steven Lewis (ENG)	5.60 m	Max Eaves (ENG)	5.40 m
Long jump details	Fabrice Lapierre (AUS)	8.30 m	Greg Rutherford (ENG)	8.22 m	Ignisious Gaisah (GHA)	8.12 m
Triple jump details	Tosin Oke (NGR)	17.16 m	Hugo Mamba (CMR)	17.14 m	Renjith Maheswary (IND)	17.07 m
Shot put details	Dylan Armstrong (CAN)	21.02 m GR	Dorian Scott (JAM)	20.19 m	Dale Stevenson (AUS)	19.99 m
Discus throw details	Benn Harradine (AUS)	65.45 m	Vikas Gowda (IND)	63.69 m	Carl Myerscough (ENG)	60.64 m
Hammer throw details	Chris Harmse (RSA)	73.12 m	Alex Smith (ENG)	72.95 m	Mike Floyd (ENG)	69.34 m
Javelin throw details	Jarrod Bannister (AUS)	81.71 m	Stuart Farquhar (NZL)	78.15 m	Kashinath Naik (IND)	74.29 m
Decathlon details	Jamie Adjetey-Nelson (CAN)	8070	Brent Newdick (NZL)	7899	(ENG)	7712

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Men's para-sport[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (T46) details	Simon Patmore (AUS)	11.14	Samkelo Radebe (RSA)	11.25	(NGR)	11.37
1500 metres (T54) details	Kurt Fearnley (AUS)	3:19.86	Richard Colman (AUS)	3:20.90	Josh Cassidy (CAN)	3:21.14
Shot put (F32/34/52) details	Kyle Pettey (CAN)	1021 (11.44 m)	Dan West (ENG)	969 (10.78 m)	Hamish MacDonald (AUS)	889 (9.92 m)

Women[]

Grace Momanyi of Kenya won the women's 10000 metres

Donald Thomas was the victor in the men's highjump

Steve Hooker of Australia won the men's pole vault

Winners of Discus (Women's) Krishna Poonia of India (Gold), Harwant Kaur of India (Silver) and Seema Antil of India (Bronze) during the medal presentation ceremony

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi (Women's) Athletics Long Jump Alice Falaiye of Canada (Gold), Prajusha Maliakkal of India (Silver) and Tabia Charles of Canada (Bronze), during the medal presentation ceremony

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Natasha Mayers (SVG)	11.37	Katherine Endacott (ENG)	11.44	Delphine Atangana (CMR)	11.48
200 metres details	Cydonie Mothersille (CAY)	22.89	Abiodun Oyepitan (ENG)	23.26	Adrienne Power (CAN)	23.52
400 metres details	Amantle Montsho (BOT)	50.10 GR	Aliann Pompey (GUY)	51.65	Christine Amertil ()	51.96
800 metres details	Nancy Langat (KEN)	2:00.01	Nikki Hamblin (NZL)	2:00.05	Diane Cummins (CAN)	2:00.13
1500 metres details	Nancy Langat (KEN)	4:05.26 GR	Nikki Hamblin (NZL)	4:05.97	Stephanie Twell (SCO)	4:06.15
5000 metres details	Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)	15:55.12	Sylvia Kibet (KEN)	15:55.61	Ines Chenonge (KEN)	16:02.47
10,000 metres details	Grace Momanyi (KEN)	32:34.11	Doris Changeywo (KEN)	32:36.97	Kavita Raut (IND)	33:05.28
100 metres hurdles details	Sally Pearson (AUS)	12.67	Angela Whyte (CAN)	12.98	Andrea Miller (NZL)	13.25
400 metres hurdles details	Muizat Ajoke Odumosu (NGR)	55.28	Eilidh Child (SCO)	55.62	Nickiesha Wilson (JAM)	56.06
3000 metres steeplechase details	Milcah Chemos Cheywa (KEN)	9:40.96	Mercy Wanjiru Njoroge (KEN)	9:41.54	Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi (KEN)	9:52.51
4×100 metres relay details	England (ENG) Katherine Endacott Montell Douglas Laura Turner Abiodun Oyepitan	44.19	Ghana (GHA) Rosina Amenebede Elizabeth Amolofo Beatrice Gyaman Janet Amponsah	45.24	India (IND) Srabani Nanda H. M. Jyothi	45.25
4×400 metres relay details	India (IND) Manjeet Kaur Sini Jose Ashwini Akkunji Mandeep Kaur Jauna Murmu* Chitra Soman*	3:27.77	England (ENG) Kelly Massey Vicki Barr Meghan Beesley Joice Maduaka*	3:29.51	Canada (CAN) Adrienne Power Carline Muir Ruky Abdulai*,	3:30.20
Marathon details	Irene Jerotich (KEN)	2:34:32	Irene Mogake (KEN)	2:34:43	Lisa Weightman (AUS)	2:35:25
20 kilometres walk details	Johanna Jackson (ENG)	1:34:22	Claire Tallent (AUS)	1:36:55	Grace Njue (KEN)	1:37:49
High jump details	Nicole Forrester (CAN)	1.91 m	(JAM)	1.88 m	Levern Spencer (LCA)	1.88 m
Pole vault details	Alana Boyd (AUS)	4.40 m	Marianna Zachariadi (CYP)	4.40 m	Kate Dennison (ENG)   (CAN)  Kelsie Hendry (CAN)	4.25 m
Long jump details	Alice Falaiye (CAN)	6.50 m	Prajusha Maliakkal (IND)	6.47 m	Tabia Charles (CAN)	6.44 m
Triple jump details	Trecia-Kaye Smith (JAM)	14.19 m	Ayanna Alexander (TRI)	13.91 m	Tabia Charles (CAN)	13.84 m
Shot put details	Valerie Adams (NZL)	20.47 m GR	Cleopatra Borel-Brown (TRI)	19.03 m	Margaret Satupai (SAM)	16.43 m
Discus throw details	Krishna Poonia (IND)	61.51 m	Harwant Kaur (IND)	60.16 m	Seema Antil (IND)	58.46 m
Hammer throw details	Sultana Frizell (CAN)	68.57 m GR	Carys Parry (WAL)	64.93 m	Zoe Derham (ENG)	64.04 m
Javelin throw details	Sunette Viljoen (RSA)	62.34 m GR	Kim Mickle (AUS)	60.90 m	Justine Robbeson (RSA)	60.03 m
Heptathlon details	Louise Hazel (ENG)	6156	Jessica Zelinka (CAN)	6100	Grace Clements (ENG)	5819

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's para-sport[]

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of 100m (Women's T37) Hart Katrina of England (Gold), Mcloughlin Jenny of Wales (Silver) and Benson Johanna of Namibia (Bronze)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (T37) details	Katrina Hart (ENG)	14.36	Jenny McLoughlin (WAL)	14.68	Johanna Benson (NAM)	14.81
1500 metres (T54) details	Diane Roy (CAN)	3:53.95	(NGR)	4:09.29	Anita Fordjour (GHA)	4:18.83
Shot put (F32–34/52/53) details	Louise Ellery (AUS)	1110 (6.17 m)	Jess Hamill (NZL)	979 (7.17 m)	Gemma Prescott (ENG)	952 (5.54 m)

Games statistics[]

At the competition Amantle Montsho (Botswana) and Cydonie Mothersill (Cayman Islands) all won the first ever Commonwealth gold medals for their respective countries. Natasha Mayers (St. Vincent and Grenadines), won the first gold medal ever by a female for her country. The number of medal sweeps in the athletics (6) was at an all-time high for the competition: Kenya took all top three spaces in four events, England beat all in the men's hurdles while hosts India completed a 1–2–3 in the women's discus.^[13]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (India)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	11	10	8	29
2	Australia	11	6	3	20
3	England	7	9	10	26
4	Canada	7	2	8	17
5	Jamaica	2	4	1	7
6	India*	2	3	7	12
7	Nigeria	2	3	1	6
8	South Africa	2	2	1	5
9	Uganda	2	0	0	2
10	New Zealand	1	5	2	8
11	Wales	1	2	2	5
12		1	1	1	3
13	Botswana	1	0	1	2
14	Cayman Islands	1	0	0	1
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	0	0	1
16	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	1	3
17	Ghana	0	1	2	3
18	Cameroon	0	1	1	2
	Scotland	0	1	1	2
20	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
21	Guyana	0	0	1	1
	Namibia	0	0	1	1
	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
	Samoa	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 nations)		52	53	54	159

Participating nations[]

61 Nations competed leaving 11 that did not.

References[]

Day reports

• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-07). Kipsiro upsets Kipchoge - Commonwealth Games Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-10.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-08). Clarke and Oludamola take 100m crowns, Armstrong dominates Shot Put in Delhi – Commonwealth Games Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-10.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-09). Langat breaks Games 1500m record, Turner leads high hurdles sweep for England in Delhi – Commonwealth Games Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-10.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-10). Two more gold for Kenya, Adams dominates Shot Put - Commonwealth Games Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-10.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-11). Kenyan men sweep 800m, two medals for India in Delhi - Commonwealth Games, Day Five. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-12). India sweeps women's Discus Throw, Langat and Kipsiro complete doubles – Commonwealth Games Day Six. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-13). Women's relay team crowns Indian glory - Commonwealth Games, Day Seven. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
• Rowbottom, Mike (2010-10-14) Double marathon triumph for Kenya ends athletics programme at Commonwealth Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-15.

External links[]

• Competition schedule