Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Athletics at the 17th Commonwealth Games | |
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Dates | 26–30 July 2002 |
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 |
Athletics at the blind | men | |||
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800 m wheelchair | women | |||
At the 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
Women
- Track and road events
* Athletes who ran in heats and received medals.
- Field and combined events
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump |
Hestrie Cloete South Africa |
1.96 m GR | Susan Jones England |
1.90 m | Nicole Forrester Canada |
1.87 m |
Pole vault |
Tatiana Grigorieva Australia |
4.35 m | Kym Howe Australia |
4.15 m | Irie Hill England |
4.10 m |
Bridgid Isworth Australia | ||||||
Stephanie McCann Canada | ||||||
Long jump |
Elva Goulbourne Jamaica |
6.70 m | Jade Johnson England |
6.58 m | Anju Bobby George India |
6.49 m |
Triple jump |
Ashia Hansen England |
14.86 m GR | 14.82 m | 14.32 m | ||
Shot put |
Vivian Chukwuemeka Nigeria |
17.53 m | Valerie Adams New Zealand |
17.45 m | 16.77 m | |
Discus throw |
Beatrice Faumuina New Zealand |
60.82 m | Neelam Jaswant Singh India |
58.49 m | Shelley Newman England |
58.13 m |
Hammer throw |
Lorraine Shaw England |
66.83 m | Bronwyn Eagles Australia |
65.24 m | Karyne Di Marco Australia |
63.40 m |
Javelin throw |
Laverne Eve Bahamas |
58.46 m | Cecilia McIntosh Australia |
57.42 m | Kelly Morgan England |
57.09 m |
Heptathlon |
Jane Jamieson Australia |
6059 points | Kylie Wheeler Australia |
5962 points | 5906 points |
Disability events
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Men's 100 m EAD
|
Adekunle Adesoji Nigeria |
10.76 WR | Hisham Khaironi Malaysia |
11.53 | Rory Field South Africa |
11.96 |
Women's 800 m wheelchair | Chantal Petitclerc Canada |
1:52.93 | Louise Sauvage Australia |
1:53.30 | 1:54.20 |
Medal table
Retrieved from 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Official Website.[2]
* Host nation (England)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | England* | 12 | 6 | 11 | 29 |
2 | Australia | 9 | 9 | 10 | 28 |
3 | South Africa | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
4 | Kenya | 4 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
5 | Jamaica | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
6 | Bahamas | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
7 | Canada | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
8 | Nigeria | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
9 | New Zealand | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
10 | Namibia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Tanzania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
12 | Guyana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mozambique | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 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 |
Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
21 | Cayman Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Saint Lucia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (23 entries) | 48 | 48 | 50 | 146 |
Participating nations
- Anguilla (3)
- Antigua and Barbuda (3)
- Australia (71)
- Bahamas (16)
- Bangladesh (2)
- Barbados (9)
- Belize (2)
- Bermuda (2)
- Botswana (7)
- British Virgin Islands(6)
- Cameroon (9)
- Canada (38)
- Cayman Islands (2)
- Cook Islands (2)
- Cyprus (16)
- Dominica (5)
- England (131)
- Fiji (10)
- The Gambia (6)
- Ghana (5)
- Gibraltar (1)
- Grenada (3)
- Guernsey (4)
- Guyana (2)
- India (5)
- Isle of Man(3)
- Jamaica (49)
- Kenya (24)
- Kiribati (2)
- Lesotho (10)
- Malawi (4)
- Malaysia (2)
- Maldives (2)
- Malta (2)
- Mauritius (14)
- Montserrat (1)
- Mozambique (3)
- Namibia (7)
- New Zealand (16)
- Nigeria (36)
- Niue (5)
- Norfolk Island (2)
- Northern Ireland (10)
- Pakistan (7)
- Papua New Guinea (3)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (3)
- Saint Lucia (2)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4)
- Samoa (3)
- Scotland (22)
- Seychelles (2)
- Sierra Leone (18)
- Singapore (1)
- Solomon Islands (3)
- South Africa (19)
- Sri Lanka (12)
- Swaziland (2)
- Tanzania (8)
- Tonga (3)
- Trinidad and Tobago (16)
- Turks and Caicos Islands (4)
- Uganda (6)
- Vanuatu (3)
- Wales (35)
- Zambia (4)
- Zimbabwe (7)
References
- ^ Road Athletics. Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ Medals awarded for Athletics. Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
External links
- 2002 Athletics results from official website
- Results from BBC