Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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. 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.

Athletics at the 17th Commonwealth Games
The host stadium in Manchester
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
← 1998 Kuala Lumpur 2006 Melbourne → 2002 Commonwealth 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	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.98	Uchenna Emedolu  Nigeria	10.11	Pierre Browne  Canada	10.12
200 metres	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	20.06	Marlon Devonish  England	20.19	Darren Campbell  England	20.21
400 metres	Michael Blackwood  Jamaica	45.07	Shane Niemi  Canada	45.09	Avard Moncur  Bahamas	45.12
800 metres	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  South Africa	1:46.32	Joseph Mutua  Kenya	1:46.57	Kris McCarthy  Australia	1:46.79
1500 metres	Michael East  England	3:37.35	William Chirchir  Kenya	3:37.70	Youcef Abdi  Australia	3:37.77
5000 metres	Sammy Kipketer  Kenya	13:13.51	Benjamin Limo  Kenya	13:13.57	William Kirui  Kenya	13:18.02
10,000 metres	Wilberforce Talel  Kenya	27:45.39 GR	Paul Malakwen Kosgei  Kenya	27:45.46	John Yuda Msuri  Tanzania	27:45.78
110 metres hurdles	Shaun Bownes  South Africa	13.35	Colin Jackson  Wales	13.39	Maurice Wignall  Jamaica	13.62
400 metres hurdles	Chris Rawlinson  England	49.14	Matt Elias  Wales	49.28	Ian Weakley  Jamaica	49.69
3000 metres steeplechase	Stephen Cherono  Kenya	8:19.41	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:19.78	Abraham Cherono  Kenya	8:19.85
4 x 100 metres relay	England Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Allyn Condon, Darren Campbell	38.62	Jamaica Michael Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Asafa Powell	38.62	Australia Tim Williams, Paul Di Bella, David Baxter, Patrick Johnson	38.87
4 x 400 metres relay	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	Francis Naali  Tanzania	2:11.58	Joshua Chelanga  Kenya	2:12.44	Andrew Letherby  Australia	2:13.23
20 kilometres walk	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:25.35 GR	Luke Adams  Australia	1:26.03	David Kimutai  Kenya	1:28.20
50 kilometres walk	Nathan Deakes  Australia	3:52.40 GR	Craig Barrett  New Zealand	3:56.42	Tim Berrett  Canada	4:04.25
High jump	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.28 m	Kwaku Boateng  Canada	2.25 m	Benjamin Challenger  England	2.25 m
Pole vault	Okkert Brits  South Africa	5.75 m	Paul Burgess  Australia	5.70 m	Dominic Johnson  Saint Lucia	5.60 m
Long jump	Nathan Morgan  England	8.02 m	Gable Garenamotse  Botswana	7.91 m	Kareem Streete-Thompson  Cayman Islands	7.89 m
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards  England	17.86 m GR	Phillips Idowu  England	17.68 m	Leevan Sands  Bahamas	17.26 m
Shot put	Justin Anlezark  Australia	20.91 m GR	Janus Robberts  South Africa	19.97 m	Carl Myerscough  England	19.91 m
Discus throw	Frantz Kruger  South Africa	66.39 m GR	Jason Tunks  Canada	62.61 m	Robert Weir  England	59.24 m
Hammer throw	Michael Jones  England	72.55 m	Philip Jensen  New Zealand	69.48 m	Paul Head  England	68.60 m
Javelin throw	Steve Backley  England	86.81 m	Scott Russell  Canada	78.98 m	Nick Nieland  England	78.63 m
Decathlon	Claston Bernard  Jamaica	7830 points	Matthew McEwen  Australia	7685 points	Jamie Quarry  Scotland	7630 points

Women

Track and road events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	10.91 GR	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	11.00	Savatheda Fynes  Bahamas	11.07
200 m	Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	22.20 GR	Juliet Campbell  Jamaica	22.54	Lauren Hewitt  Australia	22.69
400 m	Aliann Pompey  Guyana	51.63	Lee McConnell  Scotland	51.68	Sandie Richards  Jamaica	51.79
800 m	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.35 GR	Diane Cummins  Canada	1:58.82	Agnes Samaria  Namibia	1:59.15 (NR)
1500 m	Kelly Holmes  England	4:05.99	Hayley Tullett  Wales	4:07.52	Helen Pattinson  England	4:07.62
5000 m	Paula Radcliffe  England	14.31.42 GR	Edith Masai  Kenya	14:53.76	Iness Chenonge  Kenya	15:06.06
10,000 m	Salina Kosgei  Kenya	31:27.83 GR	Susan Chepkemei  Kenya	31:32.04	Susie Power  Australia	31:32.20
Marathon	Kerryn McCann  Australia	2:30.05 GR	Krishna Stanton  Australia	2:34.52	Jackie Gallagher  Australia	2:36.37
100 m hurdles	Lacena Golding-Clarke  Jamaica	12.77	Vonette Dixon  Jamaica	12.83	Angela Atede  Nigeria	12.98
400 m hurdles	Jana Pittman  Australia	54.40	Debbie-Ann Parris  Jamaica	55.24	Karlene Haughton  Canada	56.13
20 km walk	Jane Saville  Australia	1:36.34 GR	Lisa Kehler  England	1:36.45	Yuan Yufang  Malaysia	1:40.00
4 x 100 m relay	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	Australia Lauren Hewitt Cathy Freeman Tamsyn Lewis Jana Pittman	3:25.63 GR	England Helen Frost Helen Karagounis Melanie Purkiss Lisa Miller Jenny Meadows*	3:26.73	Nigeria 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	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	Françoise Mbango  Cameroon	14.82 m	Trecia Smith  Jamaica	14.32 m
Shot put	Vivian Chukwuemeka  Nigeria	17.53 m	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	17.45 m	Johanna Abrahamse  South Africa	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	Margaret Simpson  Ghana	5906 points

Disability events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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	Eliza Stankovic  Australia	1:54.20

Medal table

Retrieved from 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Official Website.

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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)

External links

• 2002 Athletics results from official website
• Results from BBC