Athletics at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Athletics was one of the seven sports of the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games. Held between 9 and 11 September, the events were staged at the National Sports Centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Athletics at the IV Commonwealth Youth Games
DatesSeptember
Host cityDouglas, Isle of Man
VenueNational Sports Centre
Events34
Records set11 games records


A total of 34 athletics events were contested, 17 for both boys and girls. Racewalking and pole vault events were scheduled for both sexes, but did not take place due to lack of entries. Over the course of the three-day tournament 11 Commonwealth Youth Games records were set or improved. Strong tailwinds affected both the sprint events and horizontal jumps.

Each Commonwealth Games Association sent up to two athletes per event, including one relay team. The age of participating athletes was limited to 16- and 17-year-olds only. This meant that for 2011 athletes must have been born in 1994 or 1995 to be eligible to take part.[1]

England was the most successful nation in the athletics programme, winning twelve events and taking 21 medals in total. South Africa won the next most gold medals, with six, while Australia had the next highest medal tally, with 17 medals overall. Kenya also performed well, with four golds among its ten medals. Host nation Isle of Man won one bronze medal. Twenty-six nations reached the athletics medal table.

The men's 800 metres was high calibre and medallists Timothy Kitum and Nijel Amos both went on to win medals at the 2012 London Olympics. Jazmin Sawyers, the long jump and relay gold medallist in Douglas, advanced into the senior ranks three years later at the 2014 Commonwealth Games by getting the long jump silver.

Medal summary edit

Boys edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[2]
(wind: +2.9 m/s)
Tahir Walsh
  Antigua and Barbuda
10.50 w Chijindu Ujah
  England
10.52 w Josh Clarke
  Australia
10.53 w
200 metres[3] Tom Holligan
  Scotland
21.52 w Tahir Walsh
  Antigua and Barbuda
21.66 w Dalton Coppins
  New Zealand
21.75 w
400 metres[4] Clovis Asong
  England
47.76 Alphas Kishoyian
  Kenya
48.28 George Caddick
  England
48.99
800 metres[5] Timothy Kitum
  Kenya
1:49.32 GR Leonard Kosencha
  Kenya
1:50.62 Nigel Amos
  Botswana
1:51.07
1500 metres[6] Jonathan Sawe
  Kenya
3:48.38 Vincent Mutai
  Kenya
3:50.32 Robbie Farnham-Rose
  England
3:51.89
3000 metres[7] Wiliam Sitonik
  Kenya
7:57.03 GR Patrick Mwikya
  Kenya
8:00.81 Phillip Kipyeko
  Uganda
8:02.33
110 metres hurdles[8]
(wind: +3.4 m/s)
Andries van der Merwe
  South Africa
13.32 w Anthony Collins
  Australia
13.59 w Jack Edwards
  Australia
13.85 w
400 metres hurdles[9] Durgesh Kumar
  India
51.76 GR Johannes Pretorius
  South Africa
53.05 Kion Joseph
  Barbados
53.52
2000 metres steeplechase[10] Zak Seddon
  England
5:41.81 GR Zakaria Kiprotich
  Uganda
5:43.93 Katleho Dyoyi
  South Africa
5:56.91
4×100 metres relay[11]   South Africa (RSA)
Bradley Britz
Pieter Conradie
Johannes Pretorius
Andries van der Merwe
41.00   England (ENG)
Leon Reid
Elliot Safo
Joshua Street
Chijindu Ujah
41.06   Canada (CAN)
Steven Ajayi
Drelan Bramwell
Denray Jean-Jacques
Keefer Joyce
41.06
High jump[12] Willem van Schalkwyk
  South Africa
2.03 m Tom Henry
  Australia
2.00 m Michael Hartley
  England
1.90 m
Long jump[13] Angus Gould
  Australia
7.52 m w Elliot Safo
  England
7.41 m w Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye
  Turks and Caicos Islands
7.15 m w
Triple jump[14] Sithembiso Janki
  South Africa
14.85 m Jimi Tele
  England
14.60 m Gervais Tsoaoule-Mpazambe
  Cameroon
13.88 m
Shot put[15] Navjetdeep Singh
  India
18.81 m GR Ruan Combrinck
  South Africa
18.57 m Hezekiel Romeo
  Trinidad and Tobago
17.97 m
Discus throw[16] Gerhard de Beer
  South Africa
67.44 m GR Nicholas Percy
  Scotland
62.96 m Jan-Louw Kotze
  South Africa
62.90 m
Hammer throw[17] Callum Brown
  England
72.19 m GR Michael Painter
  England
68.64 m Nicholas Percy
  Scotland
64.96 m
Javelin throw[18] Morne Moolman
  South Africa
81.53 m GR Luke Cann
  Australia
75.21 m Adrian Williams
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
63.02 m

Girls edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[19]
(wind: +2.4 m/s)
Sophie Papps
  England
11.53 w Caroline Morin-Houde
  Canada
11.81 w Shaina Harrison
  Canada
11.81 w
200 metres
(wind: +2.2 m/s)
Dina Asher-Smith
  England
24.30 w Caroline Morin-Houde
  Canada
24.44 w Chloe Lambert
  Scotland
24.49 w
400 metres[20] Halima Nakaayi
  Uganda
57.16 Siwanthi Rathnayaka
  Sri Lanka
58.95 Alcindor Carinne
  Mauritius
59.71
800 metres Katie Snowden
  England
2:11.20 Rochelle Kennedy
  Australia
2:12.06 Vanessa Mcleod
  Canada
2:13.08
1500 metres[21] Ffion Price
  Wales
4:44.14 Sophie Linn
  Australia
4:45.33 Meropi Panagiotou
  Cyprus
4:47.47
3000 metres Emelia Gorecka
  England
9:14.08 Nancy Cheptegei
  Uganda
9:22.70 Norah Jeruto Tanui
  Kenya
9:24.02
100 metres hurdles[22]
(wind: +4.1 m/s)
Yasmin Miller
  England
13.30 w Abbie Taddeo
  Australia
13.70 w Deshaunda Morrison
  Canada
13.77 w
400 metres hurdles Tatum Shaw
  Australia
60.49 GR Hayley McLean
  England
61.76 Taylor Farquhar
  Canada
62.00
2000 metres steeplechase[23] Norah Jeruto Tanui
  Kenya
6:28.10 GR Nancy Cheptegei
  Uganda
6:36.41 Lilian Chemweno
  Kenya
6:41.80
4×100 metres relay   England (ENG)
Dina Asher-Smith
Yasmin Miller
Sophie Papps
Jazmin Sawyers
46.19   Canada (CAN)
Shaina Harrison
Alexa Hrycun
Caroline Morin-Houde
Marie-Colombe St-Pierre
46.58   Australia (AUS)
Margaret Gayen
Tatum Shaw
Abbie Taddeo
Sophie Taylor
48.10
High jump[24] Leontia Kallenou
  Cyprus
1.79 m Jeanelle Scheper
  Saint Lucia
1.76 m Reagan Dee
  Isle of Man
1.65 m
Long jump[25] Jazmin Sawyers
  England
6.27 m w Naa Anang
  Australia
5.94 m w Margaret Gayen
  Australia
5.87 m w
Triple jump Natalie Apikotoa
  Australia
12.55 m Greer Alsop
  New Zealand
12.39 m w Sabrina Allen
  Jamaica
11.42 m
Shot put[26] Sophie McKinna
  England
14.75 m Taylah Sengul
  Australia
14.10 m Chei Kenneally
  New Zealand
12.96 m
Discus throw[27] Taylah Sengul
  Australia
50.71 m GR Shadine Duquemin
  Jersey
49.25 m Navjeet Kaur Dhillon
  India
45.27 m
Hammer throw[28] Louisa James
  England
58.10 m Kimberley Reed
  Scotland
54.22 m Mikki Genge
  Australia
51.49 m
Javelin throw[29] Sune Wittmann
  Namibia
43.25 m Carys Mansfield
  Wales
39.18 m Shanica Yankey
  Dominica
37.39 m

Medal table edit

  *   Host nation (Isle of Man)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  England126321
2  South Africa62210
3  Australia48517
4  Kenya44210
5  India2013
6  Uganda1315
7  Scotland1225
8  Antigua and Barbuda1102
  Wales1102
10  Cyprus1012
11  Namibia1001
12  Canada0358
13  New Zealand0123
14  Jersey0101
  Saint Lucia0101
  Sri Lanka0101
17  Barbados0011
  Botswana0011
  Cameroon0011
  Dominica0011
  Isle of Man*0011
  Jamaica0011
  Mauritius0011
  Saint Kitts and Nevis0011
  Trinidad and Tobago0011
  Turks and Caicos Islands0011
Totals (26 entries)343434102

References edit

Results
  1. ^ "Sports – Athletics". cyg2011.com. CYG 2011 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Athletics - 100m Men final
  3. ^ Athletics – 200m Men final
  4. ^ Athletics - 400m Men finak
  5. ^ Athletics – 800m Men final
  6. ^ Athletics - 1500m Men final
  7. ^ Athletics – 3000m Men
  8. ^ Athletics - 110m Hurdles Men final
  9. ^ Athletics – 400m Hurdles Men
  10. ^ Athletics - 2000m Steeplechase Men final
  11. ^ Athletics – 4 x 100m Relay Men
  12. ^ Athletics - High Jump Men final
  13. ^ Athletics - Long Jump Men Final
  14. ^ Triple Jump Men Final
  15. ^ Athletics – Shot Put Men
  16. ^ Athletics - Discus Throw Men final
  17. ^ Athletics – Hammer Throw Men
  18. ^ Athletics – Javelin Throw Men
  19. ^ Athletics - 100m Women final
  20. ^ Athletics - 400m Women final
  21. ^ Athletics - 1500m Women final
  22. ^ Athletics - 100m Hurdles Women final
  23. ^ Athletics - 2000m Steeplechase Women final
  24. ^ Athletics - High Jump Women final
  25. ^ Athletics - Long Jump Women final
  26. ^ Athletics - Shot Put Women final
  27. ^ Athletics - Discus Throw Women final
  28. ^ Athletics - Hammer Throw Women final
  29. ^ Athletics - Javelin Throw Women final

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