Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Athletics was one of the core sports that was held at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. As a founding sport, athletics had appeared consistently since its introduction at the 1911 Inter-Empire Games, the recognized precursor to the Commonwealth Games.^[1]

Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Alexander Stadium (track and field) Smithfield (marathon start) Victoria Square (marathon finish)
Dates	30 July−7 August 2022
Competitors	905 from 68 nations
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The competition was split in two parts:the four marathon events (including the wheelchair marathon) were scheduled to the day 30 July and the other 54 events were held between 2 and 7 August 2022, spread across 58 events (including 10 para athletics events).^[2]

Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:^[2]

Qualifying / Heats

½

Semi-finals

F

Final

Men

Date Event	Sat 30		Tue 2		Wed 3			Thu 4		Fri 5		Sat 6		Sun 7
Session →	M		M	E	M	E		M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
100 m			H			½	F
100 m (T12)					H				F
100 m (T38)						F
100 m (T47)				F
200 m								H			½		F
400 m					H						½			F
800 m					H										F
1500 m								H				F
1500 m (T54)					H						F
5000 m													F
10,000 m				F
110 m hurdles				H					F
400 m hurdles				H									F
3000 m steeplechase												F
4 × 100 m relay												H		F
4 × 400 m relay										H					F
Marathon	F
Marathon (T54)	F
10,000 m walk														F
High jump				Q		F
Pole vault													F
Long jump			Q						F
Triple jump														F
Shot put											F
Discus throw			Q						F
Discus throw (F44)/(F64)						F
Hammer throw												F
Javelin throw															F
Decathlon								F

Women

Date Event	Sat 30		Tue 2		Wed 3			Thu 4		Fri 5		Sat 6		Sun 7
Session →	M		M	E	M	E		M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
100 m			H			½	F
100 m (T34)				F
100 m (T38)				F
200 m								H			½		F
400 m					H						½			F
800 m			H						½				F
1500 m										H					F
1500 m (T54)			H						F
5000 m															F
10,000 m						F
100 m hurdles										H				F
400 m hurdles									H				F
3000 m steeplechase											F
4 × 100 m relay												H		F
4 × 400 m relay															F
Marathon	F
Marathon (T54)	F
10,000 m walk												F
High jump								Q				F
Pole vault				F
Long jump										Q					F
Triple jump					Q						F
Shot put						F
Shot put (F57)												F
Discus throw				F
Discus throw (F44)/(F64)									F
Hammer throw													F
Javelin throw														F
Heptathlon			F

Venue

Alexander Stadium during the athletics events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Track and field events (including the race walks events start and the finish) were held at the Alexander Stadium,^[3] which was also the chosen venue for the opening and closing ceremonies.^[4] The marathons were held along a course that passed through streets in the city centre and famous locations including Smithfield / Victoria Square) and Bournville.^[5][6]

Qualification

Race walks

In addition to the variations that traditionally occur for EAD events, there was a change in the athletics program in relation to the Gold Coast 2018, which was the reduction of the distance of race walking events from 20 km to 10 km.The athletes entered for the 10 km march had to meet the following Minimum Participation Standards between 1 January 2021 and 27 June 2022:^[7]

• Men – 44:00 (or 1:30:00 over 20 kilometres)
• Women – 51:00 (or 1:45:00 over 20 kilometres)

All selections were made from nations' open allocation quotas.

Parasport

Main article: Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Qualification

A total of up to 96 para athletes (48 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. Nations may earn three quotas per event, allocated as follows:^[8]

• Athletes in the World Para Athletics (WPA) World Rankings (for performances between 31 December 2020 and 25 April 2022).
• Recipients of a CGF/WPA Bipartite Invitation.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	CGA	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	10	10	5	25
2	England*	8	14	12	34
3	Kenya	6	5	9	20
4	Jamaica	6	5	2	13
5	Nigeria	5	1	3	9
6	Canada	4	1	2	7
7	Uganda	3	0	1	4
8	Scotland	2	2	4	8
9	New Zealand	2	2	2	6
10	Trinidad and Tobago	2	1	0	3
11	Wales	2	0	1	3
12	India	1	4	3	8
13	South Africa	1	2	2	5
14	Barbados	1	1	1	3
15	Bahamas	1	1	0	2
	Grenada	1	1	0	2
17	British Virgin Islands	1	0	0	1
	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
	Zambia	1	0	0	1
20	Northern Ireland	0	2	0	2
21	Sri Lanka	0	1	1	2
22	Botswana	0	1	0	1
	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
	Dominica	0	1	0	1
	Saint Lucia	0	1	0	1
	Tanzania	0	1	0	1
27	Namibia	0	0	3	3
28	Ghana	0	0	2	2
29	Bermuda	0	0	1	1
	Cyprus	0	0	1	1
	Fiji	0	0	1	1
	Guernsey	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		58	58	57	173

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya	10.02	Akani Simbine  South Africa	10.13	Yupun Abeykoon  Sri Lanka	10.14
200 metres details	Jereem Richards  Trinidad and Tobago	19.80 GR, PB	Zharnel Hughes  England	20.12 SB	Joseph Amoah  Ghana	20.49
400 metres details	Muzala Samukonga  Zambia	44.66 NR	Matthew Hudson-Smith  England	44.81	Jonathan Jones  Barbados	44.89
800 metres details	Wyclife Kinyamal  Kenya	1:47.52	Peter Bol  Australia	1:47.66	Ben Pattison  England	1:48.25
1500 metres details	Oliver Hoare  Australia	3:30.12 GR, PB	Timothy Cheruiyot  Kenya	3:30.21 SB	Jake Wightman  Scotland	3:30.53
5000 metres details	Jacob Kiplimo  Uganda	13:08.08 SB	Nicholas Kimeli  Kenya	13:08.19	Jacob Krop  Kenya	13:08.48
10,000 metres details	Jacob Kiplimo  Uganda	27:09.19 GR SB	Daniel Ebenyo  Kenya	27:11.26 PB	Kibiwott Kandie  Kenya	27:20.34 PB
110 metres hurdles details	Rasheed Broadbell  Jamaica	13.08 GR PB	Shane Brathwaite  Barbados	13.30 SB	Andrew Pozzi  England	13.37
400 metres hurdles details	Kyron McMaster  British Virgin Islands	48.93	Jaheel Hyde  Jamaica	49.78	Alastair Chalmers  Guernsey	49.97
3000 metres steeplechase details	Abraham Kibiwot  Kenya	8:11.15	Avinash Sable  India	8:11.20 PB	Amos Serem  Kenya	8:16.83
4 × 100 metres relay details	England Jona Efoloko Zharnel Hughes Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Ojie Edoburun	38.35 SB	Trinidad and Tobago Jerod Elcock Eric Harrison Jr. Kion Benjamin Kyle Greaux	38.70 SB	Nigeria Udodi Onwuzurike Favour Ashe Alaba Akintola Raymond Ekevwo	38.81
4 × 400 metres relay details	Trinidad and Tobago Dwight St. Hillaire Asa Guevara Machel Cedenio Jereem Richards	3:01.29	Botswana Leungo Scotch Zibane Ngozi Anthony Pesela Bayapo Ndori	3:01.85	Kenya Wiseman Mukhobe Mike Nyang'au William Rayian Boniface Mweresa	3:02.41 SB
Marathon details	Victor Kiplangat  Uganda	2:10:55	Alphonce Simbu  Tanzania	2:12:29	Michael Githae  Kenya	2:13:16
10,000 metres walk details	Evan Dunfee  Canada	38:36.37 GR, PB	Declan Tingay  Australia	38:42.33 PB	Sandeep Kumar  India	38:49.21 PB
High jump details	Hamish Kerr  New Zealand	2.25 m	Brandon Starc  Australia	2.25 m	Tejaswin Shankar  India	2.22 m
Pole vault details	Kurtis Marschall  Australia	5.70 m	Adam Hague  England	5.55 m =SB	Harry Coppell  England	5.50 m
Long jump details	LaQuan Nairn  Bahamas	8.08 m	Murali Sreeshankar  India	8.08 m	Jovan van Vuuren  South Africa	8.06 m
Triple jump details	Eldhose Paul  India	17.03 m w	Abdulla Aboobacker  India	17.02 m	Jah-Nhai Perinchief  Bermuda	16.92 m
Shot put details	Tom Walsh  New Zealand	22.26 m	Jacko Gill  New Zealand	21.90 m PB	Scott Lincoln  England	20.57 m
Discus throw details	Matthew Denny  Australia	67.26 m PB	Lawrence Okoye  England	64.99 m	Traves Smikle  Jamaica	64.58 m
Hammer throw details	Nick Miller  England	76.43 m	Ethan Katzberg  Canada	76.36 m	Alexandros Poursanidis  Cyprus	73.97 m
Javelin throw details	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	90.18 m GR, NR	Anderson Peters  Grenada	88.64 m	Julius Yego  Kenya	85.70 m SB
Decathlon details	Lindon Victor  Grenada	8233 pts	Daniel Golubovic  Australia	8197 pts SB	Cedric Dubler  Australia	8030 pts

Para Sport

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (T12) details	Ndodomzi Ntutu  South Africa	10.83	Zachary Shaw  England	10.90	Ananias Shikongo  Namibia	10.95
100 metres (T38) details	Evan O'Hanlon  Australia	11.24 GR SB	Charl du Toit  South Africa	11.54 GR SB	Zachary Gingras  Canada	11.65
100 metres (T47) details	Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker  England	10.94 GR PB	Jaydon Page  Australia	11.10	Ola Abidogun  England	11.14 PB
1500 metres (T54) details	Nathan Maguire  England	3:11.83	Daniel Sidbury  England	3:12.15	Samuel Carter  Australia	3:12.82
Marathon (T54) details	John Charles Smith  England	1:41:15	Sean Frame  Scotland	1:45:49 SB	Simon Lawson  England	1:45:49
Discus throw (F44)/(F64) details	Aled Davies  Wales	51.39 m	Palitha Bandara  Sri Lanka	44.20 m PB	Harrison Walsh  Wales	54.76 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Elaine Thompson-Herah  Jamaica	10.95	Julien Alfred  Saint Lucia	11.01	Daryll Neita  England	11.07
200 metres details	Elaine Thompson-Herah  Jamaica	22.02 GR	Favour Ofili  Nigeria	22.51	Christine Mboma  Namibia	22.80
400 metres details	Sada Williams  Barbados	49.90 GR	Victoria Ohuruogu  England	50.72 PB	Jodie Williams  England	51.26 SB
800 metres details	Mary Moraa  Kenya	1:57.07	Keely Hodgkinson  England	1:57.40	Laura Muir  Scotland	1:57.87 SB
1500 metres details	Laura Muir  Scotland	4:02.75	Ciara Mageean  Northern Ireland	4:04.14 SB	Abbey Caldwell  Australia	4:04.79
5000 metres details	Beatrice Chebet  Kenya	14:38.21 SB	Eilish McColgan  Scotland	14:42.14 SB	Selah Busieni  Kenya	14:48.24 PB
10,000 metres details	Eilish McColgan  Scotland	30:48.60 GR	Irene Chepet Cheptai  Kenya	30:49.52 SB	Sheila Chepkirui  Kenya	31:09.46 SB
100 metres hurdles details	Tobi Amusan  Nigeria	12.30 GR	Devynne Charlton  Bahamas	12.58	Cindy Sember  England	12.59
400 metres hurdles details	Janieve Russell  Jamaica	54.14	Shiann Salmon  Jamaica	54.47	Zeney van der Walt  South Africa	54.47 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jackline Chepkoech  Kenya	9:15.68 GR, PB	Elizabeth Bird  England	9:17.79 PB	Peruth Chemutai  Uganda	9:23.24
4 × 100 metres relay details	England Asha Philip Imani-Lara Lansiquot Bianca Williams Daryll Neita	42.41 SB	Jamaica Kemba Nelson Natalliah Whyte Remona Burchell Elaine Thompson-Herah	43.08	Australia Ella Connolly Bree Masters Jacinta Beecher Naa Anang	43.16
4 × 400 metres relay details	Canada Natassha McDonald Aiyanna Stiverne Micha Powell Kyra Constantine	3:25.84	Jamaica Shiann Salmon Junelle Bromfield Roneisha McGregor Natoya Goule	3:26.93	Scotland Zoey Clark Beth Dobbin Jill Cherry Nicole Yeargin	3:30.15 SB
Marathon details	Jessica Stenson  Australia	2:27:31 SB	Margaret Muriuki  Kenya	2:28:00 PB	Helalia Johannes  Namibia	2:28:39 SB
10,000 metres walk details	Jemima Montag  Australia	42:34.30 GR, PB	Priyanka Goswami  India	43:38.83 PB	Emily Wamusyi Ngii  Kenya	43:50.86 AR, PB
High jump details	Lamara Distin  Jamaica	1.95 m	Eleanor Patterson  Australia	1.92 m	Kimberly Williamson  Jamaica	1.92 m
Pole vault details	Nina Kennedy  Australia	4.60 m	Molly Caudery  England	4.45 m	Imogen Ayris  New Zealand	4.45 m SB
Long jump details	Ese Brume  Nigeria	7.00 m GR	Brooke Buschkuehl  Australia	6.95 m	Deborah Acquah  Ghana	6.94 m PB
Triple jump details	Shanieka Ricketts  Jamaica	14.94 m GR, SB	Thea LaFond  Dominica	14.39 m	Naomi Metzger  England	14.37 m
Shot put details	Sarah Mitton  Canada	19.03 m	Danniel Thomas-Dodd  Jamaica	18.98 m	Maddison-Lee Wesche  New Zealand	18.84 m
Discus throw details	Chioma Onyekwere  Nigeria	61.70 m SB	Jade Lally  England	58.42 m	Obiageri Amaechi  Nigeria	56.99 m
Hammer throw details	Camryn Rogers  Canada	74.08 m	Julia Ratcliffe  New Zealand	69.63 m	Jillian Weir  Canada	67.35 m
Javelin throw details	Kelsey-Lee Barber  Australia	64.34 m	Mackenzie Little  Australia	64.27 m PB	Annu Rani  India	60.00 m
Heptathlon details	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  England	6377 pts SB	Kate O'Connor  Northern Ireland	6233 pts SB	Jade O'Dowda  England	6212 pts

Para Sport

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (T34) details	Hannah Cockroft  England	16.84 GR	Kare Adenegan  England	17.79 SB	Fabienne André  England	19.58
100 metres (T38) details	Olivia Breen  Wales	12.83 PB	Sophie Hahn  England	13.09	Rhiannon Clarke  Australia	13.13
1500 metres (T54) details	Madison de Rozario  Australia	3:53.03	Angela Ballard  Australia	3:53.30	Samantha Kinghorn  Scotland	3:53.38
Marathon (T54) details	Madison de Rozario  Australia	1:56:00 GR	Eden Rainbow-Cooper  England	1:59:45 PB	Not awarded (only 4 entries)
Shot put (F57) details	Eucharia Iyiazi  Nigeria	10.03 GR, SB	Arlette Mawe Fokoa  Cameroon	9.38 PB	Ugochi Alam  Nigeria	9.30
Discus throw (F44)/(F64) details	Goodness Nwachukwu  Nigeria	36.56 m WR, GR	Sarah Edmiston  Australia	34.96 m	Naibili Vatunisolo  Fiji	23.70 m PB

Participating nations

There were 68 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in athletics with a total of 905 (494 men and 411 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[9] Brunei, Falkland Islands, Norfolk Island and Niue did not enter any athletes.

•  Anguilla (4)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (5)
•  Australia (84)
•  Bahamas (11)
•  Bangladesh (5)
•  Barbados (9)
•  Belize (5)
•  Bermuda (5)
•  Botswana (17)
•  British Virgin Islands (9)
•  Cameroon (8)
•  Canada (38)
•  Cayman Islands (4)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Cyprus (11)
•  Dominica (7)
•  England (93)
•  Eswatini (5)
•  Fiji (3)
•  The Gambia (7)
•  Ghana (14)
•  Gibraltar (2)
•  Grenada (8)
•  Guernsey (5)
•  Guyana (10)
•  India (42)
•  Isle of Man (7)
•  Jamaica (49)
•  Jersey (3)
•  Kenya (48)
•  Kiribati (1)
•  Lesotho (11)
•  Malawi (3)
•  Malaysia (8)
•  Maldives (3)
•  Malta (6)
•  Mauritius (6)
•  Montserrat (5)
•  Mozambique (3)
•  Namibia (12)
•  Nauru (3)
•  New Zealand (17)
•  Nigeria (38)
•  Northern Ireland (12)
•  Pakistan (5)
•  Papua New Guinea (18)
•  Rwanda (4)
•  Saint Helena (2)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (4)
•  Saint Lucia (7)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6)
•  Samoa (9)
•  Scotland (33)
•  Seychelles (6)
•  Sierra Leone (8)
•  Singapore (14)
•  Solomon Islands (6)
•  South Africa (35)
•  Sri Lanka (7)
•  Tanzania (8)
•  Tonga (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (23)
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (7)
•  Tuvalu (1)
•  Uganda (17)
•  Vanuatu (4)
•  Wales (24)
•  Zambia (6)