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Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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Host city
  
Manchester, England

Level
  
Senior

Date(s)
  
26–30 July

Events
  
46 (+2 disability)

Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Main stadium
  
City of Manchester Stadium

Participation
  
739 (+25 disabled) athletes from 66 nations

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.

Contents

Sixteen Games records were bettered over the course of the competition, and two further records were set in the disability events.

Men

Track and road events
Field and combined events

Women

Track and road events


* Athletes who ran in heats and received medals.

Field and combined events

Medal table

Retrieved from 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Official Website.

  Host nation (England)

References

Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Wikipedia