A look back at women’s multi-events at the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games isn t renowned for being innovative and the women had to wait until 1970 for their first medal opportunity in the multi events.
A look back at the history of this ten-discipline event at the Commonwealth Games
Sixty two years after it was first held in the Olympics, and 26 years after the first Games, the Commonwealth finally and inexplicably provided an all-round competition f...
Sprint hurdles in the spotlight as we take an event-by-event look back at previous editions of the Commonwealth Games
The inaugural hurdles champion in 1934 was Australia s Marjorie Clark, who had already won gold in the high jump. She won by an estima...
It’s the turn of the men’s 120 yards and 110m hurdles as we take an event-by-event look back at the Commonwealth Games
The first winner over 120 yards was Lord Burghley or to give him his full name, David George Brownlow Cecil Lord Burghl...
It’s the turn of the women’s 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase in our event-by-event history of the Commonwealth Games
The 10,000m debuted in 1986 to beat the Europeans, Olympics and World Championships in hosting the 25-lap event.
The history of the women’s 3000m and 5000m at the Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth athletes had to wait four years more than their European counterparts to run the 3000m and in windy conditions and at a slight altitude in Edmonton in 1978, the fir...
