Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games explained

Event:	Athletics
Games:	2022
Venue:	Alexander Stadium (track and field) Smithfield (marathon start) Victoria Square (marathon finish)
Dates:	30 July−7 August 2022
Competitors:	905
Nations:	68
Events:	59
Prev:	2018
Next:	2026

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]

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**
	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
		H			½	F
				H				F
					F
			F
							H			½		F
				H						½			F
				H										F
							H				F
				H						F
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			F
			H					F
			H									F
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									H					F
	F
	F
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			Q		F
												F
		Q						F
													F
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		Q						F
					F
											F
														F
							F

**Women**
	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
		H			½	F
			F
			F
							H			½		F
				H						½			F
		H						½				F
									H					F
		H						F
														F
					F
									H				F
								H				F
										F
											H		F
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	F
	F
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							Q				F
			F
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					F
											F
			F
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		F

Venue

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

See 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

Men

	10.02		10.13		10.14
	19.80,		20.12		20.49
	44.66		44.81		44.89
	1:47.52		1:47.66		1:48.25
	3:30.12,		3:30.21		3:30.53
	13:08.08		13:08.19		13:08.48
	27:09.19		27:11.26		27:20.34
	13.08		13.30		13.37
	48.93		49.78		49.97
	8:11.15		8:11.20		8:16.83
Jona Efoloko Zharnel Hughes Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Ojie Edoburun	38.35	Jerod Elcock Eric Harrison Jr. Kion Benjamin Kyle Greaux	38.70	Udodi Onwuzurike Favour Ashe Alaba Akintola Raymond Ekevwo	38.81
Dwight St. Hillaire Asa Guevara Machel Cedenio Jereem Richards	3:01.29	Leungo Scotch Zibane Ngozi Anthony Pesela Bayapo Ndori	3:01.85	Wiseman Mukhobe Mike Nyang'au William Rayian Boniface Mweresa	3:02.41
	2:10:55		2:12:29		2:13:16
	38:36.37,		38:42.33		38:49.21
	2.25 m		2.25 m		2.22 m
	5.70 m		5.55 m =		5.50 m
	8.08 m		8.08 m		8.06 m
	17.03 m		17.02 m		16.92 m
	22.26 m		21.90 m		20.57 m
	67.26 m		64.99 m		64.58 m
	76.43 m		76.36 m		73.97 m
	90.18 m,		88.64 m		85.70 m
	8233 pts		8197 pts		8030 pts

Para Sport

10.83	10.90	10.95
11.24	11.54	11.65
10.94	11.10	11.14
3:11.83	3:12.15	3:12.82
1:41:15	1:45:49	1:45:49
51.39 m	44.20 m	54.76 m

Women

	10.95		11.01		11.07
	22.02		22.51		22.80
	49.90		50.72		51.26
	1:57.07		1:57.40		1:57.87
	4:02.75		4:04.14		4:04.79
	14:38.21		14:42.14		14:48.24
	30:48.60		30:49.52		31:09.46
	12.30		12.58		12.59
	54.14		54.47		54.47
	9:15.68,		9:17.79		9:23.24
Asha Philip Imani-Lara Lansiquot Bianca Williams Daryll Neita	42.41	Kemba Nelson Natalliah Whyte Remona Burchell Elaine Thompson-Herah	43.08		43.16
Natassha McDonald Aiyanna Stiverne Micha Powell Kyra Constantine	3:25.84	Shiann Salmon Junelle Bromfield Roneisha McGregor Natoya Goule	3:26.93	Zoey Clark Beth Dobbin Jill Cherry Nicole Yeargin	3:30.15
	2:27:31		2:28:00		2:28:39
	42:34.30,		43:38.83		43:50.86,
	1.95 m		1.92 m		1.92 m
	4.60 m		4.45 m		4.45 m
	7.00 m		6.95 m		6.94 m
	14.94 m,		14.39 m		14.37 m
	19.03 m		18.98 m		18.84 m
	61.70 m		58.42 m		56.99 m
	74.08 m		69.63 m		67.35 m
	64.34 m		64.27 m		60.00 m
	6377 pts		6233 pts		6212 pts

Para Sport

16.84	17.79		19.58
12.83	13.09		13.13
3:53.03	3:53.30		3:53.38
1:56:00	1:59:45	align=center colspan=2	Not awarded (only 4 entries)
10.03,	9.38		9.30
36.56 m,	34.96 m		23.70 m

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.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Commonwealth Games Hosts London, England 1911 . Topend Sports Network . 19 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190601201401/https://www.topendsports.com/events/commonwealth-games/hosts/london0.htm . 1 June 2019 . live.
Web site: Detailed Results Athletics and Para Athletics Schedule. BOCCG. 20 July 2022.
News: Birmingham Named As 2022 Commonwealth Games Host City . 19 February 2022 . . . 21 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220218222113/https://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/birmingham-named-as-2022-commonwealth-games-host-city-1790619 . 18 February 2022 . live.
Web site: Venues ALEXANDER STADIUM. BOCCG. 19 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220217002241/https://www.birmingham2022.com/venues/alexander-stadium/. 17 February 2022. live.
Web site: Venues SMITHFIELD. BOCCG. 19 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211204063438/https://www.birmingham2022.com/venues/smithfield/. 4 December 2021. live.
Web site: Venues VICTORIA SQUARE. BOCCG. 19 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211027130453/https://www.birmingham2022.com/venues/victoria-square/. 27 October 2021. live.
Web site: Athlete Allocation System Athletics. https://web.archive.org/web/20220417091514/https://dochub.com/timskyrider/gzdnE7NwJMBGpzAVQyW3BJ/athletics-b2022-athlete-allocation-system.pdf. Commonwealth Sport / World Athletics. 3. 10 December 2021. 17 April 2022. 17 April 2022. live.
Web site: Athlete Allocation System Para Athletics. https://web.archive.org/web/20220415131004/https://dochub.com/timskyrider/dbnaAMqK9dqOGQkRGNXJm0/para-athletics-b2022-athlete-allocation-system-revised-v3.pdf. Commonwealth Sport / World Para Athletics. 12 December 2021. 13 May 2022. 15 April 2022. live.
Web site: Athletics and Para Athletics Number of Entries by CGA. 3 August 2022. www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 5 August 2022.