Athletics at the Commonwealth Games

Athletics is one of several sports contested at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best nation
I	1930	Hamilton, Ontario	Canada	England
II	1934	London	England	England
III	1938	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	Canada
IV	1950	Auckland	New Zealand	Australia
V	1954	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	England
VI	1958	Cardiff	Wales	Australia
VII	1962	Perth, Western Australia	Australia	Australia
VIII	1966	Kingston	Jamaica	Australia
IX	1970	Edinburgh	Scotland	Australia
X	1974	Christchurch	New Zealand	England
XI	1978	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada	England
XII	1982	Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	England
XIII	1986	Edinburgh	Scotland	England
XIV	1990	Auckland	New Zealand	England
XV	1994	Victoria, British Columbia	Canada	England
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Australia
XVII	2002	Manchester	England	England
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia
XIX	2010	Delhi	India	Kenya
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	Kenya
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia

Events

Men's events

No new events have been added to the men's athletics programme since the 1998 addition of the 20 km and 50 km racewalks. The roster of events has not changed since then, with the exception of the omission of the 50 km racewalk from 2010 and the 20 km racewalk in 2014. A total of 35 different events have been held in the men's competition, 23 of which were contested at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Many of the discontinued events were similar to modern events but at different lengths as they were contested over distances measured in Imperial units. Events with distances measured in metric units were first contested in 1970.

Women's events

A total of 34 different events have been held in the women's competition, 23 of which were contested at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The women's program has been identical to the men's program since the 2006 Commonwealth Games (with the exception of the discontinued men's 50 km walk) when the women's 3000m steeplechase was added to the program. The 20 km racewalk was omitted from the program in 2014.

Elite Athletes with a Disability events

From the 2002 Commonwealth Games a number of events have been included in the program to include elite athletes with disabilities. The inclusion of events in this category has been inconsistent over the four Games where they have been included.

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	189	195	176	560
2	Australia	183	149	127	459
3	Canada	80	92	131	303
4	Kenya	68	55	44	167
5	Jamaica	50	32	34	116
6	South Africa	39	35	29	103
7	New Zealand	35	44	51	130
8	Nigeria	19	26	20	65
9	Scotland	18	21	31	70
10	Wales	14	18	18	50
11	Bahamas	9	11	10	30
12	Northern Ireland	7	10	1	18
13	Ghana	5	8	10	23
14	Uganda	5	5	6	16
15	Tanzania	5	4	6	15
16	Trinidad and Tobago	4	13	12	29
17	India	4	9	12	25
18	Pakistan	2	3	6	11
19	Guyana	2	3	1	6
20	Botswana	2	2	1	5
	Mozambique	2	2	1	5
22	Namibia	2	1	6	9
23	Zimbabwe	1	4	8	13
24	Cyprus	1	4	1	6
25	Fiji	1	2	1	4
26	Bermuda	1	1	2	4
27	Grenada	1	1	1	3
	Malaysia	1	1	1	3
	Sri Lanka	1	1	1	3
30	Barbados	1	0	4	5
31	Cayman Islands	1	0	1	2
	Zambia	1	0	1	2
33	Lesotho	1	0	0	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	0	0	1
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	0	0	1
36	Cameroon	0	3	2	5
37	Mauritius	0	1	1	2
38	Saint Lucia	0	0	3	3
39	Samoa	0	0	1	1
	Seychelles	0	0	1	1
	Swaziland	0	0	1	1
	The Gambia	0	0	1	1
Total		757	756	764	2277

Games records

External links

• Commonwealth Games sport index

Athletics at the Commonwealth Games
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Commonwealth Games records

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