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List Of Commonwealth Games Medallists In Athletics (women)
This is the complete list of Commonwealth Games medallists in women's athletics from 1934 to 2022. Current events 100 metres 200 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 5000 metres 10,000 metres 100 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles 3000 metres steeplechase 4 × 100 metres relay 4 × 400 metres relay Marathon 10 km walk High jump Pole vault Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus throw Hammer throw Javelin throw Heptathlon Disability events 100 metres T12 100 metres T37 800 metres T54 1500 metres T54 Long jump F37/38 Shot put seated Shot put F32-34/52/53 Discontinued events 80 metres hurdles 100 yards 220 yard 440 yard 880 yard 20 kilometres race walk 4 × 110 yards relay 110-220-110 yards relay 220-110-220-110 relay Pentathlon References Results Databasefrom the Commonwealth Games Federation {{Athletics medalists Athletics Medalists * Commonwealth Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (cancelled due to World War II), have successively run every four years since. The Games were called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men. Inspired by the Inter-Empire Championships, part of the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Davis-Thompson
Pauline Elaine Davis-Thompson (born 9 July 1966) is a former Bahamian sprinter. She competed at five Olympics, a rarity for a track and field athlete. She won her first medal at her fourth Olympics and her first gold medals at her fifth Olympics (Sydney 2000) at age 34 in the 4 × 100 m Relay and, after Marion Jones' belated disqualification nine years later, in the 200m. Career In 1984, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1984 CARIFTA Games. Her first high-profile success came in 1989 when she became the NCAA National Champion in the 200-meter dash while setting a collegiate national record as a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide team at the University of Alabama. Then in 1995, she won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and won another silver, this time in the 400 metres, at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. She ran at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics the following year and alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Endacott
Katherine Endacott (born 29 January 1980) is a former British sprinter who competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, .... References 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Plymouth, Devon English female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Mayers
Natasha Laren Mayers (born 10 March 1979 in Saint Vincent) is a professional track and field sprinter who competes internationally for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. She is the national record holder over 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. She represented her country at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004, and had the honour of national flag bearer at the latter edition. She has also appeared at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2001 and 2003, as well as having taken part at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. She won the 2002 NCAA women's 200 m title, running for the USC Trojans. Mayers received a two-year competitive ban from athletics after testing positive for excess testosterone in July 2005. She returned to international competition in 2010 and won the 100 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – an initial bronze medallist, she was twice upgraded as both of the other two original medallists were disqualified. Career Early career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delphine Atangana
Delphine Bertille Atangana (born 16 August 1984 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. At the Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games she won the bronze medal in the 100 metres and finished seventh in the 200 metres. She also competed at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres, 2004 Olympic Games, the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 2005 World Championships, the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships - Women's 60 metres, 2008 World Indoor Championships, the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, 2011 World Championships, the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2012 World Indoor Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. She won the gold in the 200 m at the Athletics at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, Afro-Asian Games. Her personal best time is 11.24 seconds, achieved in October 2003 in Abuja. She has 23.26 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Pillay
Geraldine Pillay (born 25 August 1977) is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. Achievements * 2008 African Championships - sixth place (100 metres), fourth place (200 metres), bronze medal (4x100 metres relay) * 2006 African Championships - silver medal (200 metres) *2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ... - silver medal (100 metres), bronze medal (200 metres) * 2004 African Championships - bronze medal (100 metres), gold medal (200 metres) Personal bests *60 metres – 7.38 s (2002) *100 metres – 11.07 s (2005) *200 metres – 22.78 s (2005) External links * 1977 births Living people South African female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheri-Ann Brooks
Sheri-Ann Brooks (born 11 February 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres. She is the first child of Mr. Error Brooks and Mrs. Donna Brooks. Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown. In its first round heat, Jamaica placed first in front of Russia, Germany and China. The Jamaica relay's time of 42.24 seconds was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result, Jamaica qualified for the final, replacing Brooks and Bailey with Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart. Jamaica did not finish the race due to a mistake in the baton exchange. She qualified for the 100 m at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics with a third-place finish at the Jamaican national championships, behind Fraser and Stewart. In June, 2009, Brooks was one of five members of the Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savatheda Fynes
Savatheda Fynes (born October 17, 1974) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. Some sources spell her first name "Sevatheda." Career She graduated Physiology and Exercise Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to injury. She had a minor car accident prior to the 2000 Olympic trials, which limited her training. At the World Championships in 1999 she was eliminated in semifinals due to an injured hip flexor. In 1996 a hamstring injury kept her out of the 100m at the Atlanta Games. She was a member of the Bahamas 4x100m relay team that won gold at the 1999 World Championships. After that performance the team of Fynes, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Chandra Sturrup and Eldece Clark-Lewis were dubbed the Golden Girls. When they won the relay again at the Sydney Olympics they showed the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Campbell Brown
Veronica Campbell-Brown CD ( Campbell; born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters.Athlete biography: Veronica Campbell Brown beijing2008.cn, ret: 30 August 2008 An eight-time ist, she is the second of three women in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after of |
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (born 16 January 1976) is a former Bahamian sprint athlete who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. Ferguson-McKenzie participated in five Olympics. Ferguson-McKenzie is assistant coach of track and field at University of Kentucky. Previously, she coached for four years at the University of Houston. In 1995, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1995 CARIFTA Games. In total she won 7 gold, 9 silver, and 2 bronze CARIFTA Games medals. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic Games the following year. She won her first individual gold medal at the 2001 World Championships – having initially won silver, gold medallist Marion Jones was later disqualified. The 2002 season was a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Van Heer
Tania Van Heer (born 30 December 1970) is an Australian sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Athletics career A junior prodigy, born in Sri Lanka (her Sri Lankan 200m women Under 18 record that established in 1986 with 24.8s held for 32 years until it was broken by Shelinda Jansen in 2018), Van Heer won the Under-20 sprint treble (100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres) at the 1988 Australian Championships in Athletics. Badly affected by injury through most of her career, Van Heer was selected to represent Australia internationally on six occasions. During her best years (1998–99), when coached by 1950 British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philomena Mensah
Philomena Mensah (born May 11, 1975) is a Canadian sprinter. Born in Accra, she previously represented Ghana, but emigrated to Canada following the 1994 Commonwealth Games. She won the bronze medal in the 60 metres event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships, after having set a personal best in the heats with 7.02 seconds. International competitions *1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships - bronze medal (60 m) *1998 Commonwealth Games - silver medal (100 m) * 1994 African Junior Athletics Championships - gold medal (100 m) * 1994 African Junior Athletics Championships - bronze medal (200 m) *1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, on July 20–24. Results Men Women Medal table Participation According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 1139 ath ... - bronze medal (100 m) External links * * archived PDF * 1975 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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