Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the athletics events were held in Melbourne, Australia from 19 March to 25 March 2006. A total of 47 events were contested, of which 24 by male and 23 by female athletes. Furthermore, three men's and three women's disability events were held within the programme. All athletics events took place within the Melbourne Cricket Ground, while the marathon and racewalking events took place on the streets of Melbourne and finished at the main stadium.[1]

Athletics at the 18th Commonwealth Games
The host stadium in Melbourne
Dates	19 March – 25 March
Host city	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Level	Senior
Events	47 (+6 disability)
Participation	748 (+disabled) athletes from 63 nations
Records set	11 Games records
← 2002 Manchester 2010 Delhi → 2006 Commonwealth Games

The hosts Australia easily won the medals table with 16 golds and 41 medals in total. Jamaica came second with 10 golds and 22 medals, while Kenya and England were the next best performers. A total of eleven Games records were broken over the course of the seven-day competition. Six of the records were broken by Australian athletes.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Asafa Powell  Jamaica	10.03 s	Olusoji Fasuba  Nigeria	10.11 s	Marc Burns  Trinidad and Tobago	10.17 s
200 metres	Omar Brown  Jamaica	20.47 s	Stéphan Buckland  Mauritius	20.47 s	Chris Williams  Jamaica	20.52 s
400 metres	John Steffensen  Australia	44.73 s	Alleyne Francique  Grenada	45.09 s	Jermaine Gonzales  Jamaica	45.16 s
800 metres	Alex Kipchirchir Rono  Kenya	1:45.88 min	Achraf Tadili  Canada	1:46.93 min	John Litei Nkamasiai  Kenya	1:46.98 min
1500 metres	Nicholas Willis  New Zealand	3:38.49 min	Nathan Brannen  Canada	3:39.20 min	Mark Fountain  Australia	3:39.33 min
5000 metres	Augustine Choge  Kenya	12:56.41 min GR	Craig Mottram  Australia	12:58.19 min	Benjamin Limo  Kenya	13:05.30 min
10,000 metres	Boniface Kiprop Toroitich  Uganda	27:50.99 min	Geoffrey Kipngeno  Kenya	27:51.16 min	Fabiano Joseph Naasi  Tanzania	27:51.99 min
110 metre hurdles	Maurice Wignall  Jamaica	13.26 s	Chris Baillie  Scotland	13.61 s	Andy Turner  England	13.62 s
400 metre hurdles	L.J. van Zyl  South Africa	48.05 s GR	Alwyn Myburgh  South Africa	48.23 s	Kemel Thompson  Jamaica	48.65 s
3000 metre steeplechase	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:18.17 min	Wesley Kiprotich Koech  Kenya	8:19.38 min	Reuben Kosgei Seroney  Kenya	8:19.82 min
4×100 metre relay	Jamaica (JAM) Michael Frater Ainsley Waugh Chris Williams Asafa Powell	38.36 s	South Africa (RSA) Lee-Roy Newton Leigh Julius Snyman Prinsloo Sherwin Vries	38.98 s	Canada (CAN) Charles Allen Anson Henry Nathan Taylor Emanuel Parris	39.21 s
4×400 metre relay	Australia (AUS) John Steffensen Chris Troode Mark Ormrod Clinton Hill	3:00.93 min	South Africa (RSA) Jan van der Merwe Ofentse Mogawane Paul Gorries L. J. van Zyl	3:01.84 min	Jamaica (JAM) Lancford Davies Davian Clarke Lansford Spence Jermaine Gonzales	3:01.94 min
Marathon	Samson Ramadhani Nyonyi  Tanzania	2:11:29 h	Fred Mogaka Tumbo  Kenya	2:12:03 h	Dan Robinson  England	2:14:50 h
20 km walk	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:19:55 GR	Luke Adams  Australia	1:21:38	Jared Tallent  Australia	1:23:32
50 km walk	Nathan Deakes  Australia	3:42.53 GR	Tony Sargisson  New Zealand	3:58.05	Chris Erickson  Australia	3:58.22
High jump	Mark Boswell  Canada	2.26 m	Martyn Bernard  England	2.26 m	Kyriakos Ioannou  Cyprus	2.23 m
Pole vault	Steven Hooker  Australia	5.80 m GR	Dmitri Markov  Australia	5.60 m	Steven Lewis  England	5.50 m
Long jump	Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana	8.20 m	Gable Garenamotse  Botswana	8.17 m	Fabrice Lapierre  Australia	8.10 m
Triple jump	Phillips Idowu  England	17.45 m	Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	16.95 m	Alwyn Jones  Australia	16.75 m
Shot put	Janus Robberts  South Africa	19.76 m	Dorian Scott  Jamaica	19.75 m	Scott Martin  Australia	19.48 m
Discus throw	Scott Martin  Australia	63.48 m	Jason Tunks  Canada	63.07 m	Dariusz Slowik  Canada	61.49 m
Hammer throw	Stuart Rendell  Australia	77.53 m GR	James Steacy  Canada	74.75 m	Christiaan Harmse  South Africa	73.81 m
Javelin throw	Nicholas Nieland  England	80.10 m	William Hamlyn Harris  Australia	79.89 m	Oliver Dziubak  Australia	79.89 m
Decathlon	Dean Macey  England	8143	Maurice Smith  Jamaica	8074	Jason Dudley  Australia	8001

Men's disability events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres T12	Adekunle Adesoji  Nigeria	11.07 s	Hilton Langenhoven  South Africa	11.22 s	Eriyo Etinosa  Nigeria	11.43 s
200 metres T46	Francis Heath  Australia	22.96 s	David Roos  South Africa	23.12 s	Vitalis Lanshima  Nigeria	23.16 s
Discus throw (seated)	Tanto Campbell  Jamaica	34.48 m	Jacques Martin  Canada	32.28 m	Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan  India	29.88 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Sheri-Ann Brooks  Jamaica	11.19 s	Geraldine Pillay  South Africa	11.31 s	Delphine Atangana  Cameroon	11.39 s
200 metres	Sherone Simpson  Jamaica	22.59 s	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica	22.72 s	Geraldine Pillay  South Africa	22.92 s
400 metres	Christine Ohuruogu  England	50.28 s	Tonique Williams-Darling  Bahamas	50.76 s	Novlene Williams  Jamaica	51.12 s
800 metres	Janeth Jepkosgei  Kenya	1:57.88 min	Kenia Sinclair  Jamaica	1:58.16 min	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:58.77 min
1500 metres	Lisa Dobriskey  England	4:06.21 min	Sarah Jamieson  Australia	4:06.64 min	Hayley Tullett  Wales	4:06.76 min
5000 metres	Isabella Ochichi  Kenya	14:57.84 min	Joanne Pavey  England	14:59.08 min	Lucy Wangui Kabuu  Kenya	15:00.20 min
10,000 metres	Lucy Kabuu  Kenya	31:29.66 min	Evelyne Wambui Nganga  Kenya	31:30.86 min	Mara Yamauchi  England	31:49.40 min
100 metre hurdles	Brigitte Foster-Hylton  Jamaica	12.75 s	Angela Whyte  Canada	12.94 s	Delloreen Ennis-London  Jamaica	13.00 s
400 metre hurdles	Jana Pittman  Australia	53.82 s GR	Natasha Danvers Smith  England	55.17 s	Lee McConnell  Scotland	55.25 s
3000 m steeplechase	Dorcus Inzikuru  Uganda	9:19.51 min GR	Melissa Rollison  Australia	9:24.29 min	Donna MacFarlane  Australia	9:25.05 min
4×100 metre relay	Jamaica (JAM) Daniele Browning Sheri-Ann Brooks Peta-Gaye Dowdie Sherone Simpson	43.10 s	England (ENG) Anyika Onuora Kimberly Wall Laura Turner Emma Ania	43.43 s	Australia (AUS) Sally McLellan Melanie Kleeberg Lauren Hewitt Crystal Attenborough	44.25 s
4×400 metre relay	Australia (AUS) Jana Pittman Caitlin Willis Tamsyn Lewis Rosemary Hayward	3:28.66 min	India (IND) Rajwinder Kaur Chitra Soman Manjeet Kaur Pinki Pramanik	3:29.57 min	Nigeria (NGR) Kudirat Akhigbe Joy Eze Folashade Abugan Christiana Epukhon	3:31.83 min
Marathon	Kerryn McCann  Australia	2:30:54	Helen Cherono Koskei  Kenya	2:30:56	Liz Yelling  England	2:32:19
20 km walk	Jane Saville  Australia	1:32:46 GR	Natalie Saville  Australia	1:33:33	Cheryl Webb  Australia	1:36:03
High jump	Anika Smith  South Africa	1.91 m	Julie Crane  Wales	1.88 m	Karen Beautle  Jamaica	1.83 m
					Angela McKee  New Zealand
Pole vault	Kym Howe  Australia	4.62 m GR	Tatiana Grigorieva  Australia	4.35 m	Stephanie McCann  Canada	4.25 m
Long jump	Bronwyn Thompson  Australia	6.97 m GR	Kerrie Taurima  Australia	6.57 m	Celine Laporte  Seychelles	6.57 m
Triple jump	Trecia Smith  Jamaica	14.39 m	Otonye Iworima  Nigeria	13.53 m	Nadia Williams  England	13.42 m
Shot put	Valerie Vili  New Zealand	19.66 m GR	Vivian Chukwuemeka  Nigeria	18.75 m	Cleopatra Borel-Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	17.54 m
Discus throw	Elizna Naude  South Africa	61.55 m	Seema Antil  India	60.56 m	Dani Samuels  Australia	59.44 m
Hammer throw	Brooke Krueger  Australia	67.90 m GR	Jennifer Joyce  Canada	67.29 m	Lorraine Shaw  England	66.00 m
Javelin throw	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa	60.72 m	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	60.54 m	Olivia McKoy  Jamaica	58.27 m
Heptathlon	Kelly Sotherton  England	6396	Kylie Wheeler  Australia	6298	Jessica Ennis  England	6269

Women's disability events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres T37	Elizabeth McIntosh  Australia	14.38 s	Katrina Webb  Australia	14.51 s	Beverley Jones  Wales	14.81 s
800 metres T54 (wheelchair)	Chantal Petitclerc  Canada	1:48.98	Eliza Stankovic  Australia	1:49.62	Diane Roy  Canada	1:53.76
Shot put (seated)	Njideka Iyiazi  Nigeria	6.78 m	Virginia Ohagwu  Nigeria	6.08 m	Asti Poole  Australia	5.33 m

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)*	16	12	13	41
2	Jamaica (JAM)	10	4	8	22
3	Kenya (KEN)	6	5	4	15
4	England (ENG)	6	4	8	18
5	South Africa (SAF)	5	7	2	14
6	Canada (CAN)	2	7	4	13
7	Nigeria (NGR)	2	4	3	9
8	New Zealand (NZL)	2	1	1	4
9	Uganda (UGA)	2	0	0	2
10	Tanzania (TAN)	1	0	1	2
11	Ghana (GHA)	1	0	0	1
12	India (IND)	0	2	1	3
13	Bahamas (BAH)	0	2	0	2
14	Wales (WAL)	0	1	2	3
15	Scotland (SCO)	0	1	1	2
16	Botswana (BOT)	0	1	0	1
	Grenada (GRN)	0	1	0	1
	Mauritius (MRI)	0	1	0	1
19	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	2	2
20	Cameroon (CMR)	0	0	1	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	0	1	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		53	53	54	160

Participating nations

•  Anguilla (2)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (8)
•  Australia (103)
•  Bahamas (16)
•  Bangladesh (2)
•  Belize (3)
•  Bermuda (5)
•  Botswana (10)
•  British Virgin Islands (2)
•  Cameroon (8)
•  Canada (38)
•  Cayman Islands (6)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Cyprus (9)
•  Dominica (3)
•  England (83)
•  Fiji (10)
•  Gambia (7)
•  Ghana (12)
•  Grenada (4)
•  Guernsey (2)
•  Guyana (3)
•  Isle of Man (2)
•  India (18)
•  Jamaica (40)
•  Jersey (2)
•  Kenya (38)
•  Kiribati (2)
•  Lesotho (6)
•  Malawi (4)
•  Malaysia (6)
•  Maldives (4)
•  Mauritius (13)
•  Montserrat (3)
•  Mozambique (3)
•  Namibia (2)
•  New Zealand (25)
•  Nigeria (30)
•  Niue (1)
•  Northern Ireland (7)
•  Pakistan (6)
•  Papua New Guinea (11)
•  Saint Helena (1)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
•  Saint Lucia (6)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4)
•  Samoa (4)
•  Scotland (18)
•  Seychelles (3)
•  Sierra Leone (14)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Solomon Islands (4)
•  Sri Lanka (7)
•  South Africa (50)
•  Swaziland (2)
•  Tanzania (13)
•  Tonga (3)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (16)
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (5)
•  Uganda (8)
•  Wales (19)
•  Vanuatu (4)
•  Zambia (3)

References

General

• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-19). Marathons kick-off athletics in front of 76,000 crowd - Commonwealth Games, Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-20). 79,000 witness Powell saunter to 100m gold - Commonwealth Games, Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-21). Macey defeats injury, and Williams-Darling is beaten - Commonwealth Games, Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-22). Wishing to emulate Freeman – Commonwealth Games, Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-23). 83,000 spectators applaud Pittman's gold - Commonwealth Games, Day Five. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-24). Mutola Defeated, Aussies inspired - Commonwealth Games, Day Six . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Brown, Matthew (2006-03-25). Jamaican sprint dominance continues as Games conclude - Commonwealth Games Day 7. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

Specific

1. Brown, Matthew (2006-03-17). A Gathering of World champions in Melbourne - Commonwealth Games preview. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

External links

• Official 2006 Commonwealth Games athletics page