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Athletics at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

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Athletics at the IV Commonwealth Youth Games
DatesSeptember
Host cityDouglas, Isle of Man
VenueNational Sports Centre
Events34
Records set11 games records


Athletics was one of the seven sports of the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games. Held between 9 and 11 September, the events were staged at the National Sports Centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

A total of 34 athletics events were contested, 17 for both boys and girls. Racewalking and pole vault events were scheduled for both sexes, but did not take place due to lack of entries. Over the course of the three-day tournament 11 Commonwealth Youth Games records were set or improved. Strong tailwinds affected both the sprint events and horizontal jumps.

Each Commonwealth Games Association sent up to two athletes per event, including one relay team. The age of participating athletes was limited to 16- and 17-year-olds only. This meant that for 2011 athletes must have been born in 1994 or 1995 to be eligible to take part.[1]

England was the most successful nation in the athletics programme, winning twelve events and taking 21 medals in total. South Africa won the next most gold medals, with six, while Australia had the next highest medal tally, with 17 medals overall. Kenya also performed well, with four golds among its ten medals. Host nation Isle of Man won one bronze medal. Twenty-six nations reached the athletics medal table.

The men's 800 metres was high calibre and medallists Timothy Kitum and Nijel Amos both went on to win medals at the 2012 London Olympics. Jazmin Sawyers, the long jump and relay gold medallist in Douglas, advanced into the senior ranks three years later at the 2014 Commonwealth Games by getting the long jump silver.

Medal summary

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Boys

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[2]
(wind: +2.9 m/s)
Tahir Walsh
 Antigua and Barbuda
10.50 w Chijindu Ujah
 England
10.52 w Josh Clarke
 Australia
10.53 w
200 metres[3] Tom Holligan
 Scotland
21.52 w Tahir Walsh
 Antigua and Barbuda
21.66 w Dalton Coppins
 New Zealand
21.75 w
400 metres[4] Clovis Asong
 England
47.76 Alphas Kishoyian
 Kenya
48.28 George Caddick
 England
48.99
800 metres[5] Timothy Kitum
 Kenya
1:49.32 GR Leonard Kosencha
 Kenya
1:50.62 Nigel Amos
 Botswana
1:51.07
1500 metres[6] Jonathan Sawe
 Kenya
3:48.38 Vincent Mutai
 Kenya
3:50.32 Robbie Farnham-Rose
 England
3:51.89
3000 metres[7] Wiliam Sitonik
 Kenya
7:57.03 GR Patrick Mwikya
 Kenya
8:00.81 Phillip Kipyeko
 Uganda
8:02.33
110 metres hurdles[8]
(wind: +3.4 m/s)
Andries van der Merwe
 South Africa
13.32 w Anthony Collins
 Australia
13.59 w Jack Edwards
 Australia
13.85 w
400 metres hurdles[9] Durgesh Kumar
 India
51.76 GR Johannes Pretorius
 South Africa
53.05 Kion Joseph
 Barbados
53.52
2000 metres steeplechase[10] Zak Seddon
 England
5:41.81 GR Zakaria Kiprotich
 Uganda
5:43.93 Katleho Dyoyi
 South Africa
5:56.91
4×100 metres relay[11]  South Africa (RSA)
Bradley Britz
Pieter Conradie
Johannes Pretorius
Andries van der Merwe
41.00  England (ENG)
Leon Reid
Elliot Safo
Joshua Street
Chijindu Ujah
41.06  Canada (CAN)
Steven Ajayi
Drelan Bramwell
Denray Jean-Jacques
Keefer Joyce
41.06
High jump[12] Willem van Schalkwyk
 South Africa
2.03 m Tom Henry
 Australia
2.00 m Michael Hartley
 England
1.90 m
Long jump[13] Angus Gould
 Australia
7.52 m w Elliot Safo
 England
7.41 m w Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye
 Turks and Caicos Islands
7.15 m w
Triple jump[14] Sithembiso Janki
 South Africa
14.85 m Jimi Tele
 England
14.60 m Gervais Tsoaoule-Mpazambe
 Cameroon
13.88 m
Shot put[15] Navjetdeep Singh
 India
18.81 m GR Ruan Combrinck
 South Africa
18.57 m Hezekiel Romeo
 Trinidad and Tobago
17.97 m
Discus throw[16] Gerhard de Beer
 South Africa
67.44 m GR Nicholas Percy
 Scotland
62.96 m Jan-Louw Kotze
 South Africa
62.90 m
Hammer throw[17] Callum Brown
 England
72.19 m GR Michael Painter
 England
68.64 m Nicholas Percy
 Scotland
64.96 m
Javelin throw[18] Morne Moolman
 South Africa
81.53 m GR Luke Cann
 Australia
75.21 m Adrian Williams
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
63.02 m

Girls

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[19]
(wind: +2.4 m/s)
Sophie Papps
 England
11.53 w Caroline Morin-Houde
 Canada
11.81 w Shaina Harrison
 Canada
11.81 w
200 metres
(wind: +2.2 m/s)
Dina Asher-Smith
 England
24.30 w Caroline Morin-Houde
 Canada
24.44 w Chloe Lambert
 Scotland
24.49 w
400 metres[20] Halima Nakaayi
 Uganda
57.16 Siwanthi Rathnayaka
 Sri Lanka
58.95 Alcindor Carinne
 Mauritius
59.71
800 metres Katie Snowden
 England
2:11.20 Rochelle Kennedy
 Australia
2:12.06 Vanessa Mcleod
 Canada
2:13.08
1500 metres[21] Ffion Price
 Wales
4:44.14 Sophie Linn
 Australia
4:45.33 Meropi Panagiotou
 Cyprus
4:47.47
3000 metres Emelia Gorecka
 England
9:14.08 Nancy Cheptegei
 Uganda
9:22.70 Norah Jeruto Tanui
 Kenya
9:24.02
100 metres hurdles[22]
(wind: +4.1 m/s)
Yasmin Miller
 England
13.30 w Abbie Taddeo
 Australia
13.70 w Deshaunda Morrison
 Canada
13.77 w
400 metres hurdles Tatum Shaw
 Australia
60.49 GR Hayley McLean
 England
61.76 Taylor Farquhar
 Canada
62.00
2000 metres steeplechase[23] Norah Jeruto Tanui
 Kenya
6:28.10 GR Nancy Cheptegei
 Uganda
6:36.41 Lilian Chemweno
 Kenya
6:41.80
4×100 metres relay  England (ENG)
Dina Asher-Smith
Yasmin Miller
Sophie Papps
Jazmin Sawyers
46.19  Canada (CAN)
Shaina Harrison
Alexa Hrycun
Caroline Morin-Houde
Marie-Colombe St-Pierre
46.58  Australia (AUS)
Margaret Gayen
Tatum Shaw
Abbie Taddeo
Sophie Taylor
48.10
High jump[24] Leontia Kallenou
 Cyprus
1.79 m Jeanelle Scheper
 Saint Lucia
1.76 m Reagan Dee
 Isle of Man
1.65 m
Long jump[25] Jazmin Sawyers
 England
6.27 m w Naa Anang
 Australia
5.94 m w Margaret Gayen
 Australia
5.87 m w
Triple jump Natalie Apikotoa
 Australia
12.55 m Greer Alsop
 New Zealand
12.39 m w Sabrina Allen
 Jamaica
11.42 m
Shot put[26] Sophie McKinna
 England
14.75 m Taylah Sengul
 Australia
14.10 m Chei Kenneally
 New Zealand
12.96 m
Discus throw[27] Taylah Sengul
 Australia
50.71 m GR Shadine Duquemin
 Jersey
49.25 m Navjeet Kaur Dhillon
 India
45.27 m
Hammer throw[28] Louisa James
 England
58.10 m Kimberley Reed
 Scotland
54.22 m Mikki Genge
 Australia
51.49 m
Javelin throw[29] Sune Wittmann
 Namibia
43.25 m Carys Mansfield
 Wales
39.18 m Shanica Yankey
 Dominica
37.39 m

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Isle of Man)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 England126321
2 South Africa62210
3 Australia48517
4 Kenya44210
5 India2013
6 Uganda1315
7 Scotland1225
8 Antigua and Barbuda1102
 Wales1102
10 Cyprus1012
11 Namibia1001
12 Canada0358
13 New Zealand0123
14 Jersey0101
 Saint Lucia0101
 Sri Lanka0101
17 Barbados0011
 Botswana0011
 Cameroon0011
 Dominica0011
 Isle of Man*0011
 Jamaica0011
 Mauritius0011
 Saint Kitts and Nevis0011
 Trinidad and Tobago0011
 Turks and Caicos Islands0011
Totals (26 entries)343434102

References

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Results
  1. ^ "Sports – Athletics". cyg2011.com. CYG 2011 Organising Committee. Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Athletics - 100m Men final
  3. ^ Athletics – 200m Men final
  4. ^ Athletics - 400m Men finak
  5. ^ Athletics – 800m Men final
  6. ^ Athletics - 1500m Men final
  7. ^ Athletics – 3000m Men
  8. ^ Athletics - 110m Hurdles Men final
  9. ^ Athletics – 400m Hurdles Men
  10. ^ Athletics - 2000m Steeplechase Men final
  11. ^ Athletics – 4 x 100m Relay Men
  12. ^ Athletics - High Jump Men final
  13. ^ Athletics - Long Jump Men Final
  14. ^ Triple Jump Men Final
  15. ^ Athletics – Shot Put Men
  16. ^ Athletics - Discus Throw Men final
  17. ^ Athletics – Hammer Throw Men
  18. ^ Athletics – Javelin Throw Men
  19. ^ Athletics - 100m Women final
  20. ^ Athletics - 400m Women final
  21. ^ Athletics - 1500m Women final
  22. ^ Athletics - 100m Hurdles Women final
  23. ^ Athletics - 2000m Steeplechase Women final
  24. ^ Athletics - High Jump Women final
  25. ^ Athletics - Long Jump Women final
  26. ^ Athletics - Shot Put Women final
  27. ^ Athletics - Discus Throw Women final
  28. ^ Athletics - Hammer Throw Women final
  29. ^ Athletics - Javelin Throw Women final
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