The Commonwealth Games is 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,has successively run every four years since. The event was 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 became the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
Guyana has competed in seventeen of the twenty previous Commonwealth Games. British Guiana was one of the eleven countries to compete in the first Games in 1930,and participated under that name until 1962. The country gained independence in 1966 as Guyana,and subsequently competed under that name.
David Stanley Norris is a former New Zealand athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump.
The Commonwealth Paraplegic Games were an international,multi-sport event involving athletes with a disability from the Commonwealth countries. The event was sometimes referred to as the Paraplegic Empire Games and British Commonwealth Paraplegic Games. Athletes were generally those with spinal injuries or polio. The Games were an important milestone in the Paralympic sports movement as they began the decline of the Stoke Mandeville Games' dominating influence. The event was first held in 1962 and disestablished in 1974. The Games were held in the country hosting the Commonwealth Games for able-bodied athletes,a tradition eventually fully adopted by the larger Olympic and Paralympic movements.
Ernest Leighton "Ernle" Haisley is a Jamaican former high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
In 1956 Haisley took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He reached a height of 1.96 metres in the final,placing him 15th.
Haisley represented Jamaica at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games winning gold in the high jump with a height of 6 ft 9 in. This remained the Commonwealth Games high jump record until 1962.
In the following year,he represented British West Indies at the 1959 Pan American Games,winning bronze with a height of 2.00 metres. His final success in major competition was at the Athletics at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games in Kingston,Jamaica,where he won bronze with a height of 1.94 metres.
The men's high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 24 November 1962.
The women's 100 yards at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 24 November and Monday 26 November 1962.
The men's long jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 24 November 1962.
The women's high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Monday 26 November 1962.
The men's 120 yards hurdles at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Thursday 29 November 1962.
The men's marathon at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Thursday 29 November 1962.
The men's triple jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Thursday 29 November 1962.
The women's long jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 1 December 1962.
Percy Francis Hobson was an Australian high jumper. He won the men's event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth,making him the first Indigenous Australian to earn a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Crawford William Fairbrother was a Scottish high jumper. Born in Paisley,Renfrewshire,Scotland,his father was Scottish Athletics Championship medallist in high jump in the 1920s and 1930s.
Patrick Etolu was a Ugandan high jumper. He was born in Soroti District,Eastern Region,Uganda. He won the high jump at the 1953 Central African Games.
Edward Laboran is a former Papua New Guinean high jumper.
John Lawrence Taitt was a British sprint hurdler. He was born in Georgetown,Demerara-Mahaica,British Guiana.
John David Howell is a former British long jumper.
The 1959 British West Indies Championships was the third edition of the track and field competition between British colony nations in the Caribbean. It was held in Georgetown in British Guiana. A total of 27 events were contested,twenty-one by men and six by women. This was the first time that women had been able to compete at the event. Three new men's events were added to the programme:3000 metres steeplechase,half marathon,and the 3000 metres walk. The latter two were the first road running and racewalking events to be included.
