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The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which mostly consists of territories of the former British Empire. 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.
Anthony Alexander Jarrett is a male former sprint and hurdling athlete from England.
Michael David Jones is a male retired English athlete who competed in the hammer throw.
Dalton Grant is a former high jumper.
Tania Murray Haigh is a former New Zealand high jumper and triple jumper. She won the gold medal in the women's high jump representing her country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and won eight national athletic championship titles.
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, the athletics event were held in Victoria, BC, Canada, at the Centennial Stadium on the grounds of the University of Victoria. A total of 44 events were contested, of which 22 by male 19 by female athletes. Furthermore, 2 men's disability events were held within the programme.
Michael Christopher Hill is a male English former javelin thrower who was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Robert ("Robbie") Ian Johnston is a former long-distance runner from New Zealand who competed twice at the Summer Olympic Games and once at the Commonwealth Games. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona he was ninth in his heat of the 5000m and did not advance to the final. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta he was 12th in his heat of the 10000m and did not advance to the final. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he did not finish the 10000m.
New Zealand sent a team of 134 competitors and 57 officials to the 1994 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The flagbearer at the opening ceremony was Brian Fowler, and at the closing ceremony was Stephen Petterson.
Eamonn Thomas Martin is an English former elite long distance runner.
Paul Head is a male retired male hammer thrower from England.
Moise Atsu Pomaney is a retired Olympic track and field athlete from Ghana. He specialized in the long jump and the triple jump.
Paul Stuart Mardle is a male former discus thrower.
Zane Robertson is a New Zealand middle and long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Robertson is the Oceanian record holder for the 10 kilometres and half marathon, and New Zealand record holder for the marathon. He also holds the area best in the road 10 miles. He is currently serving an eight-year ban for breaching two World Athletics anti-doping rules.
Sylvia Mildred Potts was a New Zealand middle-distance athlete who represented her country at two Commonwealth and one Olympic Games. She memorably fell two metres from the finish of the 1500 m final at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh while leading the race.
Joseph Millar is a New Zealand sprinter.
Colin Lousich was a New Zealand long-distance athlete who represented his country at the 1950 British Empire Games, and won one national athletics title.
Angus Edward Redmond was a New Zealand athlete and billiards player. He won six consecutive national discus throw titles and represented his country in that event at the 1950 British Empire Games. Later, he represented New Zealand at the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1964.
Gregor Ewen Cameron is a former New Zealand athlete who represented his country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Edward Osei-Nketia is a New Zealand sprinter.
References
- Athletes at the Games by John Clark, page 170 (1998, Athletics New Zealand) ISBN 0473-05498-1
- ↑ "Gus Nketia". New Zealand Olympic Committee . Retrieved 7 May 2017.
