A look back at the Commonwealth history of the men’s 26.2 mile event
Britain had the first two runners in the first Games race when Scotland s Duncan Wright won by half a mile from England s Sam Ferris as the race finished with three laps of the ...

A look back at the history of the men’s long jump at the Commonwealth Games
The first Commonwealth long jump winner in Hamilton in 1930 was Canadian Len Hutton, the only one over seven metres in the competition. Canada retained the title in 1934 ...

It’s a marathon, not a sprint, as we take a look back at the history of the women’s 26.2 mile event at the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth was, as ever, slow off the mark and four years after Europe had held a women s championship over ...

We look back on the history of the women’s high jump event at the Commonwealth Games
The women debuted in 1934 in London and three days before she won hurdles gold the South African Marjorie Clark, who had set a world record as a 17 year-old in 1...

Wilhem Belocian carried on the French tradition of producing outstanding hurdlers think Guy Drut, Ladji Doucoure and the number one man in the world at the moment Pascal Martinot-Lagarde when he became the first junior athlete to run the 110m hurdl...

French hurdler Wilhem Belocian ended a dream junior career on the highest possible note by becoming the first teenager to break the 13-second barrier.