Russia has a new high jump star after Mikhail Akimenko proved the best in a tough competition to win gold at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene on Friday night.
A look back at the men’s pole vault event at the Commonwealth Games
The first ever Commonwealth vault in Hamilton in 1930 was a poor-standard event as Vic Pickard s 3.73m was suffcient for gold. Howard Ford of England matched that mark for a silv...
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...
Russia s Ekaterina Starygina threw 56.85m on her final attempt of the competition to seize women s javelin gold over defending champion Sofi Flink of Sweden.
Margaret Nyairera Wambui ran the race of her life, three seconds faster than her previous lifetime best which she set in Wednesday s semifinal, as she won over two laps of the track in 2:00.49.
Mikhail Akimenko of Russia won the men s high jump with a 2.24m clearance after an intense competition which saw the top four jumpers all record personal best clearances.
