The True Significance of Modern Athletics in Commonwealth Games
August 7, 2014 R K Gupta
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Usain BoltIn a huge shift of focus in past several years, there has been an increasing number of top athletes from the Caribbean and several erstwhile British colonies of African continent. Time was when US and Europe dominated athletics but when men and women from the Caribbean, East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa enrolled into […]
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India’s Relatively Poor Show in 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow
August 5, 2014 R K Gupta
Commonwealth Games, Indian Sport News, Indian wrestlingIn contrast to the last three Commonwealth Games at Manchester (2002), Melbourne (2006), and New-Delhi (2010), India’s 15 gold medal haul reflects a rather poor performance. Despite fielding a 215 member strong contingent with participation in all events except Netball, Rugby Sevens and Triathlon, overall performance fell short of expectations. Regardless, there were at least […]
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Pavey belies her 40 years by winning Commonwealth 5,000 metres bronze medal
August 3, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, JamaicaUsain Bolt may have captured the headlines by anchoring the Jamaican team to win the 4×100 metres relay gold medal on the final day of track and field athletics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but on the same evening, it was a veteran 40 year old athlete who proved that age and experience can […]
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Rudisha beaten in Commonwealth final as Amos sprints to gold
August 1, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, David RudishaWhen David Rudisha won the 800 metres gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, he not only set a new World record for the distance but it was described as possibly the best athletic performance of the entire games. Since then, he has been beset by injuries and at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games 800 […]
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Weightman joy at 1500 metres silver medal demonstrates importance of Commonwealth Games
July 31, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Laura WeightmanIn recent days, there has been much discussion concerning the relative value of the athletics programme in the 2014 British Commonwealth Games with the absence of Mo Farah, Usain Bolt and Christine Ohuruogu among others from their respective individual events. It is true that the current Glasgow games do not share the same prestige as […]
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Shelley overcomes African challenge to win 2014 Commonwealth Games marathon
July 28, 2014 John Welsh
Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Michael ShelleyIn winning the 2014 British Commonwealth Games men’s marathon in Glasgow, Australian Michael Shelley proved that the African domination at the distance is not insurmountable and the mere presence of athletes from the that continent should not spread fear into the remainder of a competitive field. For too long now, African athletes have tended to […]
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| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 61,240 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 61,110 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 55,370 |