Athletics at the Commonwealth Youth Games

Athletics is one of several sports contested at the quadrennial Commonwealth Youth Games. It has featured at every edition of the competition since its inauguration in 2000. Athletes under nineteen years old may compete (in contrast to the usual under-18 format of other youth athletics competitions).^[1]

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country
I	2000 ()	Edinburgh	Scotland
II	2004 ()	Bendigo	Australia
III	2008 ()	Pune	India
IV	2011 ()	Douglas	Isle of Man
V	2015 ()	Apia	Samoa

Games records

Men

Event	Record	Name	Nationality	Date	Games	Place	Ref
100 m	10.20 (+1.5 m/s)	Tlotliso Leotlela	South Africa	7 September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[2]
200 m	21.06	Julian Thomas	England	December 2004	2004 Games	Bendigo, Australia
400 m	45.83	Karabo Sibanda	Botswana	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[3]
800 m	1:46.05	Willy Tarbei	Kenya	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[4]
1500 m	3:39.80	Kumari Taki	Kenya	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[5]
3000 m	7:57.03	Wiliam Sitonik	Kenya	11 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[6]
110 m hurdles	13.77	Sam Baines	Australia	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
400 m hurdles	51.12	Rivaldo Leacock	Barbados	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[7]
2000 m steeplechase	5:41.81	Zak Seddon	England	10 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[8]
High jump	2.14 m	Tejaswin Shankar	India	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[9]
Pole vault	5.25 m	Blake Lucas	Australia	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
Long jump	7.60 m[lower-alpha 1]	Bernard Yeboah	England	December 2004	2004 Games	Bendigo, Australia	[10]
Triple jump	16.02 m	Jonathan Moore	England	December 2000	2004 Games	Edinburgh, Scotland
Shot put	20.12 m	Kevin Nedrick	Jamaica	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[11]
Discus throw	67.44 m	Gerhard de Beer	South Africa	10 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[12]
Hammer throw	72.19 m	Callum Brown	England	11 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[13]
Javelin throw	81.53 m	Morne Moolman	South Africa	11 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[14]
4 × 100 m relay	40.85	Ranil Jayawardena Roshan Chamara Silva Keith de Mel Shehan Abeyptiya	Sri Lanka	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
4 × 200 m relay	1:28.35	Ojeikere Precious Omokheoa Itsekiri Usheoritse Ese Idjesa Uruemu Adeyemi Sikiru	Nigeria	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa
4 × 400 m relay	3:13.32	Jithin Paul Dharambir Singh Inderjeet Parveen Kumar	India	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India

Women

Event	Record	Name	Nationality	Date	Games	Place	Ref
100 m	11.46	Shaunna Thompson	England	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
200 m	23.42	Shaunna Thompson	England	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
400 m	52.97	Racheal Nachula	Zambia	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
800 m	2:04.23	Caster Semenya	South Africa	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
1500 m	4:18.02	Amy Harding-Delooze	Australia	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[15]
3000 m	9:06.01	Mercy Cherono	Kenya	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
100 m hurdles	13.18 (+1.6 m/s)	Taylon Bieldt	South Africa	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[16]
400 m hurdles	1:00.49	Tatum Shaw	Australia	11 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[17]
2000 m steeplechase	6:28.10	Norah Jeruto Tanui	Kenya	9 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[18]
High jump	1.82 m	Marizca Gertenbach	South Africa	December 2000	2000 Games	Edinburgh, Scotland
Pole vault	4.05 m	Jade Ive	England	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
Long jump	6.06 m[lower-alpha 1]	Jessica Penney	New Zealand	December 2004	2004 Games	Bendigo, Australia	[10]
Triple jump	13.11 m	Shardha Ghule	India	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
Shot put	16.39 m	Grace Robinson	Australia	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa	[19]
Discus throw	50.71 m	Taylah Sengul	Australia	9 September 2011	2011 Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	[20]
Hammer throw	58.43	Sophie Hitchon	England	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India
Javelin throw	51.99 m	Annabel Thomson	Australia	December 2004	2004 Games	Bendigo, Australia
4 × 100 m relay	45.63	Joscelynn Hopeson Johnelle Gibbons Joey Duck Lucy Sargent	England	December 2004	2004 Games	Bendigo, Australia
4 × 200 m relay	1:41.60	Adiakerehwa Blessing Uche Brown Etim Aniekeme Alphonsus Abolaji Omotayo Oluwaseun	Nigeria	September 2015	2015 Games	Apia, Samoa
4 × 400 m relay	3:42.02	Chinchu Jose Anu Mariam Jose Arya Charivila M. R. Poovamma	India	October 2008	2008 Games	Pune, India

Notes

1. Second place, but the first place result was wind assisted.^[10]

References

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