Athletics stars to compete at Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games
Athletics royals will be scattered across the playing field at the 11,000-seat Scotstoun Stadium for the athletics competition.
Two-time world champion in women’s 200 meters and five-time Olympic medalist. Sherika Jackson leads the Jamaican team, and the England team is going to field both Dina Asher-Smiththree-time Olympic medalist and silver medalist in the women’s 4x100m in Paris 2024, Amy Hunt.
The men’s sprinters will include athletes such as Ferdinand Omanya from Kenya, who will be aiming to become the first African to win back-to-back 100m titles at the Commonwealth Games.
His compatriot Mary Moraawill be among athletes covering longer distances.
Olympic bronze medalist from Paris eyeing defense Women’s 800m title but in the distance there will be a world silver medalist, Georgia Hunter Bell a member of the England team who is hot on her heels, as well as a compatriot and 2025 world champion on the distance, Lilian Odira.
Vera Cherotichworld champion Women’s 3000m steeplechase And Timothy Cheruiyot2019 men’s 1500 m The world champion is also part of Kenya’s 52-member athletics team.
Home country athletes competing on the track include a two-time Olympic medalist. Josh Kerr who will compete in the Commonwealth Mile following his upcoming attempt at the mile world record at the 2026 London Diamond League. It will be countered by an Australian breakthrough. men, middle distance star Cameron Myerswho broke the world record for the fastest mile by a sixteen-year-old in 2023.
Eilis McColgan, in the meantime, I hope to repeat it victory at 10,000 m in Birmingham, where the crowd drove the Scot to his first major international title.
England team Katarina Johnson-ThompsonOlympic heptathlon silver medalist from Paris 2024 is aiming for three Commonwealth titles in the seven-event event.
Olympic, World and Commonwealth star, gold medal winner in javelin throw. Neeraj Chopra will lead India’s fight at the athletics stadium. He will face reigning Olympic champion Pakistan. Arshad Nadeemand bronze medalist at Paris 2024, Grenada Anderson Peters in one of the best field competitions.
Female hammer olympic champion, Camryn Rogers also competes for Canada, and is also an Olympic champion in men’s hammer, Ethan Katzberg and the country’s most decorated Olympic champion among men, sprinter Andre de Grasse, seven-time Olympic medalist.
As you jump, keep an eye on the Olympic high jump gold medalist and world champion. Hamish Kerr from New Zealand, Australian Olympic silver medalist and 2025 world champion. Nicola Olislagers and her compatriot Nina KennedyOlympic champion in women’s pole vault.
And, soaring even higher, he will become a two-time Commonwealth champion in pole vaulting. Kurtis Marshall. Marshall became the first person since 2023 to win Mondo Duplantis and is determined to win a third Commonwealth title.