Editing 2002 Commonwealth Games (section)

== Highlights ==
[[File:City of Manchester Stadium 2002.jpg|thumb|The [[City of Manchester Stadium]] during the Games]]

* Australian [[Ian Thorpe]] set a world record in the 400-metre freestyle [[swimming (sport)|swimming]].<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/swimming/newsid_2166000/2166261.stm|title=Thorpe's six of the best|last=Anon|date=2 August 2002|publisher=BBC|work=BBC Sport|access-date=6 October 2010}}</ref>
* English swimmer [[Zoë Baker]] set a world record in the 50-metre breaststroke.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/swimming/newsid_2164000/2164763.stm|title=Baker charges to gold|last=Anon|date=31 July 2002|work=BBC Sport|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 October 2010}}</ref>
* English track athlete [[Paula Radcliffe]] won her first major gold medal in the 5,000 metres,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/athletics/newsid_2157000/2157700.stm|title=Radcliffe roars to elusive gold|last=Anon|date=28 July 2002|work=BBC Sport|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 October 2010}}</ref> to record a time of 14:31.42, over 20 seconds ahead of silver medallist [[Edith Masai]] of [[Kenya]] and 1 minute 21 seconds faster than the inaugural running of the event four years earlier.
* In the final of the 100&nbsp;m for men ([[athletics (sport)|athletics]]), the two English favourites ([[Dwain Chambers]] & [[Mark Lewis-Francis]]) both pulled up with injuries. The race was won by [[Kim Collins]] of [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], winning the country's first Commonwealth title.
*[[Simon Whitfield]] of [[Canada]], the 2000 Olympic champion and the 2008 Olympic silver medallist, won gold in the [[triathlon]].
* On the last day of track competition, England won gold in both the men's 4×100 and 4×400 relays by tiny margins, recording the same time (38.62) as the [[Jamaica]]n quartet in sprint relay and holding off a fast finishing [[Wales|Welsh]] team by 1/100 of a second in the longer race, with a winning time of 3:00.40.
* The women's 4×400 relay was won by Australia after the favoured Jamaican team dropped the baton.
* In winning the triple jump England's [[Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)|Jonathan Edwards]] simultaneously held the World, Olympic, European and Commonwealth championships and the World record. He would lose the European title a week later in Munich.
* Another world record was set in the 4000-metre team pursuit at the [[track cycling]] by the Australian team. [[Scotland|Scot]] [[Chris Hoy]] took the [[individual time trial]] and 19-year-old [[Nicole Cooke]] of Wales won the women's cycling road race.
* South African swimmer [[Natalie du Toit]] created history. As well as winning her events in the newly included [[disabled]] swimming event, the 18-year-old, missing the lower section of her left leg, made the final of the 800-metre able-bodied freestyle event in one of a small number of disabled sporting events integrated into the games.
*In gymnastics England's [[Beth Tweddle]] and Kanukai Jackson took gold in the [[asymmetric bars]] and all around events respectively. [[Herodotos Giorgallas]] also won the first gymnastics gold ever for [[Cyprus]] when tying with [[Scotland]]'s [[Steve Frew]].
*The host broadcaster of the games was the [[BBC]] and the International Broadcast Centre was located at the [[Manchester College of Arts and Technology]].