Talk:Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

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Track and Field The Track and Field competition will be held over seven days at the renowned Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Forty-eight gold medals, including six for Elite Athletes with a Disability (EAD), will be contested. An international standard eight-lane synthetic track will be installed on the MCG arena surface together with all jump and field event areas. The front straight will have the recommended minimum nine lanes and meet the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) standards. Competition Format Event Men Women 100m • • 100m EAD • • 200m • • 200m EAD • 400m • • 800m • • 800m EAD • 1,500m • • 5,000m • • 10,000m • • 3,000m Steeplechase • • 100m Hurdles • 110m Hurdles • 400m Hurdles • • Decathlon • Heptathlon • 4 x 100m Relay • • 4 x 400m Relay • •

Competition Format Event Men Women

Pole Vault • • High Jump • • Long Jump • • Triple Jump • • Shot Put • • Seated Shot Put EAD • Hammer • • Discus • • Seated Discus EAD • Javelin • •

Walks Held over two days of competition and with three gold medals on offer, the Walk events will be contested on a circuit close to central Melbourne, around the Docklands Precinct. Competition Format

Event Men Women

20km Walk • • 50km Walk •

Marathon There are two gold medals to be won for the Men's and Women's marathon on a fast but challenging course designed so that the athletes start and finish in the main stadium - the MCG. The course incorporates picturesque areas of Melbourne. Competition Format Event Men Women

Marathon • •

[edit] Splitting

Would anyone object if I split this into more sections? Perhaps track, field, walking, ead events, hurdles/steeplechase? CarlyPalmer 07:22, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I think the sporting world is moving towards keeping the EAD events within the relevant section, so perhaps they should be kept within track. Chris 08:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Sections are ok, more subpages are not. To shorten the vertical length of this article we could use columns, which would render this:

[edit] shot put men Medal Athlete Distance Gold Janus Robberts (RSA) 19.76m Silver Dorian Scott (JAM) 19.75m Bronze Scott Martin (AUS) 19.48m

[edit] shot put women Medal Athlete Distance Gold Valerie Vili (NZL) 19.66m Silver Vivian Chukwuemeka (NIG) 18.75m Bronze Cleopatra Borel-Brown (TRI) 17.54m

To address your second question, hurdles belong under track, and walk/marathon could be classified as road events. Punkmorten 08:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough about the sporting classifications, not an expert so just wrote what seemed sensible. It wasn't the vertical-ness of the page that concerned me but easy of navigation and editing. I think I'll wait until we get a few more comments. CarlyPalmer 08:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I also think many results pages split up into sub-sections by men and women (certainly most of the athletics pages for Olympics and World and European championships pages did the last time I looked at them). They then subdivide this into track and field events (with walks /marathons going into the track section. I think it would be a good idea to look how hose pages do things as they've always seemed easily readable to me and look good. Hopefully this link will work: 2005 World Championships in Athletics. Evil Eye 20:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)