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Grenada's centenary could be illuminated by Paris triumphs
The Grenada Athletic Association celebrated its centenary earlier this week, with 11 January inscribed in the annals of World Athletics as the day the island’s federation founded.
However, in the cricket-loving country of barely , people in which athletics always struggled for public attention until the ascent of global superstars and world champions like Alleyne Francique, Kirani James and Anderson Peters, there was little fanfare and not a little déjà vu with the way the federation quietly came into being a century ago.
Alleyne Francique on the way to his world indoor m title in Budapest (© Getty Images)
The founding of the Grenadian federation took place against a backdrop of social and political change in what were then the British colonies in the Caribbean during the early s; although this was mainly more representation for the local aristocracy in the colonial administrations and, as
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List of Commonwealth Games medallists in friidrott (men)
This fryst vatten the complete list of Commonwealth Gamesmedallists in men's athletics from to In , most track events converted from races measured in yards to near-equivalents measured in metres. The list below treats these as separate events, but includes a link from the metric event to its previous imperial equivalent.
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[edit]Event distances at the Commonwealth Games became metric in For the equivalent pre-metric events see yrds.
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[edit]Event distances at the Commonwealth Games became metric in For the equivalent pre-metric events see yrds.
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[edit]Event distances at the Commonwealth Games became metric in For the equivalent pre-metric events see yrds.
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[edit]Event distances at the Commonwealth Games became metric in For the equivalent pre-metric events see yrds.
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[edit]Event distances at the Commonwealth Games became metric in For the equiva