Glasgow 2026 to have record medal tally and mile race

The ten-sport Video games programme will based mostly at 4 venues inside an eight-mile hall of the town and be held throughout 10 days from 23 July to 2 August.

Whereas the general variety of sports activities has halved from 20 in Birmingham in 2022 to fight rising internet hosting prices and time calls for, the schedule stays intense.

A complete of 26 biking golds might be fought for on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, with eight of these in Para-track biking. That’s double the quantity on supply three years in the past.

And 56 might be on supply at Tollcross Worldwide Swimming Centre, with the boys’s 800m and ladies’s 1500m freestyle races included for the primary time.

Omitting the 1500m – during which Scotland’s Josh Kerr and Laura Muir are Olympic medallists – is a shock transfer.

It has been changed by an occasion final run in 1966.

Organisers say the Commonwealth Mile – the equal of 1609m – is a tribute to ‘The Miracle Mile’ run on the 1954 staging in Vancouver.

On that event, England’s Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy competed two months after the previous grew to become the primary athlete to run a sub-four-minute mile.

“The mile is the quintessential Commonwealth athletics occasion whose return I very a lot welcome,” stated World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who instructed the occasion to Glasgow organisers.

“From 1930 by means of to 1966, the mile was the blue-riband occasion of every Video games and the magic of the mile continues to resonate.

“A ticket to look at its Commonwealth ultimate might be one of many must-have seats in Glasgow subsequent yr.”

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