The Birmingham Commonwealth Games delivered several outstanding performances across athletics, swimming, cycling, weightlifting and para sport.
The 2022 edition witnessed four world records and 96 Commonwealth Games records, reflecting the quality of the competition and the depth of its integrated sporting event.
Here is a look at some of the most significant records established during the Games.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem produced one of the defining moments of the athletics programme by winning the men’s javelin with a 90.18m throw. It was a personal best and a Commonwealth Games record, while also making Nadeem the first South Asian javelin thrower to cross 90 metres.
Mirabai Chanu dominated the women’s 49kg competition with an 88kg snatch, 113kg clean and jerk and 201kg total. All three were Games records, while her snatch was also a Commonwealth record.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga won the men’s 67kg weightlifting gold with a Games-record total of 300kg at Birmingham 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI
Jeremy Lalrinnunga established Games records in the men’s 67kg snatch and total with 140kg and 300kg, respectively.
Achinta Sheuli followed with records of 143kg in the men’s 73kg snatch and 313kg overall as India collected three weightlifting gold medals.
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Madison Wilson, Kiah Melverton, Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus powered Australia to the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay title in 7:39.29.
The quartet surpassed China’s previous world record of 7:40.33, set at the Tokyo Olympics, by 1.04 seconds.
Titmus completed the record swim with a blistering anchor leg.
Nigeria’s Goodness Chiemerie Nwachukwu produced two world-record throws in the women’s discus F42-44/61-64 competition.
Competing in the F42 classification, she improved her own world mark with each of her first two attempts and eventually won gold with 36.56m.
Jereem Richards (R) set a Commonwealth Games record of 19.80 seconds while defending his men’s 200m title at Birmingham 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP
Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards successfully defended his Commonwealth title with a commanding 19.80-second run in the men’s 200m.
Richards erased the long-standing Games record of 19.97 set by Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks at Victoria 1994.
Scotland’s Eilish McColgan thrilled the home crowd by winning the women’s 10,000m in a Games-record 30:48.60.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo produced a similarly authoritative performance in the men’s race, clocking 27:09.19 to establish another Games record. Kiplimo later completed the distance double by winning the 5000m.
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Titmus dominated the women’s freestyle events at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.
Ariarne Titmus celebrates winning the 400m gold. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
The Australian set Games records while winning the 200m in 1:53.89, the 400m in 3:58.06 and the 800m in 8:13.59. She then anchored Australia to the world record in the 4x200m freestyle relay.
Australia’s Katja Dedekind won the women’s 50m freestyle S13 title in 26.56 seconds.
Her performance was 0.11 seconds quicker than the previous world record set by Italy’s Carlotta Gilli in 2018. It was Dedekind’s first long-course world record and came just weeks after she had won the world title in Madeira.
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Published on Jul 21, 2026