England Chef and Team Manager confident after nine-day Delhi visit

ENGLAND’S CHEF DE MISSION for the Delhi Commonwealth Games, Craig Hunter, has today underlined his confidence that England will send a full team to the Games which start in 200 days.

Hunter was speaking on his return from an exhaustive nine-day visit to the Indian capital, where he and a five-person delegation that included Sir Andrew Foster, the Chairman, and Ann Hogbin, the Chief Executive, of Commonwealth Games England, visited virtually every competition venue, while also observing the hockey World Cup and tests events in archery and boxing. (more…)

The XIX Commonwealth Games will be held in Delhi in October 2010. The event will feature 17 sports that 71 teams will participate in. Athletics is a major component of this 4 yearly event and includes track and field (including events for athletes with a disability), marathon, and walk.

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Welsh Shot putter Ryan Spencer-Jones made his intentions for the Delhi games clear as he threw a new personal best and Commonwealth Games qualifying mark of 17.92m at the UWIC Inter-University match on Sunday 7th March. The measure handsomely beat the qualifying criteria, set at 17.75m, and is testimony to the state of form of Spencer-Jones, who has now improved his personal best from 2009 (16.79m) on three occasions indoors in 2010 – 17.32m in January, 17.57m in February and now 17.92m in March.

Ryan is coached by Welsh Javelin record holder Nigel Bevan, who also coaches Discus champion Brett Morse. Bevan represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, and competed for Wales at the 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games.