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International athletics championship event

The athletics competition at the Commonwealth Games was held in New Delhi, India between 6 and 14 October.

The track and field events took place between 6–12 October at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium while the marathon contests were held on a street course running through the city on 14 October.^[1]

A total of 46 athletics events were contested, which made it the sport with the second greatest number of medals on offer after the aquatics competition.

The programme was almost identical to that of the edition, with the sole exception being the men's 50&#;km race walk, which was dropped. As in , three men's and three women's disability athletics events were contested alongside the open competition.^[2]

Each of the Commonwealth Games Associations could send a maximum of three participants per event and a team of six for relay events.^[3]Kenya topped the medal table, with el