It's the turn of the men's 3 miles/5000m as we take an event-by-event look back the Commonwealth Games

England's Stan Tomlin narrowly won the first three miles title in 1930 as 15 yards covered the first six and the nation fared even better in 1934 as they gained a clean sweep led by Walter Beavers.

New Zealander Cecil Matthews gained a distance double in 1938 with an exciting win over England’s Peter Ward.

England again clean-swept in 1954 as Chris Chataway led home Fred Green, who had beaten him in the AAA Championships when both had shared a world-record time. Frank Sando took bronze and England also had a fifth as teams were allowed four competitors.

In 1966 Kip Keino won with the fourth fastest time ever of 12:57.4. Allan Rushmer edged 10,000m champion Naftali Temu to gain England’s first medal in this event for 12 years.

As the distance changed to 5000m in 1970 home favourite Ian Stewart’s driving 55-second last lap gave him a memorable victory in a European record 13:22.8 in Edinburgh. Another Scot, Ian McCa? erty, was second ahead of Keino.

Four years later Ben Jipcho edged Brendan Foster in a near world record 13:14.3. Foster broke the British record and went third on the all-time list and Dave Black added a bronze to his earlier silver in the 10,000m.

In 1978, Foster won bronze after winning the 10,000m as new world record-holder Henry Rono of Kenya was too strong for his rivals.

The 1982 race wasn’t of the same standard as the man who broke Rono’s world record, Dave Moorcroft (pictured), also inherited his title and he won by almost three seconds from English team-mate Nick Rose.

The 1986 race was an even lower standard event without boycotting Kenyans and other Africans and that allowed a top class English 1-2-3. Steve Ovett uniquely added Commonwealth 5000m gold to his Olympic 800m and European 1500m titles in outsprinting European medallists-to-be Jack Buckner and Tim Hutchings.

The 1990 race was a classic race of falls, twists and turns in which unheralded Aussie Andrew Lloyd came from a long way back to edge Olympic champion John Ngugi with his final stride. Ian Hamer who was not even seeded into the UK Championships A final in the summer, beat better-known names to snatch a bronze for Wales.

Rob Denmark put England back on top in 1994, John Nuttall was a close third and Jon Brown occupied the fourth slot he was to fill in two Olympic marathons.

For the first time in 36 years in 1998, the three miles or 5000m was devoid of a Brit on the podium. Kenyan world-record holder Daniel Komen won easily and the nation did even better in 2002 with their first clean sweep as Sammy Kipketer edged Ben Limo.

Augustine Choge won a cracking 2006 race when Kenya took three of the first four with Craig Mottram breaking 13 minutes to gain silver in front of a roaring Melbourne crowd. Mo Farah was a well-beaten ninth, 44 seconds down on the winning time of 12:56.41.

Kenya failed to make it four golds on the trot in 2010 as Ugandan Moses Kipsiro beat former world champion Eliud Kipchoge by just seven hundredths of a second.

Gold medal winners 3 miles

1930 Stan Tomlin (ENG) 14:27.4
1934 Walter Beavers (ENG) 14:32.6
1938 Cecil Matthews (NZL) 13:59.6
1950 Len Eyre (ENG) 14:23.6
1954 Chris Chataway (ENG) 13:35.2
1958 Murray Halberg (NZL) 13:15.0/13:14.96
1962 Murray Halberg (NZL) 13:34.2/13:34.15
1966 Kip Keino (KEN) 12:57.4

Gold medal winners 5000m

1970 Ian Stewart (SCO) 13:22.8
1974 Ben Jipcho (KEN) 13:14.4
1978 Henry Rono (KEN) 13:23.04
1982 Dave Moorcroft (ENG) 13:33.00
1986 Steve Ovett (ENG) 13:24.11
1990 Andrew Lloyd (AUS) 13:24.86
1994 Rob Denmark (ENG) 13:23.00
1998 Daniel Komen (KEN) 13:22.57
2002 Sammy Kipketer (KEN) 13:13.51
2006 Augustine Choge (KEN) 12:56.41
2010 Moses Kipsiro (UGA) 13:31.25

British medallists

Gold: Stan Tomlin (Eng: 1930), Walter Beavers (Eng: 1934), Len Eyre (Eng: 1950), Chris Chataway (Eng: 1954), Ian Stewart (Sco: 1970), Dave Moorcroft (Eng: 1982), Steve Ovett (Eng: 1986), Rob Denmark (Eng: 1994)
Silver: Cyril Allen (Eng: 1934), Peter Ward (Eng: 1938), Fred Green (Eng: 1954), Brendan Foster (Eng: 1974), Nick Rose (Eng: 1982), Jack Buckner (Eng: 1986)
Bronze: Jack Winfield (Eng: 1930), Alec Burns (Eng: 1934), Tony Chivers (Eng: 1950), Frank Sando (Eng: 1954), Allan Rushmer (Eng: 1970), Dave Black (Eng: 1974), Brendan Foster (Eng: 1978), Tim Hutchings (Eng: 1986), Ian Hamer (Wal: 1990), John Nuttall (Eng: 1994)
Most successful athlete: Murray Halberg is the only double champion
Most successful Briton: Ian Stewart is the only British winner who ran the event more than once, although Brendan Foster is the only double medallist – and he also won medals at 1500m and 5000m

» Find other event-by-event histories here and an overall history of the Commonwealth Games here