Meet the Longines 2022 Commonwealth Games Team
Longines leads Birmingham 2022 as Official Partner and Timekeeper, along with a standout Longines athletic team.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games have begun in Birmingham, after the Longines Countdown Clock counted down the seconds in the heart of the English city’s Centenary Square.
It welcomes 4500 exceptional sportspeople from 72 nations and territories who are competing in 283 medal events across 19 sports and eight fully integrated para-sports that will be timed, measured and recorded with high precision by Longines as Official Partner and Timekeeper.
Also known as the Friendly Games, this favourite sporting spectacle is celebrated for its inclusivity being the first international multi-sport event to regard athletes with a disability as full members of their national teams, besides featuring an equal number of men’s and women’s medal events.
At Birmingham 2022, the Swiss watch brand shines the spotlight on three sporting talents to represent the Longines 2022 Commonwealth Games Team.
Alice Kinsella
Birmingham native and gymnast Alice Kinsella has devoted herself to gymnastics since she was three. The 21-year-old is one of the most exciting competitors to watch having distinguished herself at the 2018 edition with a haul of three medals: individual gold on the beam apparatus, silver in the team event and bronze in the all-around competition. Kinsella is the first British woman to win European gold on the team apparatus in 2019, alongside another win and medal as a Team GB member in Tokyo 2021.
Josh Kerr
Born in Edinburgh, the British middle-distance runner has distinguished himself on the track since 2015. Winning gold at the European Junior Championships, the trailblazing athlete captured bronze in Tokyo 2021, prior to setting a new British and European indoor mile record in Boston this February while breaking the European mile record set in 1983 with his personal time of 3:48.87 that simultaneously set a British 1500 m record. “Longines is associated with excellence in timing and I am proud and excited to become the newest member of the Longines family.”
Peter Bol
The extraordinary Peter Bol aims to become the greatest 800 m runner in the world. Growing in Australia after emigrating from Sudan as a child, he excelled in basketball but was persuaded to shift his attention to track where he also showed great promise. After winning the junior men’s 800 m event in 2015, Bol continues to defy stereotypes, overcome obstacles and break records—the latest being the Diamond League event in Paris, where he bested his Australian National record of 1:44 in the 800 m run.
“We are extremely proud of our partnership with the Commonwealth Games, which extends all the way back to the 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games, and more recently the Games in Glasgow in 2014 and on the Australian Gold Coast in 2018. The 2022 edition in Birmingham promises to be a highly anticipated event once again this year, “ said Longines Vice President of Marketing Matthieu Baumgartner.
On top of that, Longines has been bestowed the coveted, exclusive status as the “Inaugural Partner of the Commonwealth Sport Movement” in the first ever multi-Commonwealth Games partnership in history with the Commonwealth Games Federation—continuing on as Official Partner and Official Timekeeper in providing all the timing and scoring equipment at Victoria 2026 and the 2030 Commonwealth Games.
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