Here's F-J in our guide to the Heroes of the Commonwealth Games.

Crawford Fairbrother

Fairbrother competed in four British (Empire and) Commonwealth Games high jump events and finished seventh in 1958, eighth in 1962, and fourth in 1966. He did not set a mark in 1970. In all four British (Empire and) Commonwealth Games he represented Scotland.

Personal Best: HJ - 2.07 (1964)

Brendan Foster

Foster was one of Britain's most popular athletes.

After an impressive start to the 1970 season, he qualified for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, finishing second in the 1,500m at the English selection trials in Leicester.

In the 1,500m final in Edinburgh, Dick Quax (New Zealand) gained an immediate lead, but Foster and Kenyan Kip Keino, who were both near the back of the pack early on, moved through the field to position themselves behind Quax as they passed the finish line for the first time.

Keino and Quax broke away from the field soon afterwards, and the rest of the runners in the field found themselves fighting for the bronze medal. Foster seemed to have it sewn up entering the straight, but he had to hold off a late charge from Scotland's Peter Stewart before securing the bronze medal in three minutes 40.6 seconds.

At the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki, Foster doubted his chances if the 1,500m was run at slow pace with a sprint finish, and consequently made a pact with Francesco Arese (Italy), who had similar concerns, to jointly ensure that the race was run at an honest pace. The tactic seemed to work to their mutual satisfaction, as Arese won gold, while Foster took bronze in a personal best time of three minutes 39.2 seconds.

Steve Frew

Frew made his fifth Commonwealth Games appearance in Melbourne in 2006, an incredible feat for a gymnast.

He received his first Scottish senior cap at the 1991 Home Internationals and gained over 40 junior and senior caps in his career.

Frew first represented Scotland as an eight-year-old. He jointly holds the record of winning eight consecutive Scottish Championships men's senior titles.

At the age of five Frew joined his local gymnastics class and made the Scottish Junior Team aged eight. He became Scottish Champion throughout every age group he participated in, including eight Scottish Junior titles and eight consecutive Scottish Championship senior men's titles.

Dawn Fraser

Born 1937, Fraser became the first swimmer to win three successive gold medals for the same event (100m freestyle) at the 1964 Olympics.

During her ten year career she set 27 world records and was the first woman to swim 100 metres in under a minute.

Born into a large family in Balmain, Sydney, Fraser showed an early talent for swimming. She won the first of her numerous Australian titles in 1955.

In 1956, aged only 19, Fraser became a national heroine when she won two gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, for the 100-metre freestyle and the freestyle relay. In Rome in 1960 she won gold for the 100 metre freestyle, repeating the feat in 1964 in Tokyo, despite the fact that she had only just recovered from a car crash in which her mother was killed.

She also set a new world record in each of her successive 100 metre freestyle wins, cutting her time to 59.5 seconds in 1964.

However, immediately after her Olympic success in 1964 her career was interrupted. At the Tokyo Olympics she had unwisely appeared at a parade against the rules and had also been involved in a prank to capture the flag of a competing nation. As a result she was banned from competition for ten years, bringing an abrupt end to her string of successes.

In addition to her other swimming titles, Fraser has also won eight Commonwealth Games medals and was awarded the MBE in 1967.

Cathy Freeman

Freeman's role in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games embedded her name forever in Olympic history. She lit the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in an opening ceremony that celebrated both a century of women's participation and the heritage of indigenous Australians.

Eleven nights later she fulfilled a mission that had absorbed her life: she won the 400m final, becoming the athlete of the Games.

The weight of expectations she carried into the race was enormous. Apart from the hopes of a nation, there was an extra load - 200 years of history. Fourth out of the blocks, she appeared to catapult herself clear of her rivals in the straight. Later she danced through a victory lap, carrying Australian and Aboriginal flags. Not since 1964, when Betty Cuthbert was successful over the same distance in Tokyo, had an Australian woman won a flat race on the track at the Games.

Freeman grew up in Mackay, Queensland, and was a natural athlete from early childhood. Asked at 14 by a vocational officer what she wanted to do after school days, she said: "I want to win gold medals at the Olympic Games." And after that? "I don't care."

At 16 she won the 4 x 100m relay gold at the Auckland Commonwealth Games. At the Atlanta 1996 Games she became the first Aboriginal medallist, finishing second to Marie-Jose Perec in the 400m. After that she won back-to-back world championships over the distance in 1997 and 1999.

Billy Gilliland

Canadian National Team and Olympic Coach 1987 - 1999

World's #1 Ranked Mixed Doubles Player 1985 - 1987

Commonwealth Gold Medalist 1986

All England Champion 1985

Winner of 44 International Open Championships

Gilliland is a former badminton player from Scotland who excelled from in the mid 1970s and 80s. Although he won the Scottish national singles title in 1979, Gilliland was a doubles specialist at international level, with his greatest success coming in mixed doubles.

Gilliland won mixed doubles at the All-England Championships with England's Nora Perry in 1985. He had previously reached the All-England final in both men's doubles and mixed doubles in 1982. He was also a mixed doubles bronze medalist at the 1977 IBF World Championships with Joanna Flockhart.

Though he won numerous tournaments abroad, perhaps Gilliland's most impressive badminton accomplishment was sharing twelve consecutive Scottish national mixed doubles titles equally with two partners, between 1976 and 1987. With regular partner Dan Travers, he won nine Scottish national men's doubles titles during that period, and men's doubles at the Commonwealth Games in 1986.

Helen Golden

Full name: Helen Lanita Golden (-Hogarth)

Born: May 16, 1953 (Age 60) in Edinburgh

Affiliations: Edinburgh Southern Harriers, Edinburgh (GBR)

Sport: Athletics

Personal Best: 200 - 23.14 (1973).

Elenor Gordon

Commonwealth Games Record

Gold 1950 Auckland 220 yd breaststroke

Gold 1954 Vancouver 220 yd breaststroke

Gold 1954 Vancouver 3×110 yd medley

Bronze 1950 Auckland 3×110 yd medley

Helen Orr Gordon, or, as she became known, Elenor Gordon, was born in Glasgow in 1933 and, sixteen years later, became Scotland's youngest ever gold medallist when she won the 220-yard breaststroke in the Empire Games in Auckland.

Gordon's success in 1950 ensured that she was in the British team for the Helsinki Olympic Games two years later. On this occasion she was up against swimmers from the relatively new Butterfly class and, in a final tainted by controversy, she finished third behind two swimmers using the faster butterfly technique.

Sarah Gourlay

Gourley was first capped in 1983 and retired from the international scene in 2005 after captaining her country in their successful defence of the women's international title in Leamington Spa.

She won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and golds at the World Championships in 1985 and 1992. Her husband David also won gold at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and 1984 World Championships.

She took on the role of team manager of the Scotland women's squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia.

Sally Gunnell

Gunnell was the British heroine of the 1992 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles. She became world champion and world record holder for the same event in 1993.

Born in 1966 and educated in Chigwell, Essex, Gunnell was the best junior long-jumper in England at the age of 13. A tall athlete, she began an impressive series of international wins in track events with a gold medal for the 100 metre hurdles in the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Specialising in the 400 metre hurdles and the 4 × 400 metre relay, she won two golds in the 1990 Commonwealth Games and a silver (for the hurdles) in the 1991 world championships. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, as captain of the British women's team, Gunnell won the gold medal for the hurdles and a bronze for the relay.

Gunnell's successes continued in 1993, when she became world champion and world record holder in the 400 metre hurdles with a time of 52.74 seconds and won a bronze medal for the 4 × 400 metre relay in the world championships. She was rewarded by being appointed an MBE.

In 1993-94 she became European Cup champion, Commonwealth champion, and World Cup champion in the hurdles.

However, the 1996 Olympics brought disappointment with a recurrent leg injury destroying her hopes of winning a medal for her country.

Jonathan Hammond

Originally from Aberdeen, Hammond now lives in West Virginia and works as the University's head rifle coach.

He began competing internationally at the age of 16. He started shooting at the age of nine at Ardvreck School in Perthshire where he learned to shoot under Tim Verlander.

By the age of 13 he had won the Scottish U18 Championship. At 17 Hammond won the 1998 World Junior Championship in Barcelona in Prone Rifle and went on to win a European Junior Bronze medal in 2000.

Hammond also became Scottish Champion in 2000 and 2003 and 50m prone champion at the 2012 Commonwealth Games.

Tommy Hampson

In 1930 Hampson revealed himself as a medal prospect for the 1932 Olympic Games.

Victories in the AAA Championships, the international match against France and at the British Empire Games, where he beat a class field by 20 yards in one minute 52.6 seconds, established him as one of the world's leading half-milers.

In 1931, two international victories and a second AAA title consolidated his position and in 1932, his third successive win the AAA 880 yards was followed, later in the afternoon, by a second place in the 440 yards.

In Los Angeles, Hampson qualified comfortably for the Games final, where he wisely declined to follow the pace of Canadian Phil Edwards, who led at the half-way mark at 52.3 seconds with Hampson trailing by some 20 metres.

Edwards inevitably faded and Hampson then had to content with another Canadian, Alex Wilson, but he won the battle down the home straight and took gold with a new world record of one minute 49.7 seconds. Later in the Games, Hampson won a silver medal in the 4×400 metres relay and then closed his track career as a member of the 4×880 yards relay team in the British Empire versus USA match in San Francisco.

Personal Bests: 440y - 50.2 (1932); 800 - 1:49.7 (1932); Mile - 4:17.0 (1931)

Peter Heatly

Auckland 1950: Gold, Silver
Vancouver 1954: Gold, Bronze
Cardiff 1958: Gold

Born in Leith, Heatly heavily dominated the diving circuit for 21 years. He began his career at Leith Amateur Swimming Club, teaching the skills to himself.

He was the East of Scotland Champion (1937-1939) and Scottish Champion (1946-1948) in diving and represented Scotland and Great Britain around the world, winning British Empire and Commonwealth Games Gold medals for Scotland in the 3m springboard (1954) and 10m high board (1950 and 1958). He is also a former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation.

David Hemery

In 1966, Hemery set a British record for the high hurdles of 13.9 seconds, won the Commonwealth title in Jamaica and had his first major win in the 440 yards hurdles at the IC4A Championships in New York.

After missing the 1967 outdoor season, Hemery won the 1968 NCAA title and twice reduced the British 400 metres hurdles record during the course of his Olympic build-up.

At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, he broke the British record in the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles and then set a world record in the final, finishing in 48.1 seconds.

At the end of the 1968 season, Hemery was awarded the MBE and went up to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, where he showed a remarkable talent as a decathlete. By the end of 1969 he was ranked seventh on the UK all-time list.

In 1969 he improved his own British 110 metres hurdles record to 13.6 seconds while the highlights of 1970 were the successful defense of his Commonwealth title and win at the World Student Games. After a rest from competition in 1971, Hemery returned to the track in 1972 and in the Olympic final in Munich he ran 48.5 seconds to finish third. He also won a silver medal in the 4×400 metre relay.

Ron Hill

Born in 1938 and brought up in Accrington, Dr Hill MBE was one of the world-class British distance runners of his generation.

He set several world best times during his career, his proudest achievement being the 1970 Commonwealth Games marathon in Edinburgh which he won in a world record time of 2 hours 9 minutes 28 seconds.

Hill ran his 115th and final marathon in 1996. But the legendary Lancashire athlete continues to break records with a running odyssey of epic proportions.

To date, he has clocked up 155,000 miles in his training log, the equivalent of lapping the Earth six times.

Kelly Holmes

Born in 1970 in Pembury, Kelly took up athletics as a teenager, winning English Schools' 1,500m titles at junior and senior level, and later joined the army at the age of 18 as a physical training instructor.

Returning to athletics as a middle-distance runner, her first major international title was the 1,500m gold in the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Further achievements include an Olympic 800m bronze at the Sydney Games in 2000, and a 1,500m gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Frequently dogged by injury during her career, she triumphed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, winning gold in the 800m and 1,500m events. She later received the International Association of Athletics Federations Award for the best women's performance in the world during 2004. In December that year she was voted BBC Television Sports Personality of the Year. She was made a dame in 2005.

Chris Hoy

Sir Chris Hoy was born and raised in Edinburgh and has represented Great Britain and Scotland throughout his career, winning six Olympic, 11 world and two Commonwealth titles.

Hoy won his first Olympic gold medal at Athens 2004, and four years later in Beijing he became Scotland's most successful Olympian and the first Brit since 1908 to win three gold medals at a single Games.

Hoy completed his legacy by winning two more golds in front of home fans at London 2012. Having also won a silver at Sydney 2000, it took his total Olympic haul to seven medals.

Hoy's achievements make him the most successful Olympic male cyclist of all time.

Following his hat-trick of gold medals in Beijing, Hoy was voted 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year and he received a Knighthood in the 2009 New Year Honours List.

Hoy admitted to taking up cycling after watching E.T. as a child.

Alan Hunter

Hunter showed a rare ability for athletics at school, and his speed made him a regular member of the 1st XV. In 1932, he was a Scottish schoolboy international and scored two tries in the match against England.

On leaving school, he went to London and began a career in insurance. From 1932 to 1940, he worked for the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Paris, London, Madras, Karachi & Bombay.

At the same time, his athletic prowess grew and he represented Scotland and Britain in the 440-yard hurdles. Apart from being an AAA champion, his proudest moments came in 1934 when he won the gold at the Empire Games. He also got a bronze medal at the same games in the quarter-mile relay, both in the Scottish vest

Colin Jackson

With only a silver medal to show from four Olympic Games, Jackson's Olympic record seems bare in comparison to his other achievements in the sport. In a 20-year career he won everything the sport had to offer except an Olympic gold medal.

He was twice world champion, in 1993 and 1999, and set a new world record as he won his first title in Stuttgart in 1993. Jackson also won a bronze in his first World Championship in 1987 and silver a decade later. He went through his entire career without tasting defeat at the European Championships and is one of only four athletes to have won four successive titles at the event.

Added to his list of hurdles victories are two Commonwealth Games (1990 & 1994), a World Indoor hurdles championships and two European Indoor Championships titles. He also competed as a pure sprinter and was European Indoor 60m champion in 1994 as well as being an occasional member of the British 4×100m team.

As a relay runner he won a silver medal in the 1993 World Championships and competed regularly at the Europa Cup. Jackson's 1993 world record of 12.91 seconds stood for 13 years until it was broken by Liu Xiang. He was Europe's Athlete of the Year in 1994 and was voted Wales' Sports Personality of the Year three times.

Personal Best: 110H - 12.91 (1993)

Marjorie Jackson

Jackson was the supreme female sprinter of the early 1950s.

She won the Olympic sprint double in 1952, and at the Commonwealth Games, took seven sprint golds, including the 100 yards and 220 yards doubles and the 110-220-110 yards relay in 1950 and the 4×110 yards relay in 1954.

Jackson set six individual world records, four in the 100 yards and two in the 200 yards, and ran on the Australian 4×100 relay that set a world record in the heats at the 1952 Olympics. In 2001 Marjorie Jackson was appointed Governor of South Australia, a position in which she served until 2007.

Personal Bests: 100 - 11.4 (1952); 200 - 23.59 (1952)

Ben Johnson

Jamaican native Johnson moved to Canada at the age of 14 and eventually came under the tutelage of track coach and former Olympian Charlie Francis.

By the 1982 Commonwealth Games, where he won silver medals for Canada in the 100m and the 4×100m relay, his star on the international athletics scene was rising rapidly. Although he failed to reach the podium at the 1983 World Championships and Pan American Games, he was a member of Canada's delegation to the 1984 Summer Olympics, where he received bronze medals in 100m and the 4×100m. He finally captured gold in these events at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, where he also took home bronze in the 200m competition.

Already a world record-holder in the indoor 60m, Johnson became a member of the Order of Canada in 1987, the same year that he won gold in the 100m event at the World Championships with a world record of 9.83 seconds.

His achievements earned him a Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top sportsperson of the year and the title of Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 1987. At the 1988 Summer Olympics he again captured gold in the 100m, this time besting his own world record with a run of 9.79 seconds, a mark that would not be seen again until Maurice Greene achieved it in 1999.

Johnson would be the Canadian Press' Newsmaker of the Year for 1988, but not for laudable reasons. He was disqualified from the event three days later after testing positive for steroids. Forced to return his gold medal and stricken from the record books, he eventually admitted to having taken steroids since 1981, although he was stripped of none of his achievements that had occurred prior to 1987.

He attempted a comeback after his suspension ended in 1991, even making the Canadian national squad for the 1992 Summer Olympics, but he performed poorly and within a year had received a lifetime ban for another doping incident.

Personal Bests: 100 - 9.95 (1986); 200 - 20.41 (1985)