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Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week 2023: Be their biggest supporter
Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport is a national, year-round campaign run by the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (NSPCC CPSU) which aims to raise awareness of the important role parents play in kee...
Essential Safeguarding Adults in Sport and Activity Clubs Training
The Ann Craft Trust is running essential safeguarding adults in sport and activity clubs in Wales training. This training covers the essentials for safeguarding adults in sport and activity clubs for ...
Weekend Round-Up (23rd & 24th of September)
Llanelli Half Marathon, 24 of September Front Runner Events’ Llanelli Half Marathon returned on Sunday, with hundreds of runners taking part. Harry Waring claimed the men’s title, finishing the h...
2023 Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Welsh Athletics Ltd will be held at 10 a.m. on 21 October 2023. The meeting will be held in Sport Wales in Cardiff or online via a video conference. Further information ...
Winter 2023/24 Fixtures
This winter will see a wide range of Indoor Track & Field and Off-Track competitions. The Indoor Track & Field season will get underway with the Welsh Athletics & Welsh Schools Combined Events Champio...
Weekend Round-Up (16th & 17th of September)
Swansea Bay 10K, 17 September The rain poured on Sunday as the Admiral Swansea Bay 10k returned for its 42nd race. All top three finishers in the men’s race finished under the 30-minute mark. Kadar ...
Swansea Bay 10K inc Welsh 10K Road Race Series Preview
The Admiral Swansea Bay 10k returns for its 42nd race on 17 September 2023, and takes place along the beautiful and iconic sweep of Swansea Bay. The 2023 race will host the fifth and final fixture in ...
2023 Welsh Road Relay Championships Round-Up
On a sunny day in Pembrey last Saturday, Wales’s top athletics teams went head-to-head in battle to be crowned Welsh Champions. The day got underway with the Primary races. In the boy’s race Bridg...
Success for Welsh Team at the British and Irish Junior Mountain Running Championships
It was a successful Championships for the Welsh Junior Mountain Runners at Peeples, Scotland on Sunday 10th September winning two individual and one team gold medals, one silver individual and one s...
Welsh Athletics Sports Injury Clinic Launch
We are delighted to share, that today Welsh Athletics has launched a Sports Injury Clinic at the National Indoor Athletics Centre, in Cardiff. Our goal is to provide the same high-level physiotherap...
2023/24 Paralympic World Class Programme Announced
7 Welsh athletes have been offered membership to the Paralympic World Class Programme for 2023/24. The Paralympic WCP is UK Sport’s National Lottery-funded initiative supporting the delivery of succ...
Opportunity to represent Wales at the BMAF Masters Cross Country International
Welsh Athletics will be selecting Welsh Teams to compete at the BMAF Masters Cross Country International taking place in Glasgow on Saturday 11th November 2023 As usual the Welsh Team Selectors will m...
Welsh Athletics Officials Terms & Conditions
On the 1 of October 2023, the Home Country Athletics Federations (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) will assume responsibility for the licensing of levels 1-3 officials across the UK. All ...
Trinbago Commonwealth Youth Games Round-Up
On Saturday, Team Wales hosted the Commonwealth Youth Games homecoming at the Royal Mint Experience in Llantrisant. 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, Bethan Davies led the celebrations, she ...
2023 Welsh Road Relay Championships Preview
The Welsh Road Relay Championships will return to Pembrey Country Park on Saturday the 9th of September. Senior teams will cover a distance of 5,400m in a team of four, where teams will battle it o...
Welsh Athletics Coaching Terms & Conditions
On the 1 of October 2023, the Home Country Athletics Federations (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) will assume responsibility for the licensing of coaches and leaders across the UK. This i...
Annual General Meeting - 42 day reminder
Welsh Athletics members are reminded that the 42-day deadline for submissions of notices of motion at the 2023 Annual General Meeting is this Friday. Could any member who wishes to submit a notice of ...
Welsh Athletics is seeking nominations for the role of Chair and Secretary to the General Council.
Welsh Athletics is seeking nominations for the role of Chair and Secretary to the General Council. The General Council is a key committee that forms part of the Governance structure of Welsh Athletics...
Weekend Round-Up (2nd & 3rd of September)
Cardiff 10K, 3 September Thousands of runners took to the streets of Cardiff for the return of the CDF 10k. The race was last hosted in the Welsh capital in 2019. Alaw Evans (Les Croupiers) took advan...
Age Group Consultation
To bring our sport into further alignment with World Athletics and European Athletics and to help address the significant drop-out from track and field athletics during teenage years, the Home Country...