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Both in Sheffield and further afield in Valencia, it has been a successful and busy weekend of competing for a number of Welsh athletes. Valencia 10k In the warmer, and sunnier climates of Valencia, B...

As is traditional, the New Year brought with it a few racing opportunities around the UK and overseas. Although not many results to report, there were a couple of athletes in action. Central Lancs Hal...

Aled Davies has been made an OBE - Officer of the Order of the British Empire - in the 2022 New Year's Honours list. A massive Congratulations to Aled Davies and his long time coach, Ryan Spence...

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death today, December 30th, of one of the all-time greats of Welsh athletics, Ron Jones at the age of 87. He captained Britain’s Olympic team in ...

It was an understandably quiet weekend of races, but over in Clitheroe, in the Ribble Valley 10km, Josh Griffiths (Swansea) produced a great performance, placing 2nd in a time of 29:25, closing out th...

Welsh Athletics and parkrun are disappointed and concerned by the introduction of prohibitive restrictions that will once again significantly impact on the ability for people to engage with walking, r...

In order to continue to support parents and young people to thrive in our sport, in addition to the Non-Perfect Parent Webinar Series, Welsh Athletics has worked with parenting practitioner, Rich Shor...

Welsh Athletics & Run Wales are excited to announce that nominations are now open for the annual National Awards for 2021. This year has seen our athletics and running community return to sport and na...

Welsh Athletics acknowledges the latest guidance from Welsh Government, we await further clarification on the detail of the guidance, and will inform clubs, competition providers and athletes as soon ...

Welsh Atletics has recently heard the sad news of the passing of Ron Freeman. Ron was one of a small band of technical officials from England who regularly supported     Track & Field competitions ...

Congratulations to the 8 officials selected for the UKA 2022 Indoor events in February. Llongyfarchiadau i'r 8 swyddog a ddewiswyd ar gyfer cystadlaethau dan do UKA 2022 ym mis Chwefror. MÜLLER I...

Open Irish Race Walking Championships - Raheny, Ireland In Raheny, Ireland, Heather Lewis (Pembrokeshire) walked herself to a Commonwealth Games nomination standard of 45:53  over the 10,000m distan...

Telford 10km A notoriously fast course, Telford 10km proved quick once again, with Abed Teweldebrhan (Newport Harriers) coming home fifth in a lifetime best of 29.17 ahead of Dan Nash (Cardiff) wh...

All three Welsh athletes who represented Great Britain at the European Athletics XC Championships in Dublin today helped secure team medals. After a fantastic run in Dublin for a individual 10th place...

A trio of Welsh athletes will compete at the Spar European Cross Country Championships in Dublin on Saturday. Jenny Nesbitt has been showing great racing form so far this winter and will be hoping tha...

“Unfortunately due to the increased threat of Covid 19 moving into the Christmas period a decision has been made to postpone the second Regional Development Day on Saturday December 18th. It was fel...

  In an unprecedented year for Athletics, and coach and leader development, the delivery of the Leadership in Running Fitness (LiRF) qualification needed to evolve to accomodate a Covid climate. Thi...

SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY: The Welsh Secondary Schools & Colleges Cross Country Championships will be held at Brecon on Saturday 12th February. To participate you must be selected by your school district...

Saturday 4th December saw a 16 strong team of Welsh Schools athletes competing at the Scottish Schools Pentathlon International at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. The team was made up of 4 athletes fro...

Picture caption: Former Welsh Javelin record holder Jackie Zaslona, Gill Regan and Gwyn Williams. The Welsh athletics fraternity will be sad to learn of the death of former Welsh long jump record hol...