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Annual General Meeting - 42 day reminder
Welsh Athletics members are reminded that the 42 day deadline for submissions of notices of motion at the 2024 Annual General Meeting is this Saturday (14th September 2024). Could any member who wishe...
Welsh Road Relays Championships - Round-Up
Almost 1,000 entries were received for Saturday’s ever popular Welsh Road Relay Championships at Pembrey Country Park. They competed in 18 categories ranging from under-11 boys to over-65 women, acr...
Weekend Round Up (7-8 September 2024)
FIFTH AVENUE MILE – NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Melissa Courtney-Bryant (Poole AAC) ran her fastest time to date at the prestigious Fifth Avenue Mile in New York on Sunday. The Commonwe...
Aled Davies wins a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in the F63 shot put
Aled Davies completed the set of Paralympic medals when he won silver in the F63 shot put in Paris on Saturday night. The legendary Welsh thrower had previously won shot put bronze at London 2012 alon...
Hollie Arnold Claimed Bronze in a High Quality F46 Javelin Final
Paralympic legend Hollie Arnold claimed bronze in a high quality F46 javelin final at a packed Stade De France in Paris on Friday night. Arnold saw her own Paralympic record, set while winning gold in...
Get to know Aled Davies OBE Ahead of the Paralympic Games
Next up on our profile series if Cardiff Athletics' Aled Sion Davies OBE who competes in the F63 Shot Put on Saturday from 19:25pm, an event in which he is the current defending Paralympic and Wo...
Harrison Walsh finished seventh in the Paralympic F46 discus final
Harrison Walsh finished seventh in the Paralympic F46 discus final at the Stade de France in Paris on Thursday evening. The former Ospreys and Wales age group rugby player was making his debut at the ...
Funmi Oduwaiye and Olivia Breen sadly miss out on Paralympic medals
Funmi Oduwaiye and Olivia Breen both missed out on Paralympic medals in their respective finals at a rainy and cold Stade De France on Thursday morning. Oduwaiye finished fifth in the F64 shot put whi...
Get to know Hollie Arnold MBE ahead of the Paralympic Games
F46 javelin thrower Hollie Arnold arrives in Paris ready for what will an incredible 5th Paralympic Games for the Loughborough-based athlete! She will be competing on Friday 6 September from 18:18 onw...
Get to know Harrison Walsh ahead of the Paralympic Games
Harrison Walsh makes his Paralympic Games debut in Paris competing in the F64 Discus on Thursday 5 September at 18:04pm. Formerly a Welsh U18 international and development player with the Ospreys, W...
Calling all Clubs - Free Mental Health Training and Support
Notice for Welsh Athletics Affiliated Clubs. Welsh Athletics and Run Wales are committed to promoting positive mental health across the running network in Wales and to signpost runners to professional...
The Late John Bradshaw - An Appreciation
The late John Bradshaw – an appreciation by Carmarthen club stalwarts Hedydd Davies and Vince James. Welsh Athletics and Carmarthen Harriers are very sad to report the death of John Bradshaw, aged ...
Masters International Mid Cheshire 5km - Round-Up
At the third of this year’s Master Road International’s Lee Aherne, Parc Bryn Bach, was the star of the day for Wales with an incredible one second victory in his M55 age category, which was one o...
Weekend Round-Up (30 August - 1 September)
WORLD ATHLETICS U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS - LIMA, PERU, AUGUST 27 - 28 Eden Robinson (Cardiff Archers) had a remarkable performance at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima. The 17 year old came 5th i...
Sabrina Fortune takes gold and set's a new World Record in the F20 shot put
Sabrina Fortune (Deeside AAC) left nothing to chance in the Paris Paralympics F20 shot put final at the Stade De France on Sunday night. With her very first throw of the night, Fortune effectively end...
Olivia Breen comes agonisingly close to a place in the T38 100m Paralympic final
Olivia Breen agonisingly missed out on a place in the T38 100m at the Paris Paralympics by just 0.02 of a second on Saturday morning. The first of six Welsh athletes who will compete for Great Britain...
Get to know Funmi Oduwaiye ahead of the Paralympic Games
Meet Funmi, one of five Welsh throwers at this year's Paralympics. While Funmi's journey so far leads her to compete in the Women's Discus Throw F64 (September 1 from 09:47am) and the Wome...
Get to know Sabrina Fortune ahead of the Paralympic Games
Sabrina Fortune is a force to be reckoned with, winning title after title in her own dignified way. She is now the world's leading women's F20 shot putter having won the world title three tim...
Get to know Olivia Breen ahead of the Paralympic Games
Olivia Breen, who competes in the T38 100m and T38 Long Jump as one of the stars of Welsh para-athletics, comes into the Paris Paralympics after being named as Co-captain of the Paralympics GB Team. ...
Get to know Throws Team Lead Ryan Spencer-Jones Ahead of the Paralympics!
This summer's Paralympics, the games' 17th summer edition, is nearly ready for kick-off! Running from August 28 - 8 September, the next eleven days are set to feature an exciting range of co...