Schools Athletics and Initiatives Updates
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...
Weekend Round Up (4/5th Dec)
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...
Nesbitt & Perrin secure Euro Cross places
Jenny Nesbitt and Osian Perrin claimed automatic selection for the Spar European Cross Country Championships in Dublin. Jenny Nesbitt was clearly delighted with her convincing second place finish in t...
Welsh Athletes chasing Euro Team selection in Liverpool
Charlotte Arter and Jenny Nesbitt will head the Welsh challenge at the British Athletics Liverpool Cross Challenge on Saturday. The event at Sefton Park will be hosting the trial for the Spar European...
Weekend RoundUp - Inter-Schools / Inter-Regional Cross Country Championships
On Saturday 20th November, the Welsh Inter-Regional Cross Country Championships were held with a combined fixture with the Welsh Inter-Schools Championships. West Wales was able to prize the overal...
West Wales claim Regional title with Inter-Schools Champions also crowned
West Wales win the Welsh Inter-Regional Cross Country Championships in a combined fixture with the Welsh Inter-Schools Championships. The West were able to prize the overall title from the South Regio...
Inter-Schools Championships pairs with the Inter-Regional Cross Country Championships in Brecon
The 44th Welsh Inter-Schools Cross Country Championships will take place alongside the 22nd Welsh Inter-Regional Cross Country Championships on Saturday. The combined fixture returns to the Penlan Are...
Weekend Round Up 13-14th November
British Athletics Cross Challenge The second round of the British Athletics Cross Challenge returned this weekend, in Milton Keynes, after a fantastic opening event in Cardiff last month. A number of ...
Weekend Round - Arter Claims Victory at the Cardiff Cross Challenge
Catching up from last weekend, there were two stand-out performances on the roads. Ciaran Lewis, Cardiff Athletics, won the Manchester Half Marathon Elite race on his debut at the distance. His time o...
Junior opportunities to represent Wales on Road & XC available
The selection policy for the first of these opportunities to represent Wales is available here - Liverpool Selection Policy - and more information is available via the Competing for Wales page. Race ...
Cardiff joins World Athletics Cross Country Tour
Welsh Athletics are delighted to confirm that this coming weekend's Cardiff Cross Challenge has been confirmed as one of the first events in this year's World Athletics Cross Country Tour. Ja...
Equal Opportunities in Cross Country consultation update
UK Athletics have today provided the following update: Following the closing date for both the survey and written submissions at the end of January we are pleased to confirm significant engagement wit...
Welsh Indoor and Welsh XC Championships cancelled due to COVID-19
The Welsh Government have placed Wales into Alert Level 4 for an unquantified time period due to the severity of the current COVID-19 situation. In light of this, discussions have been held regard...
Primary Schools Virtual XC Results
Between Monday 30th November and Friday 18th December was the virtual Welsh Schools & Welsh Athletics Primary Schools 1km challenge. We were very pleased to see so many schools taking the opportunity ...
Return to Cross Country guidance released
We are pleased to now be able to release updated Return to Track & Field Competition [v3] along with version 1 of our Return to Cross Country Competition guidance documents. Both documents will be ci...
Cardiff Cross Challenge Update
It is with a heavy heart that we have taken the decision to cancel this year’s edition of the Cardiff Cross Challenge. With Welsh Government restrictions still in place limiting the number of part...
Status update for the major Road & Trail races in Wales
It's been a frantic time with a lot of event postponements and cancellations, so here's a handy summary of the current status of some of the biggest Road, trail & Cross country races, includin...
SPOTLIGHT WITH ROGER HARRISON-JONES, PRESTATYN RUNNING CLUB
The North Wales Cross Country League is the oldest cross country league in Wales and started in 1958. Roger Harrison-Jones, then of Rhyl AC and now of Prestatyn Running Club, not only took part in tha...
Welsh Schools National Cross-Country Championships
Penlan Arena, Brecon – Wednesday, March 11th. - RACE REPORT from Steve Jones Squally rain showers and a stiff breeze greeted the athletes for the 58th. staging of the Welsh Schools “Nationals”. ...
Weekend Round Up 14th & 15th March
Here's a round up of what could be the last weekend of action for a few weeks, starting with the British Masters XC Champs in North Wales. [Write up: Owen Morgan, pic: Steve 'Smiler 'Smith...