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Weekend Round-Up (5 - 6 July 2025)
07/07/2025 00:00, In Blog /
CHELTENHAM HARRIERS OPEN MEETING – JULY 2
National Development Programme under-17 athlete William Richards-Baldwin (Gloucester AC) threw a huge 5kg shot personal best of 15.91m – his fourth PB in three weeks.
THE LONDON 5000 – PARLIAMENT HILL, JULY 4
Olympian Clara Evans-Graham (Pontypridd Roadents) finished 14th in London in a time of 16:23.50.
WANDA DIAMOND LEAGUE PREFONTAINE CLASSIC – EUGENE, OREGON, JULY 5
Less than a week after winning the Welsh 200m title in Cardiff, Jeremiah Azu (Cardiff Athletics) was lining up at the 50th edition of the prestigious Prefontaine Classic in the United States.
The Paris Olympics 4x100 relay bronze medallist was taking on some of the world’s top sprinters and clocked 10.20.
WORLD ATHLETICS CONTINENTAL TOUR SILVER MEETING POZNAN – JULY 5
Justin Davies (Team Bath) celebrated his selection to represent Great Britain at the European Under-23 Championships by running his second fastest ever 800m time.
The previous day, Davies was announced as one of three Welsh athletes to make the GB team for the Under-23 Championships in Norway alongside Abi Pawlett (Trafford) and Daf Jones (Swansea Harriers).
The Welsh 800m record holder and Transition Programme athlete finished fourth in Poland in a time of 1:44.73, just outside his best of 1:44.35.
In the 1500m, Welsh Athletics Performance Programme athlete Piers Copeland (Pontypridd Roadents) finished sixth in 3:38.01.
WELSH SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS – ABERDARE, JULY 5
Almost 500 young athletes travelled to Aberdare on Saturday to represent the eight Welsh schools districts.
Among the winners were three athletes who have spent the past few weeks picking off championship best performances at various venues around Wales.
Outstanding Welsh Athletics National Development Programme athletes Aliyah Afolabi (Cardiff Archers) and Darcy Coslett (Llanelli Athletics) continued that winning habit in the sprints on Saturday.
In the under-17 women-medium girls 200m, Afolabi, representing Cardiff and Vale, improved Hannah Brier’s championship best of 24.47 as she won in 24.15 ahead of fellow Cardiff and Vale athlete Mercedes Anderson in 26.53. Hollie Taylor (South East Wales) was third in 27.00.
Not to be outdone, Coslett, representing Dyfed, smashed her own under-17 women- medium girls 300m championship best of 39.16 as she posted 38.89 to claim gold. Evan-Rae Hanniford (Cardiff and Vale) was second in 42.30 and Sophie Steel (South East Wales) third in 43.04.
Another NDP athlete who has been enjoying a record-breaking and championship winning season is steeplechaser Millie Gold.
The Cardiff and Vale athlete continued that form on Saturday in the under-20 women-senior girls 1500m steeplechase as she shattered Rhianwedd Price’s 5:07.26 set in 2012. On Saturday, Gold crossed the line in 4:58.40.
NDP multi-eventer Aidan Angilletta (North East Wales) had a successful day individually in the under-17 men-medium boys events as he won the high jump in 6.30m and the 100m hurdles in 13.62.
There were a number of other outstanding performances throughout day as Cardiff and Vale took the overall team honours with 476.5 points ahead of Afan Nedd Tawe’s 435 in second and South East Wales in third with 331.
ACTIVITY ALLIANCE UK NATIONAL PARA CHAMPIONSHIPS – COVENTRY, JULY 5-6
Welsh athletes returned with a huge haul of medals from the UK National Para Championships in Coventry over the weekend.
Leading the way was National Development Programme wheelchair racer Toby Richardson (Yate AC) whose performances saw him awarded with the outstanding male athlete of the competition on Sunday.
Richardson, who has been in outstanding form this year, celebrated two golds and a silver in the midlands.
Outstanding Transition Programme F38 athlete Mike Jenkins (Swansea Harriers) claimed gold in the shot put and the national title with a best of 16.74m.
The result means Jenkins will be considered for the World Para Athletics Championships in India in September.
T34 under-14 wheelchair racer Imogen Ashwell-Rice (Newport Harriers) enjoyed the biggest individual haul of Welsh gold with four medals.
Ashwell-Rice’s roll of honour saw her win the 100m in 25.86, the 400m in 1:37.44 (PB), the 1500m in 6:17.92 (PB) and the Slalom in 1:14.90 (PB).
F56 thrower Ellie Bowen (Cardiff Archers) won a hat-trick of golds – in the seated javelin (500g) with 10.73m, the seated shot (3kg) with 5.93m and the seated discus (1kg) with 17.06m.
F40 thrower Josh Grist (Cardiff Archers) also claimed three golds in the shot with 6.49m, the discus with 19.14m and the javelin with 20.47m.
There was a brace of golds for F34 under-18 NDP athlete Jac Sheehan (Carmarthen Harriers). Sheehan won the seated discus with 23.38m and the seated shot with 7.86m.
T37 NDP athlete Tomi Roberts-Jones (Newport Harriers), who is the current Commonwealth Youth Games 100m champion, won gold in the 100m, clocking 13.45.
Fletcher Roberts (Brighton Phoenix), the T37 London Mini Marathon winner also showed good consistent performances over the weekend.
Full results not yet available.
NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE – PREMIERSHIP – DERBY, JULY 5
A week after winning her first Welsh javelin title, Freya Jones helped league leaders Harrow AC to victory in this Premiership round two fixture.
Commonwealth Games hopeful Jones claimed full points for her club with a best throw of 51.35m.
Elsewhere in the meeting, Welsh Athletics Transition Programme thrower Adele Nicoll (Birchfield Harriers), who claimed the shot put title at last week’s Welsh Championships, gained maximum points for her club as she won with a best put of 16.66m.
Amongst the other Welsh athletes taking part in the Premiership fixture was another Transition Programme athlete, Jessica Lee (Thames Valley Harriers) who was sixth in the long jump with a best of 5.80m.
NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE – CHAMPIONSHIP WEST – BASINGSTOKE – JULY 5
Swansea Harriers strengthened their position at the top of the Championship West division with an emphatic win in Basingstoke.
The Welsh club topped the points standings on the day with 541ahead of hosts Basingstoke and Mid Hants AC. Cardiff Athletics were fourth on the day with 355 points.
Among the highlights was a clash of Welsh Commonwealth Games athletes in the women’s 100m hurdles.
Birmingham Games heptathlete Lauren Evans (Cardiff Athletics) won in 14.34 ahead of Gold Coast Games 100m and 400m hurdles competitor Caryl Granville Moore (Swansea Harriers) in 14.55.
Granville Moore did however enjoy a victory in the women’s 400m hurdles where she clocked 61.04 ahead of clubmate Sophie Lisk in 61.82 – the same result as the previous week at the Welsh Championships.
Patrick Swan (Swansea Harriers) once again did sterling work for his club winning the shot put in 17.17m, finishing second in the discus with 44.27m and third in the hammer with a best of 41.08m.
Another Swansea victory came in the men’s 3,000m where Edward Davies won in 9:01.56.
In the men’s long jump, Toks Akanbi Mortimer took full points for Cardiff Athletics with a winning leap of 6.45m with his first effort of the competition.
Cardiff’s women’s team of Francesca Morgan, Esther Adikpe, Sara Geary and Grace Morgan won the 4x100m relay.
BRECON CARREG PORTHCAWL 10K – JULY 6
Three Welsh Commonwealth Games marathoners ran their way onto the podiums at a high quality Porthcawl 10K – the latest race in the 2025 Run 4 Wales 10K Series.
In the women’s race, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games competitor Natasha Wilson (nee Cockram) from Mickey Morris Racing Team claimed the win in a new course record.
The former Welsh marathon record holder crossed the line in 33:05 to take the victory ahead of Nia Clatworthy (Cardiff Athletics) in 35:48 and Tamara Beach (Cornwall AC) in 35:55.
Wilson, who also won the Barry10K last month, said afterwards:
It’s so nice to be back in Wales. Last year I missed the whole year so I’m really happy to be back racing in front of the home crowd.
This wasn’t as brutal as the Barry Island 10K last month although it was as windy, if not windier, but the hills weren’t as bad.
I was quite surprised to be running a lot of this on my own as I thought Nia would give me a bit of a race but I left her pretty much from the start line.
I also got left behind a little bit, I could see Mike Roderick – who is normally around where I want to be – about 200m in front, so I did a lot of sprinting to catch up with him and hold on to him for as long as I could.
She added:
The atmosphere today was so good – Barry was good, but Porthcawl was even better. The Welsh crowds are always incredible and the amount of times I hear my name being called by people I don’t even know is really, really nice.
The men’s race was won by Omar Ahmed (Birchfield Harriers) in 29:25 to edge out a pair of Welsh Commonwealth Games marathon runners.
Dewi Griffiths (Swansea Harriers) was second 29:50, while his clubmate and World Athletics Championships competitor Josh Griffiths was third in 30:43.
Dewi said afterwards:
I’m pretty happy, it was pretty windy out there today but I’m happy with my performance and now it’s something to build on for the autumn.
An autumn marathon is the aim – I’m not sure where or when just yet – but we’ve just had a baby, who’s 10 weeks old today, so I’m now hopefully getting back into the routine of training and it’s good to be back.
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