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Senior & U15 Indoor Championships Entry is now Open
Welsh Athletics are delighted to be able to open entries for the 2022 Indoor Senior and U15 Championships without any limits on the numbers of athletes able to compete. After a period of uncerta...
Updated team list for Home Countries and Celtic Cross Country International
This weekend sees a 28 strong team travel to Belfast for the Home Countries and Celtic Cross Country International. The updated team is below, and includes Donna Morris, Alex Jackson, Iwan Thomas, Mal...
Weekend Round Up (15/16th Jan)
Houston Marathon - Houston, US Racing over the marathon distance for her first ever time, Emily Kearny (Wirral) left Houston with a COMMONWEALTH GAMES NOMINATION STANDARD and a personal best of 2...
Welsh Road Running Championships 2022
This years Welsh Road Championships will be held within the following events: Half Marathon - Sunday 27th March : Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon 5km - Sunday 1st May : Cardiff 5k Race for Vi...
Running and Athletics events in Wales allowed to return
From Saturday 15th January up to 500 adults can take part in outdoor events in Wales allowing the return of mass participation running events including parkrun. Reacting to the news, James Williams,�...
Vivienne Head Obituary
Welsh Athletics has recently heard the sad news of Vivienne's passing and wish to offer our most sincere condolences to her daughters Rhianwen and Cerys,her sister Venissa and her brother Alvin. V...
2022 PUL5K (Friday Night meets Podium 5K) Representative Opportunity
2022 PUL5K (Friday Night meets Podium 5K) 5km Road Running Representative Opportunity Friday 11h February 2022 Welsh Athletics are pleased to announce that they are planning on sendin...
Weekend Round Up (8-9th Jan)
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...
Weekend Round Up (1-3rd Jan)
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...
OBE for Aled Davies
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, Rya...
Tributes to Olympian & Welsh Sprint Legend Ron Jones
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...
Weekend Round Up (25-27th)
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 CEO and parkrun COO issue a joint statement in response to todays announcement by the First Minister
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...
Best Season Yet Programme Launch
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 National Awards 2021 – Now open for Nominations!
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 an...
COVID update
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 ...
Sad news of the passing of Ron Freeman
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 & Fie...
Officials Bulletin
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. MÜLL...
Weekend Round Up 18/19th December
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 10,000...
Weekend Round Up (11th/12th Dec)
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 N...