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Congratulations to the 30 athletes selected to represent Welsh Athletics at the Home Nations and Celtic Cross Country on Saturday February 7, Parliament Hill, London. The Home Nations and Celtics Cros...

Global stars, Commonwealth Games hopefuls and some of the most exciting young athletics talent in the UK promise to make this weekend’s 49th Welsh Senior, Under-17 and Para Indoor Athletics Championsh...

Despite the rain, on Sunday 1 February Welsh Athletics Leader in Running Fitness course at Swansea University was a great success, setting the pace for February! Seventeen enthusiastic attendees took ...

The Daily Mile Foundation, which is supported by INEOS, is partnering with Queen’s University Belfast to launch UK-wide data linkage study on children’s health and wellbeing. Groundbreaking research w...

BOSTON UNIVERSITY JOHN THOMAS TERRIER CLASSIC – BOSTON, JANUARY 30 Just a week after setting a new Welsh indoor 800m record, Issy Boffey (Enfield and Haringey) was at it again as she produced a genuin...

What is Time to Talk Day Time to Talk Day is on 5 February 2026. Over the last decade, Time to Talk Day has been the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. It’s a day for friends, families, comm...

2026 WELSH CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS – CARDIFF, JANUARY 24 US-based brother and sister Thomas and Emily Chaston claimed the men’s and women’s senior titles at the 121st Welsh Cross Country Champions...

Congratulations to the 8 athletes selected to represent Welsh Athletics at the Armagh International on Thursday February 12th, Armagh, Ireland. We are very excited to select a Welsh team of very promi...

The Welsh Cross Country Championships heads back to Cardiff this weekend for the first time since 2014. For the past decade the event has toured a number of venues including Swansea, Brecon and Pembre...

WELSH INDOOR U-13, U-15, U20 AND PARA TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY ONE Saturday was a day of close finishes, high-speed head-to-heads and a national age group record. One of the performances of t...

WELSH INDOOR U-13, U-15, U20 AND PARA TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS The 49th Welsh Junior Championships witnessed almost 500 of Wales most promising young athletes produce an enthralling weekend of hi...

Congratulations to the 6 athletes selected to represent Welsh Athletics at the Anglo Celtic Plate 100km on Saturday March 21st, Limerick, Ireland. Congratulations to the athletes selected to compete f...

The 2026 calendar of national championships begins with a bang this weekend at the Welsh Under-13, Under-15, Under-20 and Para Indoor Athletics Championships. Almost 500 of Wales’ most promising young...

UKA have announced today that The Power of 10, the UK’s most popular athletics rankings and results website, is taking a break for a couple of weeks and will be temporarily offline as it completes its...

Welsh Athletics notes that the Cardiff 5K – Race for Victory will not take place in 2026. The event had been scheduled to host the Welsh 5K Championships. In conjunction with the Road and Cross Countr...

NORTH WALES INDOOR REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2026 – DEESIDE, JANUARY 10 National Development Programme athlete Aidan Angilletta (Deeside AAC) was one of the many stand-out performers in Deeside. The tale...

Carmarthen Harrier Wynne Oliver (1940-2025) died on 31 December 2025. Wynne was a pupil at Llanelli Grammar School, and while at school, he was chosen to compete for Wales in the 1958 British Empire a...

Malcolm “Mac” Beames who has died was a key member of Roath Harriers and was the driving force behind so many of their road race promotions particularly the Lake 15 which attracted many leading UK dis...

Steve Perks, coach and Chair of Welsh Athletics was awarded an MBE in the Kings Honours List for his services to Athletics. James Williams, Welsh Athletics CEO shared: It was great to hear of Steve’s ...

MANCHESTER OPEN MEETING – DECEMBER 21 Several Welsh athletes produced notable performances at the Manchester Open Meeting on the Sunday before Christmas. Under-17 sprinter Tomos Rigby (Menai Track and...