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James Williams, CEO at Welsh Athletics, shared:  The 2025 Annual Report highlights the sheer depth and scope of the activities that Welsh Athletics either directly delivers or supports across Wales. I...

Running should feel free, safe, and equal but for many women, the reality is very different. Every autumn, as the clocks go back and nights draw in, women across Wales face growing concerns about safe...

Welsh athletes return from New Delhi with two gold medals, three bronze medals, a world record and a European record following a hugely successful World Para Athletics Championships. Here’s how the ch...

WORLD PARA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS - NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 5 Welsh athletes will return from India with two gold medals, three bronze medals, a world record and a European record following...

On Sunday, St Cyres played host to a fantastic Coaching Assistants course, bringing together passionate candidates from across south, east, and west Wales. Representatives came from 11 different clubs...

Before Monday’s World Para Athletics Championship F20 shot put final, Sabrina Fortune said she was “determined to smash” her existing world record. At the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, the no...

  The Forest of Dean Rotary Club put on a great community event and even booked some fantastic autumn weather that inspired Welsh athletes to some inspired performances in the fourth of this year’s Ma...

WORLD MOUNTAIN AND TRAIL RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS – CANFRANC, SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 25-28 Three Welsh athletes – Eden O’Dea (Deeside AAC), Lizzie Richardson (Highland Hill Harriers) and Kris Jones (Swansea Ha...

This September, we were proud to launch our Autumn programme of courses across Wales. It’s been fantastic to see so many coaches, leaders, and aspiring volunteers getting involved right from the start...

The 2025 Annual General Meeting of Welsh Athletics will take place on 25th October 2025 at 10am. In accordance with statutory requirements, please find the following items on the 2025 AGM page of the ...

Former Welsh 440 yards champion David Pulsford dies The Welsh athletics fraternity will be sad to learn of the death of David Pulsford aged 89. He was one of that great band of Welsh athletes who also...

WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS – WOMEN’S 5,000M HEATS - TOKYO, SEPTEMBER 18 Welsh record holder Melissa Courtney-Bryant (Poole AC) lined up in the first semi-final of the 5,000 semi-finals in Japan. Th...

Humphrey Davies one of Welsh Schools Athletics long serving servants, sadly passed away on 28th August 2025, aged 78 years. Humphrey was a  PE Teacher at Newtown High School, Powys for many years and ...

BRITISH AND IRISH MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS – CAERNARFON, SEPTEMBER 13 The most promising British and Irish junior mountain runners converged on Y Fron, near Caernarfon for the 29 running of the ...

The weekend of 6-7 of September saw the YDL National Finals with our composite team from North Wales taking to the upper YDL final on Sepember 7 at Wavertree Stadium, Liverpool. Pitted against teams f...

BRECON CARREG CDF 10K – SEPTEMBER 7 Welsh Commonwealth Games marathoner Natasha Wilson (Micky Morris Racing Team) won the elite women’s race in Cardiff on Sunday morning. The former Welsh marathon rec...

Masters Spotlight with DAVE JAMES Tell us how and when you started running?  I started running when I was 17 in 1974. I had worked hard studying for my GCSEs and felt really unfit. I had played footba...

This year, Welsh Athletics formed a partnership with College Merthyr Tydfil to create an Endurance College Regional Development Programme in the heart of Merthyr Tydfil. The partnership is the first o...

Following on from the success of the Masters International Road Programme over the past three years, a trail half marathon international is being held for the first time between England and Wales and ...

UK Athletics has confirmed today the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team selection for the World Athletics Championships, Tokyo, Japan (13-21 September) following the finalisation...