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Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club

Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club, is an athletics club in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes at the Cardiff International Sports Stadium and comprises five sections, each specialising in a separate sport: track and field, road running, cross country, mountain running, and road walking. Cardiff AAC athletes have won a total of 122 medals at major international championships—Olympic and Paralympic Games, World and European Championships, Commonwealth Games and the World University Games.

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Cardiff Athletics
Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Established1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers
Merger ofRoath Harriers and Birchgrove Harriers in 1968
HeadquartersCardiff International Sports Stadium
Coordinates51°28′24″N 3°12′39″W / 51.47327°N 3.21086°W / 51.47327; -3.21086
President
Nigel Walker
Websitewww.cardiffathletics.org
Formerly called
Roath (Cardiff) Harriers

Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club (Cardiff AAC) (Welsh: Clwb Athletau Amatur Caerdydd), is an athletics club in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes at the Cardiff International Sports Stadium and comprises five sections, each specialising in a separate sport: track and field, road running, cross country, mountain running, and road walking.1 Cardiff AAC athletes have won a total of 122 medals at major international championships—Olympic and Paralympic Games, World and European Championships, Commonwealth Games and the World University Games.2

History

A view of the track in 2009 source ↗
Lynn Davies source ↗

Formed in 1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers, the club began as a cross country club, the first athletics only club in Wales. Roath Harriers runners became individual and team champions of the first South Wales Cross Country Championships, held on 7 March 1894.3

Roath Harriers shared Maindy Stadium with Birchgrove Harriers from its opening in 1951 and the two clubs amalgamated to form Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club in 1968.4

Lynn Davies, who was a member of Roath Harriers, was the club's first Olympian at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Competing in the men's long jump event he won the first ever long jump gold medal for Great Britain.5

Cardiff were British Athletics League champions in 1972, 1973, and 1974.167

Honours

Notable athletes

Olympians

Athlete Events Games Medals/Ref
Lynn Davies long jump, 100m, 4x100m 1964, 1968, 1972 8
Berwyn Price 4x 100m, 110m hurdles 1972, 1976 9
Venissa Head shot put/discus 1984 10
Nigel Walker 100m hurdles 1984 11
Colin Jackson 110m hurdles 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 12
Helen Miles 100m, 4x100m 1988 13
Angela Tooby 10,000m 1988 14
Susan Tooby marathon 1988 15
Kay Morley 100m hurdles 1992 16
Jamie Baulch 400m, 4x400m 1996, 2000 17
Andres Jones 10,000m 2000 18
Christian Malcolm 200m 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 19
Christian Stephenson 3,000m steeplechase 2000 20
Matt Elias 4x400m 2004 21
Botswana Gable Garenamotse long jump 2004, 2008 22
Gareth Warburton 800m 2012 23
Rhys Williams 400m hurdles 2012 24
Jake Heyward 1500m 2020 25
Jeremiah Azu 4x100m relay 2024

Commonwealth Games

Athlete Events Games Medals/Ref
Jim Alford 1 mile event 1938
Clive Longe decathlon 1966
Steve Barry 30 km walk 1982
Sian Morris 200m, 4x100m 1986
Carmen Smart 200m, 4 x100m 1986
Paul Gray 110m hurdles, 4x400m 1994, 1998, 2002
Douglas Turner 200m, 4x100m 1998, 2002
Tim Benjamin 400m, 4x400m 2002
Joe Thomas 800m 2010, 2014
Bethan Davies 20km walk 2018
David Omoregie 100m hurdles 2018

Other

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Cardiff AAC Club Page". Welsh Athletics Ltd website. Welsh Athletics. 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. "Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: Roll of Honour – Gold (50)". Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website. Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. 2009. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  3. "Victory of Roath Harriers". Western Mail. 9 March 1894. Retrieved 2 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Powerful". Bristol Evening Post. 17 July 1968. Retrieved 2 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "Lynn Davies leaps into British History". Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition). 19 October 1964. Retrieved 2 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: History". Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website. Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  7. "Cardiff – Home, Cardiff International Sports Stadium". Cardiff Council's website. Cardiff Council. 29 May 2009. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
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