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Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club

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This article is about Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. For the multi-sports club based at Cardiff Arms Park, see Cardiff Athletic Club.

Cardiff Athletics
Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Established1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers
Merger ofRoath Harriers and Birchgrove Harriers in 1968
HeadquartersCardiff International Sports Stadium
Location
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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

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A view of the track in 2009
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Lynn Davies

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.[1][6][7]

Honours

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Notable athletes

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Olympians

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Athlete Events Games Medals/Ref
Lynn Davies long jump, 100m, 4x100m 1964, 1968, 1972 Error creating thumbnail: [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 Error creating thumbnail: [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 Error creating thumbnail: [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

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

Other

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See also

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References

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