Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Wales-based athletics club
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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]
Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club | |
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 Cardiff International Sports Stadium, home of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club | |
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| Established | 1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers |
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| Merger of | Roath Harriers and Birchgrove Harriers in 1968 |
| Headquarters | Cardiff International Sports Stadium |
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| Coordinates | 51.47327°N 3.21086°W |
President | Nigel Walker |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Roath (Cardiff) Harriers |
History
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
- British Athletics League winners; 1972, 1973, 1974
Notable athletes
Olympians
| Athlete | Events | Games | Medals/Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Davies | long jump, 100m, 4x100m | 1964, 1968, 1972 | .svg){kind=icon} [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 | .svg){kind=icon} [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] |
 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 | .svg){kind=icon} |
| 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
- Tanni Grey-Thompson (11 x Paralympic Games gold medalist)
- Stephen Herbert (Paralympics Games silver medalist)
- Tracey Hinton (Paralympic Games silver and bronze medalist)