By Owen Morgan Adele Nicoll and Bethan Davies delivered a golden double at the Muller UK Athletics Championship in Manchester on Sunday morning. At the same time as Nicoll was claiming shot put gold with a massive new personal best in the field, Davies was marching to a dramatic win on the track in the […]

By Owen Morgan Welsh athletes enjoyed a gold rush of medals on the second day of the UK Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Sunday. Bethan Davies, Hannah Brier and Piers Copeland led the way by claiming UK titles in the 3,000m race walk, 200m and 1500m respectively. Meanwhile, there were bronze medals for Lauren […]

By Owen Morgan Adele Nicoll is living proof of the old saying that a change is as good as a rest. And if you can enjoy both – as Wales’ winter Olympian has managed over recent months – then so much the better. Nicoll, from Welshpool, is currently at the Winter Olympics in Beijing as […]

By Lucy Rees Team GB has named Adele Nicoll amongst the eight bobsledders heading to the Winter Olympics next month in Beijing. After first stepping into a bobsleigh back in 2020, her first World Cup race in 2021, and being selected as a reserve in 2022, it’s fair to say the shot putter has come […]

Welsh athlete Adele Nicoll won a stunning bobsleigh World Cup silver medal in Latvia on Sunday morning. In only her second World Cup race, the reigning Welsh shot put champion partnered pilot Mica McNeill to second place in Sigulda.

It takes energy, commitment and determination to make it to the top in sport. But you can double that if you’re trying to manage it in two. Don’t bother trying to dissuade Adele Nicoll, though. She’s got it all planned out, as she tells Owen Morgan. An impressive training video on Instagram led to Welsh shot put champion Adele Nicoll being head-hunted by the Great Britain Olympic bobsleigh team. When top GB pilot Mica McNeill saw the sheer power and speed generated by Nicoll in a lockdown training session last year, she instantly wanted the bobsleigh novice to bid for a spot on her team at next year’s Winter Olympics.

Swansea Harrier Jonny Hopkins is one of a number of Welsh athletes eyeing Great Britain senior vests this season after successful performances at the Welsh Indoor Athletics Championships on Saturday. With places at the Tokyo Olympics and European Athletics Championships up for grabs this summer, Hopkins is hoping to replicate the kind of form which saw him finish sixth in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

A sackful of outstanding performances were delivered at this year’s Cardiff Metropolitan University Christmas Classic. The traditional annual curtain raiser to the Welsh indoor season saw a number of personal bests and thrilling competitions against a backdrop of Christmas tunes and officials in festive fancy dress. Perhaps the performance of the day was Owain Lloyd-Hughes’ blistering personal best in the 60m. The Neath Harrier shattered his previous best of 7.04 when he clocked 6.76 in the heats on Sunday – making him the third fastest Welshman indoors this year behind Jeremiah Azu and Kristian Jones.

Sam Gordon is crossing his fingers that sixth place in the British Championships 100 metre final will be enough to earn him a relay place at next month’s World Athletics Championship in Doha. On a mixed first day of the championships for Welsh athletes, Gordon fought his way through to the final, where he was up against the likes of Adam Gemili, Zarnel Hughes and surprise winner Ojie Edoburun. In the first round Gordon cruised to victory and a place in the semi-finals where he was joined by 17-year-old Neath Harrier Owain Lloyd Hughes, who produced a brilliant run to finish second in his heat in 10.66.

The lashing Lancashire rain held no fears for many of the Welsh athletes competing at the Manchester International on Wednesday night. The Welsh throwers appeared to be particularly at home in the wet, bringing home a clutch of medals in difficult conditions which saw the action suspended for a short time after one particularly heavy downpour. In-form Liverpool Harrier Osian Jones, who has been habitually breaking his Welsh record recently, took another win in the hammer for the combined men’s and women’s British League team with another long throw of 73.09.

Welsh athletes will be out in force at next week’s prestigious Manchester International match. The event will see hosts England take on senior teams from Wales, Northern Ireland and Ulster, Scotland and Iceland, along with a Great Britain Under-20s team.

Commonwealth Games long jumper Rebecca Chapman retained her Welsh title with a new championship record on Saturday. The Cardiff AAC athlete produced one of the individual performances of the day to break Ruth Howell’s 40-year-old Welsh Athletics Championships record by one centimetre. Chapman leapt out to 6.34m to clinch gold at Cardiff’s International Sports Campus. Sarah Abrams was second with 6.08m, while Grace Morgan, of Cardiff Archers was third with 5.41m.