There was medal success on the track and in the field for Welsh athletes on the first day of the British Athletics Championships on Saturday. Sprinter Jeremiah Azu and shot putter Patrick Swan both produced personal best performances on their way to bronze medals in Birmingham.

Wales’ young guns took the World Athletics Indoor Tour event in Manchester by storm on Saturday afternoon. Osian Perrin shattered his own UK 3,000m indoor junior record, Jeremiah Azu clocked a World Indoor Athletics Championships qualifying time in the 60m and Piers Copeland celebrated an impressive 1500m win.

Jeremiah Azu continues to lead the pack of Welsh sprinters closing in on Christian Malcolm’s 20-year-old Welsh 100m record. The 20-year-old shaved another 0.03 of a second off his personal best at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

By Owen Morgan Two of Wales’ most talented young sprinters want more of life in the fast lane after competing at major championships this summer. Joe Brier’s experiences at the Tokyo Olympics and Jeremiah’s Azu’s European Under-23 gold medal winning performance in Estonia have whetted the appetite for even more success on the world stage next summer. And what a sizzling summer it promises to be with Commonwealth Games, World Athletics Championships and European Championships all taking place within the space of a few short weeks.

Tom Marshall won his 16th Welsh title across all running disciplines on Sunday in one of the closest races of his illustrious career. The Cardiff middle distance star has moved up to run 5,000m on the track this season after making his name primarily over 800 and 1500m. But he will seldom have been pushed closer than he was in the final few steps of the 12.5-lap race around the Cardiff International Sports Campus track.

Wales’ 4x100m men’s relay team ran the fastest time by a Welsh quartet outside of a Commonwealth Games at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Gateshead on Tuesday night. Meanwhile the Welsh women’s team clocked one of their fastest 4x100m times ever at the same event.

Tokyo Olympics-bound Jake Heyward and Joe Brier, along with new European Under-23 champion Jeremiah Azu will be part of a large Welsh contingent at Tuesday’s Wanda Diamond League Meeting in Gateshead. Cardiff athlete Heyward will round off his racing preparations for the 1500m in Japan by taking part in the Emsley Carr Mile alongside fellow Welsh athlete Piers Copeland.

Jeremiah Azu cruised to European Under-23 Athletics Championships 100m gold with an imperious display of sprinting in Estonia. The Cardiff athlete left the rest of the field in his wake – even allowing himself a celebration 10 metres from the finishing line on Friday evening in Tallinn.

Jeremiah Azu ran a sensational 10.19 secs at the European U23 Champs in Tallinn to move second on the Welsh all-time list. The Cardiff Sprint ace sliced 0.8 secs off his lifetime best set in 2019 to qualify for the final on Friday in the Estonian capital.

Two of Wales’ brightest young sprinters have been selected to represent Great Britain at next month’s European Under-23 Championships in Estonia. Jeremiah Azu and Joe Brier are part of a 54-strong team travelling to Tallinn for the championships which start on July 8.

Jake Heyward literally strolled into Saturday’s 1500m final at the Muller British Athletics Championships and Tokyo Olympic trials on Friday night. The American-based athlete cruised to victory in the fourth heat of the 1500m with fellow Welshman Piers Copeland finishing second to also qualify automatically for the final.

More than 50 Welsh athletes travel to Manchester this weekend to take part in the Muller British Athletics Championships and Great Britain Olympic trials. This year’s championships promises to be one of the most keenly contested in recent history with a number genuine world class athletes bidding for places on the plane to Tokyo next month.