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.

Cardiff Amateur Athletics club celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday by hosting some of the biggest names in British domestic athletics. The Cardiff International Sports Campus was the venue for the club’s British Athletics League Premier Division fixture, along with a UK Women’s Athletics League Division One fixture.