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*Pictured above - North Wales Road Runner Steve Gardner with his M60 gold medal at the Cardiff Indoor Arena. Gold medal winners at the Welsh Masters 3000m championships at Cardiff...plus January indoor updates. Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis, a director of WMAL has just confirmed the gold medal winners and results from the various 3000m championship races for both male and female athletes from last Sunday at the Cardiff Indoor Stadium. North Wales Road Runner  Steve Gardner  made the long journey south once again to record an excellent time in his veteran M60 age category in a time of 10 minutes and 37 seconds to claim a new PB. After his event Steve, who deservedly struck gold, later said : “ I competed at the 3000m champs in Cardiff yesterday, and I was very pleased with my performance in a time of 10.37, which was a new pb for me, 25 seconds faster than my previous outdoor time set earlier in the year.  ...

Welsh Masters Sprint events confirmed for 26th January at Cardiff Indoor Centre...and see details for 12th Jan meeting. Introduction by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk URGENT UPDATE:  It has now been agreed and confirmed by Welsh Masters Athletics officials that the forthcoming meeting in Cardiff at the National Indoor Athletics Centre on 12th January will include the 800m and 1500m championships. *Also, please note:   Brett Davis ,  a Director of   Welsh Masters Athletics Limited, has confirmed some important updates to other varied indoor meetings: * The 800m and 1500m events on the  12th January  are available to enter now. * Sprints will now be included with the meeting on the  26th January. Brett Davis, has additionally confirmed this week:  Hi all,  I’ve had the nod that the sprints meet on 26th January  is due to go live this week (or later based on previous go live dates). Having seen th...

*Pictured above - the Cardiff Indoor athletics arena. Welsh Masters Indoor Championships at Cardiff on Sunday 12th December...entries now available..,.plus news of track races for 12th January 2025. Introduction by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk URGENT UPDATE: It has just been agreed and confirmed by Welsh Masters Athletics officials that the forthcoming meeting in Cardiff at the National Indoor Athletics Centre on 12th January will include our 800m and 1500m championships.   *Also, please note:   Brett Davis ,  a Director of   Welsh Masters Athletics Limited, has also confirmed some important updates to some other varied indoor events:   * The 3000m championships on the  15th December  is still taking entries. * The 800m and 1500m on the  12th January  will be available to enter any day now. * Sprints will be covered at the meeting on the  26th January. * We will be considering if we have any...

*Three Bexley AC athletes (*pictured above), at Corby, from left to right, Graham Holder, Andy Rushbrook, and Peter Hawley. Some interesting results for Welsh Masters athletes at the Inter-Area T&F championships at Corby.... Brett Davis reports on the success of WMAL athletes.   Three athletes from Bexley AC represented Welsh Masters Athletics at the Inter-Area track and field championships at Corby last weekend in the throwing events. This included M50  Graham Holder,  shot, discus, and hammer, M60  Andy Rushbrook , shot and high jump, and M70  Peter Hawley  shot. The men came 6th out of 9 teams with wins from  Graham Holder  for the hammer,  Glyn Price  for the pole vault and the M60, 4 x 100m relay team ( Rod Davies ,  Brett Davis ,  Ian Broadhurst , and  Paul Williams ). The women came an amazing 2nd out of 9 teams with wins from  Kath Morgan  W35 high jump,  Mel Garland  W60 high jump, 100m and...

  THE WELSH MASTERS ATHLETICS MEN'S TEAM FOR THE INTER-AREA TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS AT CORBY ON 7TH SEPT 2024.

Field officials urgently wanted for EMAA Outdoor and Welsh Masters Athletics  Inter-Area challenge at Corby on 7th Sept.   https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis from Welsh Masters Athletics is urgently appealing for volunteers including field officials for the Inter-Area challenge at Corby on 7th September 2024. *If anyone is interested and available on that day, or know someone that might help, can you please contact the organiser Caret Hollick asap! PLEASE CONTACT via this link/address:   emacchairperson@yahoo.com  

  Welsh Masters Athletics set to hold Summer T&F championships at Yate again this year. Brett Davis, a director of Welsh Masters Athletics, has confirmed an  important  update this week regarding the WMAL championships. He said: "WMAL will be holding our Summer Athletics T&F championships in Yate again! We are combining with Avon Athletics Association and Yate AC, who are hosting the Masters Open Track and Field Event   on Sunday 21st July.   This is a week before the BMAF Championships in Derby on 27/28th July." *Further details to follow.

Veteran W50 runner wanted for 800m race in Welsh Masters T&F Inter-area championships race. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Attention all veteran female athletes - do you want to run and represent Welsh Masters Athletics as a W50 800m athlete? WMAL team manager Eleri Jones is urgently looking for someone to join her squad for the forthcoming Inter-area T&F championships. This week she asked:   “Is it possible to put a shout out on the Welsh Masters page for a W50 800m runner please? We’ve had a couple of people who aren’t available and running out of options? "We have a vacancy in the team for a W50 800m runner, whilst the men’s team is heading towards announcement of a provisional team. Thanks." Eleri can be contacted via email:  eleri9uk@yahoo.com Brett Davis can be contacted via email:   brett-davis1@sky.com

*Pictured above - The Indoor stadium and track at Cardiff Met University. Welsh Masters Athletics roll of honour and list of champions from the Non Thomas Indoor championships. Report by Don Hale.  https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   There were some excellent results and some fast times recorded at the Welsh Masters Athletics 2024 Indoor track events, held at the Indoor Stadium at Cardiff Metropolitan University last Sunday, which formed part of the Non Thomas meeting. These included the 60m, 200m and 300m events, and  Brett Davies , a director from Welsh Masters Athletics Ltd, has confirmed the roll of honour, and champions list of WMAL champion members. He added:  “The full results from the meeting are now available online via this link, and/or (via Cardiff Met /Welsh Athletics/Opentrack) and they will also be on the Power of 10 site very soon.”   *This is the current link to the provisional results: https://wales.opentrack.run/e...

New proposals for Welsh Masters Athletics - Winter Indoor event in Swansea. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis, a director of WMAL, has confirmed proposals for a new winter indoor event for next month. This week he explained: " We’re considering holding an indoor field events championship on Sunday 11th February in Swansea.  "However WA have been struggling to get sufficient field officials for their events. So this is a call to see how many members would be interested in competing and would also be able to officiate.  "Obviously interested in any field officials who wouldn’t be competing too, although aware that they’re less likely to be looking here. Will be using your responses to help judge if this event had a chance of happening. Thanks in advance." Brett Davis,  Director,  Welsh Masters Athletics Limited.

Welsh Masters Athletics medalists from the recent Old Father Time 5-mile race . https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis of WMAL has confirmed the medal details from the recent Old FatherTime 5-mile race... This is a list of the WMAL medallists from the Welsh Masters Road Race championships which took place within the Old Father Time 5-mile road race in Cardiff last Sunday. It took place on an extremely windy day with the heavy rain holding off until most competitors had finished. * The full results are on Les Croupiers website.   Presentations of medals took place afterwards but only using the subset of the full results that was available at the time. So only to those medallists who were still there and where their result had been processed.  I will be looking to get the remaining medals out either by post or by hand. Cheers,  Brett Davis,  Director, WMAL. OLD FATHER TIME – WELSH MASTERS 5 MILE ROAD RACE MEDALLISTS 31/12/2023: - ...

Welsh Masters Indoor Rankings including updates from 1st Nov to 21st December 2023 - by Age Group. Chris Pruski from Welsh Masters Athletics has just compiled the final indoor T&F rankings for 2023. They confirm the dates, times, and venues, as to where the records and rankings were achieved. Our thanks to Chris for his hard work in compiling these details. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk *The results are now available on the following link (see below): https://www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk/post/welsh-masters-indoor-rankings-1st-nov-to-21st-december-by-age-group