Don Hale Blog

  *This is a photo of Tony Crocker taken by Roger Garland, proudly wearing his “GB Veterans” tracksuit top, having just secured the European M75 High Jump title at Ancona in Italy in 2016. Special tribute to the late veteran athletic champion - Professor Anthony (Tony) Crocker - RIP. Report by Roger Garland.   It is with sadness that I am writing to inform you of the recent death of Tony Crocker.  Tony was an exceptional “Vet” athlete for many years as a member of the Droitwich Club and MMAC, still holding no less than eight MVTFL records across four disciplines and several different age categories. He was also very successful at Regional, National, European, and World Championship level, winning a hatful of gold medals whilst setting records within Great Britain and overseas.    Although the start of his athletics career pre-dated Power of 10, the amazing performances later in his career are very well documented.    We ow...

*Left to right – Iris Holder, Roger Garland, Mel Garland, Dorothy Fraser, and Pat Gallagher. Special meeting at Aberdare track despite cancellation of WMAL T&F Championships... Report from Roger Garland - Welsh Masters at Aberdare: A very special “meeting” took place at The Ron Jones Stadium in Aberdare last summer. The Welsh Masters T&F Championships should have been held there on Saturday 29th July, but due to a shortage of officials/helpers the event was cancelled. However, as Mel and I had already booked hotel accommodation near Aberdare, we decided to go along anyway, for a training session at the Aberdare track. When we were joined by a few other people, we realised we had assembled a small group that comprised several of the most successful Welsh Masters female athletes of all time! Collectively, these ladies have amassed over 200 (yes, over two hundred!) Welsh Masters, British Masters, European Masters and World Masters medals. Roger Garland.

Roger Garland reviews the performances of Welsh Masters Athletes Masters T&F champs at Pescara... Special report by Roger Garland. Welsh Masters were so incredibly well represented as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team at the European Masters Track & Field Championships in Pescara, Italy (21st September - 1st October 2023). Here is a copy of the report I've produced in relation to the Welsh Masters athletes who performed at the recent European Championships as part of the GB & NI team. When I started this report, I had no idea there would be so many WM athletes - 23 of them! Even now there is no guarantee that I've picked up everyone, but it's certainly all I can identify, even with help from friends and colleagues. *Please feel free to publish, circulate or whatever in order to get the report out there and in so doing help promote Welsh Masters Athletics. This is the link below to Roger's detailed report together with photographs. https://w...