Don Hale Blog

*Pictured above - some of the successful Newport Harriers team at Yate. Records smashed at Welsh Masters Athletics Track & Field Championships at Avon/Yate.  Chris Pruski, the records coordinator from Welsh Masters Athletics has confirmed that eleven new records were set at the recent WMAL Track & Field Championships at Yate on 21st July. Introduction by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   *Ian Bowles  returned to WMAL after recovering from illness to set 3 records - M80 Hammer, Discus and Shot. *Iris Holder  set 2 records – W80 100m and Triple Jump *Dorothy Fraser  set a new W85 100m record at Yate and we discovered she also broke the 200m record at Derby at the BMAF Champs last September. *Dave Cundy  M75 bettered the 1500 and 5000m records at Yate but in March he was in Hobart Australia, where he had set better times, so well-done Dave, we caught up with you! *Mark Wyndham-Jones  set a record in the M...

Opportunity Knocks for budding Welsh Masters T&F athletes for 2024 season....appeal from Brett Davis. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Would you like the opportunity to represent Welsh Masters Athletics at Track and Field? 

The next inter-area event is indoors and is on 25th  February 2024 at Lee Valley Athletics Centre, just outside London.  We are really keen to field the strongest Welsh Masters’ team that we can and we know that we have a lot of talent around here. We did brilliantly in the summer and it is time to build on that success. To do that, we need to have the largest pool from which to select.  
Selection will be made over the next few weeks and will be based on recent results on power of 10 (2022, 2023). We would like to get the provisional women’s team out in mid-January so that people can make travel arrangements, the men’s will take longer to establish. 

 For those events where there are no current performances on pow...