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*Steve Gardner (*above left), with his dad Dave. Gold medals for father and son Dave and Steve Gardner at the Indoor Championships. Report by Don Hale https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com   Road Runner and super-vet Dave Gardner struck gold at the North Wales Indoor Championships at Coleg Cambria, Deeside, last Sunday by winning his M85 age category in the shot-put competition. Dave also improved on his previous PB and winning performance from last year when he competed in the M80 cat with a superb throw of 7.26m, which is also expected to be a national record. He later obtained a deserved podium place and collected a prestigious gold medal for his sterling efforts. Meanwhile, Dave’s son  Steve Gardner , also collected a gold medal in the Welsh Masters Indoor Championships at Cardiff on Sunday in his 800m track event with an excellent winning time of 2 minutes 20.89 seconds. *Gold medal winners Dave Gardner (*above left), with Steve Gardner.

Congratulations to all our 2023 Welsh Masters Athletics Champions at Yate from last weekend. Intro by Don Hale. Comments and WMAL results from Rod Davies. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Rod Davies from Welsh Masters Athletics has compiled some further results and updates from the Welsh Championships event at Yate last Saturday. He confirmed: "The attached   should   be the list of champions from Saturday. Unless there are any objections (and until howls of protest come in from someone I have somehow omitted). "Congratulations to all our 2023 Welsh Masters Champions. *These are the provisional results from the Avon/Yate Open meeting which also include the WMAL championships:  https://meets.rosterathletics.com/public/competitions/details/about?id=20558 *Also, check out my previous blog report from two gold medal winners: Don Hale Blog: Steve Gardner and Paul Brooks struck gold at the W... https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/steve-gardn...