Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club

This article is about Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. For the multi-sports club based at Cardiff Arms Park, see Cardiff Athletic Club.

Cardiff Athletics

Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Logo of Cardiff Athletics
Cardiff International Sports Stadium, home of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Established	1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers
Merger of	Roath Harriers and Birchgrove Harriers in 1968
Headquarters	Cardiff International Sports Stadium
Location	Cardiff
Coordinates	51°28′24″N3°12′39″W / 51.47327°N 3.21086°W / 51.47327; -3.21086
President	Nigel Walker
Website	www.cardiffathletics.org
Formerly called	Roath (Cardiff) Harriers

Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club (Cardiff AAC) (Welsh : Clwb Athletau Amatur Caerdydd), is an athletics club in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes at the Cardiff International Sports Stadium and comprises five sections, each specialising in a separate sport: track and field, road running, cross country, mountain running, and road walking. ^[1] Cardiff AAC athletes have won a total of 122 medals at major international championships—Olympic and Paralympic Games, World and European Championships, Commonwealth Games and the World University Games. ^[2]

History

A view of the track in 2009

Lynn Davies

Formed in 1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers, the club began as a cross country club, the first athletics only club in Wales. Roath Harriers runners became individual and team champions of the first South Wales Cross Country Championships, held on 7 March 1894. ^[3]

Roath Harriers shared Maindy Stadium with Birchgrove Harriers from its opening in 1951 and the two clubs amalgamated to form Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club in 1968. ^[4]

Lynn Davies, who was a member of Roath Harriers, was the club's first Olympian at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Competing in the men's long jump event he won the first ever long jump gold medal for Great Britain. ^[5]

Cardiff were British Athletics League champions in 1972, 1973, and 1974. ^{[1] [6] [7]}

Honours

• British Athletics League winners; 1972, 1973, 1974

Notable athletes

Olympians

Athlete	Events	Games	Medals/Ref
Lynn Davies	long jump, 100m, 4x100m	1964, 1968, 1972	[8]
Berwyn Price	4x 100m, 110m hurdles	1972, 1976	[9]
Venissa Head	shot put/discus	1984	[10]
Nigel Walker	100m hurdles	1984	[11]
Colin Jackson	110m hurdles	1988, 1992, 1996, 2000	[12]
Helen Miles	100m, 4x100m	1988	[13]
Angela Tooby	10,000m	1988	[14]
Susan Tooby	marathon	1988	[15]
Kay Morley	100m hurdles	1992	[16]
Jamie Baulch	400m, 4x400m	1996, 2000	[17]
Andres Jones	10,000m	2000	[18]
Christian Malcolm	200m	2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	[19]
Christian Stephenson	3,000m steeplechase	2000	[20]
Matt Elias	4x400m	2004	[21]
Gable Garenamotse	long jump	2004, 2008	[22]
Gareth Warburton	800m	2012	[23]
Rhys Williams	400m hurdles	2012	[24]
Jake Heyward	1500m	2020	[25]
Jeremiah Azu	4x100m relay	2024

Commonwealth Games

Athlete	Events	Games	Medals/Ref
Jim Alford	1 mile event	1938
Clive Longe	decathlon	1966
Steve Barry	30 km walk	1982
Sian Morris	200m, 4x100m	1986
Carmen Smart	200m, 4 x100m	1986
Paul Gray	110m hurdles, 4x400m	1994, 1998, 2002
Douglas Turner	200m, 4x100m	1998, 2002
Tim Benjamin	400m, 4x400m	2002
Joe Thomas	800m	2010, 2014
Bethan Davies	20km walk	2018
David Omoregie	100m hurdles	2018

Other

• Tanni Grey-Thompson (11 x Paralympic Games gold medalist)
• Stephen Herbert (Paralympics Games silver medalist)
• Tracey Hinton (Paralympic Games silver and bronze medalist)

See also

• Sport in Cardiff

References

1. "Cardiff AAC Club Page". Welsh Athletics Ltd website. Welsh Athletics. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
2. "Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: Roll of Honour – Gold (50)". Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website. Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. 2009. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
3. "Victory of Roath Harriers" . Western Mail. 9 March 1894. Retrieved 2 April 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "Powerful" . Bristol Evening Post. 17 July 1968. Retrieved 2 April 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Lynn Davies leaps into British History" . Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition). 19 October 1964. Retrieved 2 April 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: History". Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website. Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
7. "Cardiff – Home, Cardiff International Sports Stadium". Cardiff Council's website. Cardiff Council. 29 May 2009. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
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External links

• Official website