Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club (Cardiff AAC) (), 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. 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.
History
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.
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.
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.
Cardiff were British Athletics League champions in 1972, 1973, and 1974.
Honours British Athletics League winners; 1972, 1973, 1974
Notable athletes Olympians AthleteEventsGamesMedals/RefLynn Davies long jump, 100m, 4x100m 1964, 1968, 1972 Berwyn Price 4x 100m, 110m hurdles 1972, 1976 Venissa Head shot put/discus 1984Nigel Walker 100m hurdles 1984 Colin Jackson 110m hurdles 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 Helen Miles 100m, 4x100m 1988Angela Tooby 10,000m 1988 Susan Tooby marathon 1988 Kay Morley 100m hurdles 1992Jamie Baulch 400m, 4x400m 1996, 2000Andres Jones 10,000m2000 Christian Malcolm200m 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012Christian Stephenson 3,000m steeplechase2000 Matt Elias 4x400m 2004 Gable Garenamotselong jump 2004, 2008Gareth Warburton 800m2012 Rhys Williams 400m hurdles 2012 Jake Heyward 1500m 2020 Jeremiah Azu 4x100m relay 2024
Commonwealth Games AthleteEventsGamesMedals/RefJim Alford 1 mile event1938 Clive Longe decathlon 1966 Steve Barry 30 km walk1982 Sian Morris 200m, 4x100m1986 Carmen Smart 200m, 4 x100m1986 Paul Gray110m hurdles, 4x400m 1994, 1998, 2002 Douglas Turner 200m, 4x100m1998, 2002 Tim Benjamin 400m, 4x400m 2002 Joe Thomas800m 2010, 2014 Bethan Davies 20km walk 2018David 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
External links Official website