Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club

{{Short description|Wales-based athletics club}} {{about|Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club|the multi-sports club based at Cardiff Arms Park|Cardiff Athletic Club}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox organization | name = Cardiff Athletics | full_name = Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club | logo = Cardiff Athletics logo.jpeg | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = Logo of Cardiff Athletics | image = Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club.JPG | image_size = | image_alt =  | caption = Cardiff International Sports Stadium, home of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club | map =  | map_size =  | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 =  | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | nickname = | established = 1882 as Roath (Cardiff) Harriers | founder =  | founding_location = | dissolved =  | merger = Roath Harriers and Birchgrove Harriers in 1968 | status =  | headquarters = Cardiff International Sports Stadium | coordinates = {{coord|51.47327|-3.21086|display=inline,title}} | secretary_general =  | leader_title = President | leader_name = Nigel Walker | key_people = | website = {{URL|www.cardiffathletics.org}} | remarks = | former_name = Roath (Cardiff) Harriers }}

'''Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club''' (Cardiff AAC) ({{langx|cy|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.<ref name="Athletics 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.<ref name="CAAC 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiffaac.org/abouttheclub/rollofhonour/rollofhonourgold.htm|work=Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website|publisher=Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club|year=2009|title=Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: Roll of Honour – Gold (50)|accessdate=4 July 2009|archive-date=15 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121052/http://www.cardiffaac.org/abouttheclub/rollofhonour/rollofhonourgold.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== History == thumb|right|250px|A view of the track in 2009 thumb|right|150px|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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/18940309/005/0003 |title=Victory of Roath Harriers |work=Western Mail |date=9 March 1894 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004769/19680717/033/0033 |title=Powerful |work=Bristol Evening Post |date=17 July 1968 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004986/19641019/011/0011 |title=Lynn Davies leaps into British History |work=Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) |date=19 October 1964 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref>

Cardiff were British Athletics League champions in 1972, 1973, and 1974.<ref name="Athletics 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.welshathletics.org/clubs/clubs-a-to-z-index/cardiff-aac-club-page/ |work=Welsh Athletics Ltd website |publisher=Welsh Athletics |year=2007 |title=Cardiff AAC Club Page |accessdate=4 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20090511105014/http://www.welshathletics.org/clubs/clubs-a-to-z-index/cardiff-aac-club-page/ |archivedate=11 May 2009 }}</ref><ref name="CAAC 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiffaac.org/abouttheclub/history.htm|work=Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club website|publisher=Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club|year=2009|title=Welcome to Cardiff AAC :: History|accessdate=4 July 2009}}</ref><ref name="Cardiff Council 1">{{cite web |title=Cardiff – Home, Cardiff International Sports Stadium |url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2868,2967,3001,4662,4664&id=3299&Positioning_Article_ID=&Language=&parent_directory_id=2865&d1p1=1 |accessdate=5 July 2009 |work=Cardiff Council's website |publisher=Cardiff Council |date=29 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609165947/http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2868%2C2967%2C3001%2C4662%2C4664&id=3299&Positioning_Article_ID=&Language=&parent_directory_id=2865&d1p1=1 |archivedate=9 June 2011 }}</ref>

== Honours == *British Athletics League winners; 1972, 1973, 1974

== Notable athletes == === Olympians === {| class="wikitable" |- !width=180|Athlete !width=200|Events !width=150|Games !width=100|Medals/Ref |- |Lynn Davies ||long jump, 100m, 4x100m || 1964, 1968, 1972 || 16x16px<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69002 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Berwyn Price || 4x 100m, 110m hurdles|| 1972, 1976 || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69404 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Venissa Head ||shot put/discus|| 1984||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68674 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Nigel Walker ||100m hurdles || 1984 || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69556 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Colin Jackson ||110m hurdles|| 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 ||16x16px<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69187 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Helen Miles ||100m, 4x100m|| 1988||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68733 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Angela Tooby ||10,000m || 1988 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68801 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Susan Tooby ||marathon || 1988 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68800 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Kay Morley ||100m hurdles ||1992||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68735 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Jamie Baulch ||400m, 4x400m ||1996, 2000||16x16px<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68867 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Andres Jones|| 10,000m||2000 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86926 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Christian Malcolm||200m || 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86931 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Christian Stephenson || 3,000m steeplechase||2000 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86940|title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Matt Elias || 4x400m || 2004 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/107809 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |{{flagicon|BOT}} Gable Garenamotse||long jump || 2004, 2008||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/109535 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Gareth Warburton ||800m||2012 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/126324 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Rhys Williams ||400m hurdles ||2012 ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/124095 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Jake Heyward ||1500m || 2020 || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/143100 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> |- |Jeremiah Azu ||4x100m relay || 2024 || |}

=== Commonwealth Games === {| class="wikitable" |- !width=180|Athlete !width=200|Events !width=150|Games !width=100|Medals/Ref |- |Jim Alford || 1 mile event||1938 ||16x16px |- |Clive Longe ||decathlon || 1966 ||16x16px |- |Steve Barry ||30 km walk||1982 ||16x16px |- |Sian Morris || 200m, 4x100m||1986 ||16x16px |- |Carmen Smart || 200m, 4 x100m||1986 ||16x16px |- |Paul Gray||110m hurdles, 4x400m ||1994, 1998, 2002 ||16x16px16x16px |- |Douglas Turner|| 200m, 4x100m||1998, 2002 || |- |Tim Benjamin ||400m, 4x400m ||2002 ||16x16px |- |Joe Thomas||800m || 2010, 2014 || |- |Bethan Davies ||20km walk ||2018||16x16px |- |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 == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.cardiffaac.org/ Official website]

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