{{Short description|British sprinter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Dewi Roberts | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Welsh) | sport = Athletics | event = Sprints | club = Liverpool University AC<br>Liverpool Harriers | birth_date = 1939 | birth_place = Pentraeth, Anglesey, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = }}
'''Dewi W. Roberts''' (born 1939) is a former Welsh track and field athlete who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
== Biography == Roberts was educated at Beaumaris Grammar School and studied medicine at the University of Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005475/19580505/010/0010 |title=And the best man also ran |work=Liverpool Daily Post |p=10 |date=5 May 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref> He ran 9.9 secs during the 1957 season<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19580125/207/0009 |title=Slender Welsh Hopes of Games Sprint Win |work=Western Mail |p=9 |date=25 January 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref> and held five North Wales Championships records.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19580614/542/0022 |title=Record 880 by Billington |work=Liverpool Echo |p=22 |date=14 June 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref>
Roberts was a member of the Liverpool Harriers during his years of study.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolharriers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ClubHistoryPart21.pdf |title=From World War II up to 1970 |website=Liverpool Harriers |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref>
He represented the Welsh team<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3034/71/all |title=Wales Cardiff 1958 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=12 October 2025 |archive-date=15 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115055851/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3034/71/all |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the men's 100 yards event and helped Wales secure a fifth place finish in the final of the men's 4 × 110 yards relay with Ron Jones, Nick Whitehead and John Morgan.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19580716/195/0010 |title=Wales make change in men's relay order |work=Western Mail |p=10 |date=16 July 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref>
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