Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club , formed in 1882 as Roath Harriers, is an athletics s based at the Cardiff International Sports Stadium, Cardiff. 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 Welsh 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. Cardiff were British Athletics League champions in 1973, 1974, and 1975 and remain one of the top twelve clubs in Britain.
The club 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.
Former and current Cardiff AAC athletes include:
- Jim Alford
- Lynn Davies
- Clive Longe
- Berwyn Price
- Steve Barry
- Colin Jackson
- Venissa Head
- Angela Tooby
- Helen Miles
- Carmen Smart
- Kay Morley
- Tanni Grey-Thompson
- Tracey Hinton
- Paul Gray
- Douglas Turner
- Nigel Walker
- Jamie Baulch
- Christian Malcolm
- Rhys Williams
- Stephen Herbert
- Matthew Elias
- Gable Garenamotse
- Tim Benjamin
- David Omoregie
