Aberdare Valley Amateur Athletic Club

THE RESULTS ARE IN!! 🏆🥇🥈🥉

Over the course of the weekend we had 13 athletes who represented their region in the Welsh schools championship in aberdare.💛🖤

Noah Howells U14 1500m
Betty Lancaster U14 800m
Dylan Snare U16
Long Jump
Ted Lancaster U16 300m Hurdles & Triple Jump
Phoebe Morgan U16 800m
Ioan Vale U16 3000m
Nia Vale U16 2000m Walk
Lily Jacklin U18 1500m
Megan Swanson U18 400m
Megan Quirk U18 800m
Evan Davies
U18 1500m steeplechase
Will Mackie U18 800n
Cian Tough U18 3000m

A massive congratulations to each and every one of our athletes but a special mention to the athletes below on achieving podium places🏆

Betty Lancaster 800m 3rd

Ted Lancaster 300m Hurdles 3rd
Triple Jump 2nd

Ioan Vale 3000m 2nd

Nia Vale 2000m walk 2nd

Megan Quirk 800m
2nd

Will Mackie 800m 2nd

Evan Davies 1500m steeplechase 3rd

Some fantastic shots of our athletes on Wednesday in the Pont-y-pwl and District Runners Relay Event!

A special mention to Martin, John and Owen on winning a prize 🍾🏆

Such a great turnout for the club even on a midweek event, Da Iawn everyone 🖤💛

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The 2026 Rack Raid (page) was an absolute blast, we loved every second.

Some very challenging stages and the team absolutely smashed it. Everyone give it their all and we are so proud of you. We finished 6th overall out of 30 very competitive teams.

A special thank you to Deb, Carwyn, Lesley and Carys who were with us all day supporting and also took on some marshalling duty.

Thank you Robert Gale for the pics 👌🏽

We are proud to announce our 2026 Rack Raid (page) team for this Sunday

14 legs over 100 miles, a truly iconic race that is in its 30th year.

One of the best weekends of the racing calendar. LETS GO TEAM 🖤💛🖤💛

Good luck to all our runners, drivers, supporters and Marshalls. 🖤💛🖤💛

Amazing performances for the Avaac 🖤💛athletes at the Regional Championships held on home Turf!!

There were 21 athletes with podium performances🥇🥈🥉👏🏻

U12 Girls

Gwennie Moses 🥇1st shot
Bella Prosser 🥉 3rd 800m
Mabli Thomas 🥉3rd Long Jump

U12 Boys

Arthur Lummis 🥇1st 800m
Flynn Morris 🥉3rd Javelin

U14 Girls

Betty Lancaster 🥉3rd 800m

U16 Girls

Meadow Morris 🥉3rd Javelin
Elsi Ap Hywel 🥉3rd 1500m steeplechase

U16 Boys

Ted Lancaster 🥇80m Hurdles& Shot
Eion Green 🥇1st Javelin
Ethan Hughes 🥇1st 3000m
Xavier Mackie 🥈2nd 3000m
Dylan Snare 🥈2nd Shot
Cain Pritchard 🥉3rd Shot
Morgan Rees 🥉3rd High Jump

U18 Girls

Lily Jacklin🥇1st 3000m
Megan Quirk 🥇1st 800m
Megan Swanson 🥈 2nd 800m

U18 Boys

Garyn Tough 🥈2nd 800m

Senior Men

Garin Meredith 🥇1st 400m
Adrian Lewis 🥉3rd 400m
🥈2nd 3000m

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🥉 A huge congratulations to our senior Athlete Ben Parker on his fantastic success at the BUCS Athletics Championships in Cardiff last weekend 👏

Competing for Loughborough University Athletics in his first year, Ben proudly returned home with a Bronze medal🥉 with an amazing jump of 7m 45 what a great start to the track season.🎉💪🏼
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A huge good luck to our little stars and future legends! Betty Lancaster and Noah Howells are taking on the London mini marathon, this is a huge event for them an no doubt they will do phenomenally well! We are so so proud of you both