Sam Gordon and Nell Desir won gold in the Welsh Athletics Championships in Leckwith, Cardiff.
Gordon, 31, ran a time of 10.40 seconds, finishing as the top Welsh runnner.
“It feels really good, I can’t lie.” said Gordon.
“My wife, my son and my in-laws were there, they’re the reason I do it.
“It’s nice when they get to come down and see me do what I love” Gordon said after winning gold.
18-year-old Nell Desir won gold in the women’s 100m running a time of 11.53 seconds.
Desir was only 0.15 seconds from her season’s best.
Poppy Elton won gold in the women’s 1500m with a time of 4 minutes 24 seconds, six seconds ahead of second placed Lilly Grace Oakenfull, while Craig Williams took gold in the men’s event with all three medalists finishing within two seconds of each other.
Ruby Jerges won the women’s long jump, with a jump of 6.22m, in a field that included team Wales Commonwealth Games para-athlete Olivia Breen, who jumped a 4.97m less than a month out from the start of the games in Glasgow.
Cornwall based Patrick Swan continued his impressive week winning gold in the men’s shot put throwing 17.79m. This comes only a week after winning Bronze at the UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
“It feels really good doing a good performance for my home country” said Swan.
“I know I was born in England, but I feel like a patriotic Welshman at heart.”
Osian Parry was the fastest finishing Welshman in the 400m hurdles, running a 52.64, while Sophie Lisk, who finished eighth at the UK Champs, won in the woman’s event with a time of one minute and one second.
“Last year I finished second, so I was really driven to win gold today, so I’m happy” Lisk said.
“I kind of wanted a personal best here today, but trying to recover from back to back races this week has been tough.”
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