Helen Miles, Sallyanne Short, Carmen Smart & Sian Morris

Helen Miles, Sallyanne Short, Carmen Smart, and Sian Morris made history at the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games as the first Welsh women’s relay team to win a Commonwealth Games medal, winning bronze in the 4 x 100m in a Welsh record time of 45.37 seconds.

Helen Miles (100m/200m) earned her first Welsh senior title in 1984 aged 17, competed at the Seoul 1988 Olympics, and achieved a personal best of 11.50 seconds for 100m, ranking fourth in Britain at her peak.

Sallyanne Short set an 11.39 Welsh 100m record in 1992 that stood for 32 years, won eleven Welsh titles, and reached the 100m final at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, finishing fifth.

Carmen Smart set the first automatically timed Welsh 100m record at 11.67 in 1982, competed in three Commonwealth Games, and was one of Wales’ finest all-round sprinters.

Sian Morris was a 400m specialist who set a Welsh under-20 record of 52.80 in 1983 — a record that remains unbroken after more than 40 years.