ADELE Nicoll has paid tribute to the club which helped put her onto the path of British Championship glory.

The Welshpool athlete has enjoyed a remarkable year so far with a place in the British bobsleigh squad for the Winter Olympics in Beijing followed by her call up to the Welsh squad for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Nicoll helped Britain to second place in the 2022 Bobsleigh World Cup event in Latvia alongside Mica McNeill and represented the first time that a British woman had won a Bobsleigh World Cup medal for 13 years.

Since the Powys athlete has been starring in the shot put.

Nicoll will be heading to the Midlands with confidence soaring after being crowned British women’s shot put champion last month.

Border Counties Advertizer: Adele Nicoll in Olympian colours in 2007.

Adele Nicoll in Olympian colours in 2007.

Nicoll praised the border athletics club and underlined its role in putting her on the path to a successful athletics career.

“Oswestry Olympians were so important in my early athletics and a massive part of my career,” said Nicoll who joined the Birmingham-based Birchfield Harriers from the Olympians.

Nicoll studied clinical neuroscience at Cardiff Metropolitan University, graduating in 2020.

Throughout she has maintained her athletics career by dominating the Welsh Championships, winning eight successive shot put events

At the 2022 Welsh Athletics Championships, Nicoll won both the shot put and discus events.

Border Counties Advertizer: Adele Nicoll in Olympian colours in 2009.

Adele Nicoll in Olympian colours in 2009.

Last month, she won the shot put event at the 2022 British Athletics Championships having previously finished in third place in seven editions of the championships.

Nicoll is currently in the form of her life and the 25 year old is confident of challenging for further success this summer when she realises her lifelong dream of representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games.

The new British women’s shot put champion said: “I’m elated to have taken the win.

“I knew I was capable of going 17.50m plus this season but to do it at the British Championships and take gold was an unbelievable feeling.

“I’m in a great place heading towards Commonwealth Games and I am going there with an open mind, knowing that on the day anything is possible and it’s about who will show up and perform.”

“I’m not ruling out a medal,” added the former Welshpool High School student whose career continues to inspire the next generation of track and field talent on both sides of the border.