Adele Nicoll

Nicoll started competing in athletics for the Birchfield Harriers at the age of 14. She reached the final of the shot put event at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics. Nicoll was not selected in the Welsh squads for the 2014 or 2018 Commonwealth Games; she only reached the B standard for the 2018 Games.

Nicoll came third in the under-23s shot put event at the 2017 European Throwing Cup. As of 2021, she had won the previous eight shot put events at the Welsh Athletics Championship; her distance at the 2021 Welsh Athletics Championships was above the qualifying threshold for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. At the 2021 British Athletics Championships, Nicoll came third in the shot put event.

Nicoll came third in the shot put event at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, throwing a personal best distance of 17.02 metres. The event was a week after she had returned from the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. At the 2022 Welsh Athletics Championships, Nicoll won both the shot put and discus events. In June 2022, she was selected in the Welsh team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the shot put event. Later that month, she became the British shot put champion after winning the shot put event at the 2022 British Athletics Championships; she had previously finished in third place in seven editions of the championships. At the Commonwealth Games, Nicoll finished 8th in the shot put event with a distance of 17.30 metres. Following the Games, Nicoll only trained in shot put one day a week, as her funding from UK Sport covers only bobsleigh and not athletics. Nicoll won the shot put event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships and in 2025 won her third British outdoor title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.

Source: Wikipedia.