Adele Nicoll
British athletics competitor and bobsledder
Adel Mia Nicoll (born 28 September 1996) is a British shot putter, discus thrower and bobsledder. She has won multiple Welsh Athletics Championships events, and won the shot put event at the 2022, 2023 and 2025 UK Athletics Championships. She won the 2023–24 IBSF Bobsleigh European Cup in St. Moritz alongside Kya Placide, and came second in the 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup event in Sigulda, Latvia alongside Mica McNeill, and the 2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup event in Lake Placid alongside Kya Placide. Nicoll was a reserve for the 2022 Winter Olympics, and competed for Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Athletics career
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.
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