Cardiff Met athletes confirmed for Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
Huge congratulations to three Cardiff Met alumni who are heading to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina (6 to 22 February).
They follow in the footsteps of many former Archers to compete on the world’s biggest stage and represent an amazing achievement for our University community.
Adele Nicoll
Former Cardiff Met student, staff member and coach Adele Nicoll has been highlighted by Team GB as one of their athletes to watch at the upcoming Games.
Nicoll, a three-time British shot put champion, took up bobsleigh in 2020 and now makes her Olympic debut as a bobsleigh pilot in both the monobob and two-woman events, becoming the first British female to compete at a Winter Olympics in monobob
Her place on Team GB’s core sliding squad comes after competing as a reserve in Beijing 2022 and achieving strong results on the World Cup and European Cup circuits.
Adele studied Clinical Neuroscience at Cardiff Met and was awarded a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2023.
Leon Greenwood
Congratulations also to Leon Greenwood, a BSc Sport and Physical Education graduate who represented Cardiff Met as both a sprinter and basketball athlete during his time studying at Cardiff Met from 2015-2018.
Leon joined the British Bobsleigh programme in 2022 and has since earned medals at World and European Championships.
He has now been selected for Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh crew, marking his first Olympic Games appearance.
Mica Moore
Our third Olympian is former women’s sprinter Mica Moore, who has been selected to represent Jamaica in bobsleigh at her second Winter Olympics, competing in the women’s monobob.
Mica, who studied BSc Education and Sport and MSc Sport Broadcasting at Cardiff Met and still trains at the National Indoor Athletics Centre, previously represented Great Britain in the two-women bobsleigh event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Her selection is a powerful reminder that sporting excellence crosses borders and disciplines.
Mica recently recorded a video about her Olympic hopes, filmed and edited by one of Joe Towns’ Sport Broadcast MSc students, Devin Pote.
We’ll be cheering on Adele, Leon and Mica as they compete on the world’s biggest winter sports stage. Good luck/pob lwc to all three.