Aled Siôn Davies (born 24 May 1991) is a British Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category F42 throwing events.
He won double gold in his home country at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in the shot put and discus.
[1] Davies surpassed both achievements in 2010 when he became IWAS Junior champion in both F42 shot put and discus in the games at Olomouc in the Czech Republic.
[7][8] In 2013 Davies qualified for both shot and discus as part of the British team for the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.
[10] Just days after his victories, Davies was informed that his favoured F42 discus event was to be dropped from the Paralympic program for the 2016 Games in Rio, a decision he campaigned to reverse.
Despite believing he would struggle to regain early form he broke the world record in both the discus and shot put on 6 April 2014.
Davies was joined by members of the Eryri Harriers Athletics Club as the baton was taken to the summit of Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales.
[17] Davies returned to his home country to compete in the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships as he aimed for double gold.
[18][19] In the buildup to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Davies took part in his third IPC World Championships, the 2015 Games in Doha.
Both his favoured events, the discus and the shot put, were contested in the F42 category but after undergoing a hernia operation just ten weeks before Davies was unsure of his form going into the competition.
[24][25] The shot put was held on the second day of the tournament, with Davies throwing two centimetres short of his new record with a distance of 16.11m to take the gold medal.
[27] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, he won the gold medal in the men's shot put F63 event.
[32] The following year, at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships, Davies won his sixth consecutive F63 shot put title.