Adele Nicoll

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 and 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.

Adele Nicoll

Nicoll at the IBSF World Championships 2025
Personal information
Full name	Adel Mia Nicoll
Nationality	British (Welsh)
Born	(1996-09-28) 28 September 1996 (age 29)
Years active	c. 2011– (athletics) 2020– (bobsleigh)
Height	5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm)[1]
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Shot put Discus throw Bobsleigh
Club	Birchfield Harriers
Achievements and titles
National finals	2014–2024 inclusive (athletics)
Commonwealth finals	2022
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Bobsleigh World Cup 2022 Sigulda 2-woman 2024 Lake Placid 2-woman British Athletics Championships 2021 Manchester Shot put 2022 Manchester Shot put 2023 Manchester Shot put 2025 Birmingham Shot put British Indoor Athletics Championships 2022 Birmingham Shot put

Athletics career

Nicoll started competing in athletics for the Birchfield Harriers at the age of 14.^[2] She reached the final of the shot put event at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics.^[1] 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.^[3]

Nicoll came third in the under-23s shot put event at the 2017 European Throwing Cup.^[4] As of 2021, she had won the previous eight shot put events at the Welsh Athletics Championship;^[5] her distance at the 2021 Welsh Athletics Championships was above the qualifying threshold for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.^[3] At the 2021 British Athletics Championships, Nicoll came third in the shot put event.^[6]

Nicoll came third in the shot put event at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, throwing a personal best distance of 17.02 metres.^[7] The event was a week after she had returned from the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.^[1] At the 2022 Welsh Athletics Championships, Nicoll won both the shot put and discus events.^[8] In June 2022, she was selected in the Welsh team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the shot put event.^[2] Later that month, she became the British shot put champion after winning the shot put event at the 2022 British Athletics Championships;^[9] she had previously finished in third place in seven editions of the championships.^[10] At the Commonwealth Games, Nicoll finished 8th in the shot put event with a distance of 17.30 metres.^[11] Nicoll won the shot put event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships^[12] and in 2025 won her third British outdoor title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.

Bobsleigh career

In 2020, Nicoll took up bobsleigh after being approached on Instagram by Mica McNeill, who had seen videos on social media of Nicoll exercising.^[5][13] She spent most of the 2020–21 season in training,^[13] and lost almost 20 kilograms (3.1 st; 44 lb) of body weight in order to compete.^[5]

At the 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup, Nicoll competed in some events with McNeill, who also competed in events alongside Mica Moore and Montell Douglas. Nicoll, Moore and Douglas were all attempting to earn a place with McNeill for the 2-woman event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.^[5] In January 2022, Nicoll and McNeill finished second in the World Cup event in Sigulda, Latvia.^[14][15] It was the first time that a British woman had won a Bobsleigh World Cup medal for 13 years, and it was Nicoll's second World Cup event.^[14] That month, McNeill and Douglas were confirmed as Britain's selections for the Olympics;^[16] Nicoll travelled to the Games as a reserve.^[15] Two weeks after the Olympics, she attended a bobsleigh driving school in Lake Placid, New York, US.^[2] In the 2022–23 season, Nicoll started working as a pilot, in the monobob event.^[17]

For the 2023–24 season, Nicoll moved from brakewoman to pilot in the 2-woman bobsleigh, where she competed alongside Kya Placide.^[18] At the 2023–24 IBSF Bobsleigh European Cup in Lillehammer, Nicoll and debutant Placide finished third in the first 2-women bobsleigh event, and fifth in the second competition. Nicoll and Maddison Ilsley finished sixth in the third competition at the event.^[19] At the European Cup in St. Moritz, Nicoll and Placide won the 2-women bobsleigh event, and Nicoll came second in the monobob event.^[20] At the 2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup event in Lake Placid, US, Nicoll and Placide finished second in the 2-women bobsleigh event.^[21]

Personal life

Nicoll is from Welshpool, Wales.^[13] She attended Welshpool High School,^[22] and later studied clinical neuroscience at Cardiff Metropolitan University, graduating in 2020.^[1] She has appeared on the BBC Three programme Go Hard Or Go Home.^[21]