NEWPORT sprint star Mica Moore is one of 12 athletes being supported by Welsh Athletics at the Atletica Geneva meeting in Switzerland on Saturday.

The meet is traditionally aimed at sprints, hurdles and jumps and the Welsh athletes will be hoping for excellent conditions when they travel to the Swiss track.

Birchfield Harriers athlete Moore, who will run in the 100m, 200m and the 4x100m relay, is one of three 2014 Commonwealth Games representatives making the trip, alongside fellow sprinter Hannah Thomas and pole vaulter Paul Walker.

Also heading to Geneva are former European 400m hurdles champion Rhys Williams and rising star David Omoregie in the 110m hurdles.

Williams, who served a four-month ban for doping offences last summer, started his season at the Welsh Athletics Regional Championships at the South and East Wales event at Newport’s Spytty Park last month with a modest time of 53.45secs.

They are joined by fellow Welsh athletes Sam Gordon (100m and 200m), Dewi Hammond (100m), Laura Maddox (400m), Elaine O’Neill (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay), Owen Smith (4x100m relay), Emily Wright (long jump) and Iori Moore (200m) – Mica Moore’s cousin.

Along with Hannah Brier and Rachel Johncock, Mica Moore and Hannah Thomas set a new national record for the 4x100m at Glasgow 2014.

The young quartet beat an experienced Trinidad & Tobago team with a time of 44.51 seconds to finish seventh in the final at Hampden Park.

Brier, who was just 16 last summer, has started the 2015 season in fine form.

The 17-year-old Swansea Harrier ran one of the fastest times ever recorded by a Welsh athlete as she stopped the clock at 11.37 seconds over 100m at the Bedford International Games last weekend.

Brier pushed Asha Philip (11.31sec) all the way to the line in a sensational first round of sprints, but with the aid of a +3.2 mps wind.

Later in the day she ran 11.45 sec (+2.4w) to finish second behind Daryll Neita.

Other fast times from Welsh athletes in the past saw Michelle Scutt run a windy 11.3sec in 1980, while Margaret Williams was credited with a wind assisted 11.2sec in Bristol in 1976.

Only Sallyanne Short has clocked a faster electronic time among female Welsh sprinters, a wind-assisted 11.36sec in 1989.

Chepstow sprinter Jenny McLoughlin (Cwmbran Harriers) clocked 14.32 sec to win her 100m para elite race in Bedford and 29.87 sec to finish fourth over 200m.

The 23-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, won bronze in the in T35-38 4x100m relay at the London 2012 Paralympics and silver in the T37 100m for Wales at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.