Sure enough, in 2012 in London Aled came first in the shot put F42-44 and got a second medal – a bronze – in the discus F42. This was a year after he won a silver medal in the discus at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand. And before that, he had already won gold medals at the IWAS World Junior Championships in 2006, 2009 and 2011.
But what do you do when you have achieved your dream? You go on to do even better. And so it was that Aled Davies got four gold medals at the World Championships, in the shot put and discus in 2013 in Lyon, France, and in the same disciplines in 2015 in Doha, Qatar, where the motivational speaker broke his own world record three times.
Aled then went on to win two more gold medals again, shot put and discus at the IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea, Wales, in 2014. This was just weeks after getting a silver medal in the discus at The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where he represented Wales. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, Aled claimed a Paralympic Gold medal in the F63 Shot Put. As well as his competition medals, Aled was awarded an MBE before receiving an OBE in 2022.