By David Williams Matt Richards added a silver medal to add to Medi Harris’ silver in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay final at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. Richards secured a silver medal in a thrilling Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay finale alongside Tom Dean, Anna Hopkin and Freya Anderson. As was the overriding tactic, […]

Osian Pryce maintains his strong challenge for the 2022 British Rally Championship title after finishing runner-up in the Voyonic Grampian Forest Rally. It was the second time in as many years that the Machynlleth-born driver had finished second on the Aberdeenshire forestry event, as he and co-driver Noel O’Sullivan enjoyed another fast and trouble-free run in their Demon Tweeks-backed Melvyn Evans Motorsport-prepared Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. As the highest placed returnee, Pryce started this year’s Grampian Forest Rally first on the road – which turned out to be a disadvantage as he swept the loose gravel off the surface in the fast and flowing Durris, Fetteresso and Drumtochty forests.

By Owen Morgan Jake Heyward overcame feeling unwell to claim a place in the 1500m final as four Welsh athletes featured on the first day of the European Athletics Championships in Munich. Less than a fortnight after finishing fifth at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Heyward battled through to Thursday’s final as one of the […]

Welsh Fencing is celebrating a highly successful Senior Commonwealth Championships in which Wales won four medals, including gold for Gemma Collis. The London event – which saw teams from all over the Commonwealth compete in a sport that used to be part of the Games itself – yielded a gold, two silvers and a bronze for Wales. Leading the way was para fencer Collis, who took gold in the wheelchair women’s foil, category A competition.

Non Stanford has admitted she surprised herself when she brought the curtain down on her brilliant international triathlon career by becoming European champion. Wales’ biggest name in the sport went out in a blaze of glory at the weekend, by finishing first at Munich’s multi-sports European Championships. A full nine years since she became world champion back in 2013, the 33-year-old from Swansea rolled back the years in her final major competition – just a fortnight after she helped Wales win silver at the Commonwealth Games in the mixed triathlon relay.

By Harry Corish Benjamin Pritchard has admitted he left no stone unturned at the European Championships in Munich, after the Swansea para rower won bronze in the PR1 Men’s Single Sculls (PR1 M1x) event. Pritchard, 30, who had agonisingly missed out on a medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games last summer, safely navigated his way […]

Medi Harris’s breakthrough summer now has a golden glow after Great Britain were crowned champions in the women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the European Aquatics Championships. The Welsh swimmer had already taken silver in the 4 x 200m freestyle team in Rome to add to her Commonwealth Games bronze medal for Wales in the women’s 100m backstroke in Birmingham. Now, she has won three medals in two weeks and has the prospect of individual glory after making it through to the semi-finals of the 100m backstroke, having already finished fifth in the 50m backstroke final.

Mahlon Romeo has told his Cardiff City teammates they must set higher standards if they want to continue their impressive start to the Championship season. The Bluebirds defender – who arrived from Millwall as part of manager Steve Morison’s summer revolution – is demanding his teammates raise their expectations as they find themselves fifth in the table after three matches with their next game away to West Brom on Wednesday night. Romeo has started in all three of Cardiff’s matches so far and the 26-year-old looks as if he will be a key player for the club this season.

By Owen Morgan Welsh rugby fans have rarely had to be encouraged to enjoy a drink during a game. But the PA announcer’s reminder for fans to drink plenty ahead of  Saturday’s Pontypridd v London Welsh friendly had more to do with health and safety than any desire to boost the Sardis Road bar takings. […]

By Gareth James Michael Obafemi believes Swansea City can build quickly on their first win of the season – starting with the chance of back-to-back victories on Tuesday night. Millwall are the visitors to the Swansea.com Stadium where Russell Martin’s side will be hoping to extend the momentum of their weekend 1-0 win at Blackpool. […]

England international and BBC broadcaster Alex Hartley is full of optimism ahead of Welsh Fire’s opening match against Birmingham Phoenix at Sophia Gardens on Saturday. The left-arm spinner is making her second appearance in The Hundred tournament, but this season she has swapped her Manchester Originals jersey for Welsh Fire. She insists she has hit the ground running with her new squad, beginning with some team bonding.

Medi Harris believes she is growing into her status as a medal-winning international swimmer after backing up her Commonwealth Games bronze medal with a silver at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. The rising Welsh star combined with Freya Colbert, Lucy Hope, and Freya Anderson to get Britain on the medal table on the opening night in Italy with second place in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay final In their second swim together as a quartet, Colbert, Hope, Harris and Anderson kept themselves in contention for the European title from lane one throughout a thrilling race, before ultimately touching for silver behind the Netherlands. The silver medal follows Harris’s bronze in Birmingham last week in the final of the women’s 100m backstroke.

The JD Cymru Premier returns tonight celebrating its 30th anniversary season – but Wales’ national league continues to battle against a lack of mainstream support. Since its inception in 1991, when the FAW succumbed to international pressure from other FIFA nations over its lack of its own dedicated national league, the league has endured a […]

Cardiff City boss Steve Morison believes his young striker Isaak Davies was hung out to dry in the recent transfer stalemate with Burnley. A fee of £2.5m was allegedly offered by last season’s Premier League fall guys to Cardiff for the 20-year-old earlier this week and was immediately turned down by the Bluebirds. But Morison believes the way in which the deal was aired in public has left the player with a burden to carry when he returns to action after recovering from a knee injury.

Sport, and life in general, is all about standout moments. For many, the singular moment of the Commonwealth Games 2022 involved Welsh athlete Olivia Breen If we are being picky, then three different moments from Breen encapsulated everything that is good about sport.

Adele Nicoll is already an international athlete in two sports, but it would seem a reasonable bet to place on her one day making it a hat-trick. Adele said hello to bobsleigh after first emerging as a talented track and field athlete and she finds trying new sports just as satisfying as winning. The 25-year-old from Welshpool competed for Team Wales at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in shot put, where her recent rapid progress in the sport enabled her to finish eighth.

Elfyn Evans had admitted to more feelings of frustration after reflecting on finishing fourth at Rally Finland. Evans had been fighting for victory until he clipped a rock on Saturday’s penultimate stage – the impact with an inside wheel breaking a damper on his Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid. The 50 seconds that he and co-driver Scott Martin lost limping through the day’s final stage (SS18, Vekkula 2) crushed any hopes that they had of repeating last year’s Rally Finland win.

Newport County assistant manager Carl Serrant believes his team’s notable EFL Cup win at Luton Town underlines the growing depth in the Exiles’ squad. James Waite scored the late winner as League Two County upset Championship side Luton in the Carabao Cup first round, winning 3-2 at Kenilworth Road. Luton went ahead on 30 minutes courtesy of a stunning 35-yard drive into the top corner by Carlos Mendes Gomes, but were pegged back six minutes later as Lewis Collins equalised.

The final medal has been awarded, the last anthem played, and some of the temporary venues are already being dismantled. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is over and it’s on to Victoria, Australia in four year’s time. Owen Morgan reflects on what he has seen. Birmingham, you were absolutely bostin’! From the weather to the welcome . . . with a huge dollop of world class sport in between.

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Charlotte CAREY (WAL) and Anna HURSEY (WAL) after they beat WONG Xin Ru (SGP) and ZHOU Jingyi (SGP) in the women’s doubles bronze medal match at The NEC on Monday. Charlotte CAREY (WAL) – bronze