Jake Heyward made a dream debut in the mile to clocked the second fastest time in history by a Welsh athlete in London. The Cardiff runner’s time of 3:54.78 was just 0.39secs off the record set by Newport’s Neil Horsfield in Cork 33 years ago.

by Owen Morgan James Tomlinson led the way as three Welsh athletes contested finals on the final day of the European Under-20 Championships in Sweden on Sunday. The Pembrokeshire discus thrower finished fifth in his final, while Cardiff’s Sarah Omoregie was 10th in the shot put and Newport’s Remi Adebiyi  12th in the 3,000m final. […]

Cardiff City ’s under-18 team have earned back-to-back pre-season wins, beating NK Radomjie in Slovenia and Leicester City at their Belvoir Drive Training Ground. The young Bluebirds won 3-1 against Radomjie’s under-19 team and 6-4 at Leicester. Joel Bagan, Siyabonga Ligendza and Kieron Evans scored City’s goals in Slovania, while Kieron Evans (2), Isaak Davies, […]

Daniel Jervis cut a frustrated figure after the opening session of the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The 23-year-old finished 17th in the 400m freestyle heats of which the top eight went straight to Sunday’s final, ruling Jervis out. Alys Thomas also failed to make it through from her events, finishing 24th in the 100m butterfly in 59.24, 1.04secs outside her trials time.

Exeter City 1, Swansea City 3 Matt Grimes says he was honoured to be made Swansea City captain in their pre-season fixture against home town club Exeter City. Grimes, 24, faced his former club for the first time since sealing his move from St James Park to the Liberty Stadium in January 2015. Grimes was […]

Cardiff City 1, Real Valladolid 1 Cardiff won 4-2 on penalties Omar Bogle scored for the Bluebirds in the final match of their tour to North America. Cardiff City fought out a 1-1 draw against the Spanish La Liga club, owned by Brazilian ace Ronaldo, before winning the penalty shoot-out at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. Bogle […]

By Owen Morgan Cardiff’s Sarah Omoregie says she is determined to make her team and family proud in the European Athletics Under-20 Championships shot put final on Sunday. Omoregie made it a hat-trick of Welsh athletes through to the finals on the last day of the championships as she joined steeplechaser Remi Adebiyi, of Newport, […]

Cardiff Met FC 0, Merthyr Town 1 Ian Traylor fired his 179th goal for Merthyr Town and earned a stunning away win against Welsh Premier League Cardiff Met. ‘Traylz’ struck after four minutes, guiding a header into the far corner, from a superb cross by Lee Lucas at Cyncoed Campus. The Met students, who played in […]

Curzon Ashton 0, Wrexham 2 Wrexham earned their third pre-season win thanks to goals by Leighton McIntosh, from a penalty, and a late Jason Oswell strike. The Wrexham side that started the game was almost a completely new XI from the 3-1 loss against Championship club Stoke City.  Devonte Redmond returned after a short spell […]

Neil Warnock takes on Brazilian legend Ronaldo when his Bluebirds face Spanish team Real Valladolid in Canada overnight. Former World Cup winner Ronaldo, who played for Barcelona, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, now owns La Liga’s Valladolid, bought 51% of club shares last year and is with the team in Canada. The final Cardiff City […]

Neil Warnock has admitted he shed tears with Bruno Manga when it became clear the big defender was leaving Cardiff City. Manga has signed for French Ligue 1 club Dijon FCO, leaving City’s pre-season tour to North America this week, and Warnock said: “Tears were shed between Bruno and I. “It was disappointing because I […]

Plymouth Parkway 1, Cardiff City 5 Former Stoke City trainee Laurence Wootton scored twice for Cardiff City’s development team in their convincing win against Plymouth Parkway at Bolitho Park. The young Bluebirds completed their three-match pre-season tour to Devon and Cornwall with a 100 per cent record, having scored 15 goals and conceded three. City […]

Jeremiah Azu’s bid to become European Under-20 100m champion ended in agony face down on the Ryavallen Athletics Stadium in Sweden on Friday night. It was a heartbreaking end to the Cardiff athlete’s challenge following his stratospheric rise to prominence this year.

Welsh duo Remi Adebiyi and James Tomlinson have booked their places in Sunday’s finals at the European Athletics Under-20 Championships in Sweden. Adebiyi will run in the 3,000m steeplechase, while Tomlinson will be throwing in the discus. Newport Harrier Adebiyi clocked a new personal best as he finished second in his heat on Friday morning. […]

The Betfred World Matchplay starts in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens this weekend with Welshmen Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton centre stage. Both are among the biggest names in the star studded field and will be bidding to lift the Phil Taylor Trophy. The ‘hottest stage in darts’ will host the summer’s biggest darting event broadcast live […]

New Mexico United 1, Cardiff City 1 Omar Bogle reminded Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock what he has to offer by scoring  a stunning goal in North America. The Bluebirds were 1-0 down against New Mexico United when Bogle whipped a free-kick into the top corner. Former Wigan Athletic forward Bogle, aged 26, is a […]

Wales team manager Peter Ryder insists the race record for Ras yr Wyddfa (Snowdon Race) is beatable as the event continues to gain worldwide recognition. For the first time, this year’s race on July 20 will form part of the prestigious World Mountain Running Association World Cup series and means renowned runners from around the […]

Seb Morris is hoping for a change of future and a late-season British GT Championship results boost, starting at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. A campaign that promised so much for the 2017 British GT title winning ‘dream team’ of Morris and driving partner Rick Parfitt Jnr has instead been one of frustration, with the Bentley Continental GT3 duo seeing a bid for a second title victory hampered by bad luck and an unfavourable ‘Balance of Performance’. Last time out at Donington Park in June, they raced as hard as possible and extracted every last bit of performance from the impressively handling No.31 machine. Still, though, they had to settle for a seventh place result during the two-hour contest with the ‘BOP’ having a big impact.

Damian Cole is looking to extend his lead in the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship when he contests tomorrow’s Carryduff Forklift Down Rally in his Get Connected/Energizer-backed Ford Fiesta WRC. The six time champion has an excellent chance to extend his current 17 point lead in the series, as arch rival and defending champion Jason Pritchard is unable to contest the event, as he’s at home awaiting the arrival of a new addition to the family. Having scored maximum points last time out in Belgium, Cole is on top form and after much work seems to have the car working to his liking. The Abergavenny ace will be co-driven by Paul Spooner. Defending British Rally Champion Matt Edwards is contesting the event in his Ford Fiesta R5 as practice for the forthcoming Ulster Rally. The Llandudno driver will be partnered by Paul Morris.

Connah’s Quay Nomads completed the second remarkable European comeback in the space of a week for Welsh football, as they secured a shock win over Kilmarnock in the Uefa Europa League qualifying first round. The Nomads went into the game trailing to a 2-1 first-leg defeat, but second-half goals from Callum Roberts and Callum Morris […]