Welsh internationals Jenny Nesbitt and Ieuan Thomas are amongst the world class elite fields competing at the Great Manchester Run 10K on Sunday. Nesbitt will be lining up alongside the likes of Kenyan legends Hellen Obiri and two-time World Marathon Champion Edna Kiplagat.

Welsh race walkers Heather Lewis and Bethan Davies will be part of an eight-strong team representing Great Britain at the European Race Walking Cup in Lithuania on Sunday. Pembrokeshire athlete Lewis travels to Alytus as the current British women’s number one following an excellent first half of 2019.

Local rivalries can usually be counted on to add spice to any sport and this Sunday a Severnside derby will be reintroduced to the British American Football League. The South Wales Warriors will cross the Severn Bridge to face the Apache in competitive action for the first time since the Bristol side entered the league in 2011. Like trains passing through the Severn tunnel the pair missed each other in 2018. The Warriors started their first season back in the bottom tier in seven years as the Apache found themselves in Division One having won promotion from Division Two in 2017. 

Wales has hosted the British round of the World Rally Championship since  2000, first in Cardiff and now in north Wales. But this October’s event could be the last for a few years at least with plans for a rotation system, starting in Northern Ireland next year. Here Dai Sport’s rallying expert, Paul Evans, looks at the reasons why it could be moved, including Phytophthora ramorum the unstoppable Larch tree killing disease threating the forests in north Wales.

Jess Roberts made it three wins from three races in the Aberdeen round of the OVO Energy Tour Series as the British Road Race Champion continues to dominate in the women’s series. The 20-year-old from Carmarthen’s victory on the streets of the Granite city made her the first female to take three consecutive race wins since the series began in 2010.

Gerwyn Price opened the night with an 8-3 victory over Peter Wright but his hopes of reaching next week’s play-offs at the O2 were later ended by Daryl Gurney. Victory saw the Welshman momentarily jump above Gurney and Mensur Suljovic onto 18 points but recognised a win for one or the other would see him miss out.

Anwen Butten led Wales to glory on home turf when they struck gold at the Atlantic Championships. The experienced Welsh skipper and her rookie team swept all before them as they took the women’s fours crown at Cardiff’s Penylan club. Commonwealth Games veteran Butten, Ysie White, Bethan Russ and Melanie Thomas came back from behind against South Africa in their week-long quest for gold.

Taekwondo has been one of the great success stories of Welsh sport in recent years thanks to Jade Jones sensationally winning Olympic gold in London 2012, then retaining the title at Rio 2016. Now, another Wales star is set to join the Flint fighter on the global stage when Lauren Williams bids to be crowned World Champion in the -67Kg category in Manchester this week. While Jones will be aiming to claim the one major medal missing from her collection, Williams will be battling to make it double gold for GB Taekwondo and underline her status as a major contender for the Tokyo Olympics next year.

Swansea University’s Hayley Baker will coach the Great Britain swimming team at this year’s World University Summer Games in Naples. The 39-year-old was selected from a talented pool of coaches at universities across Britain for this summer’s event, which takes place from 3-14 July. Originally from the north west of England, Baker arrived in Swansea in 2007 after a spell as head coach at Bolton Metro. She took up a position as coach at Swansea Aquatics, before eventually becoming head coach of Swansea University’s swimming programme last year.

An exciting new series of 10K races kicks off in Caerphilly on Sunday with cash prizes and prestigious titles up for grabs to the overall winners. The Welsh Road 10K Series features five major races staged around Wales with points from each event added up to decide who will be crowned series champions. The competition will showcase some of Wales’s great 10Ks, including the Cardiff 10K in the south and the Flintshire 10K in north Wales.

Jonathan Humphreys admits he will leave Scotland to return to Wales with a tear in his eye – but wants a trophy to soothe the pain. The former Wales captain is due to link up with Wayne Pivac this summer as they shadow Warren Gatland and his current coaches, before taking over from them after the World Cup. But before then, Humphreys – who has spent six years coaching in Scotland – has his attention fixed on Friday’s Guinness Pro 14 semi-final between his Glasgow Warriors side and Ulster.

Great Britain 3, USA 6 Great Britain produced one of their best World Championship performances in a quarter of a century at the Steel Arena in Slovakia. Bowns faced 65 shots and capped an outstanding personal display by denying teenager Jack Hughes in the closing stages. Hughes, who will be first or second NHL pick […]

Young Ioan Lloyd scored a convincing Formula 1000 Junior Rally Championship win on the Melbourne Junior Rally at the weekend to move up to fourth in the points table – just four points off second place. Having rolled his Citroen C1 last time out on the Altratech SMC Stages at Anglesey Circuit, a rapid turnaround by West Wales Rally Spares and Rick’s Bodyshop saw the car repaired in time for the next event. And their hard work was rewarded when the Llandysul teenager drove brilliantly to win comfortably at the recent round of the series, which was held at Melbourne Airfield in East Yorkshire.

Welsh forward Matthew Myers reflected on Great Britain’s 9-0 World Championship defeat against Denmark and said: “It wasn’t us out there against Denmark and it hurt us. “We were a shadow of ourselves from the match against Germany on the first night and it reflected on the scoreboard.”  Cardiff Devils player Myers says the team […]

Harrison Walsh saw his hopes of representing Wales at the sport he loved most wrecked by a freak injury playing the game that had given him so much joy. But, rather than being bitter, Mumbles-born Harrison switched his focus and is now targeting pulling on the famous red vest at the Commonwealth Games and a British one […]

Ospreys head coach Allen Clarke has revealed his team are fighting fit for their crunch Heineken Champions Cup play-off clash with the Scarlets. Clarke’s men will boast home advantage for the winner-takes-all Liberty Stadium clash on Saturday evening (kick-off 7.45pm). Whoever comes out on top will seal a place in the Champions Cup – European […]

Neil Warnock wants to extend his promotion record to nine by leading Cardiff City to an instant return to the Premier League. And then the Bluebirds boss plans to hand over to a successor he will help the club find. Warnock has agreed to see out the final year of his contract after talks in […]

Head coach Anthony Walker hopes Friday’s Wales Rugby League U19s game with Ireland will set his squad up for another successful summer. Walker, who coached Wales to bronze in last year’s European U19 Championships, will select from a 20-man squad for the game at Stebonheath Park in Llanelli (KickOff 7pm) The squad have been preparing […]

The final result may not show it, but Matt Parry and the R-Motorsport team left round two of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in good heart, having taken significant steps in the development of their Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Running the all-new Vantage for only the second time in competition, the team was not […]

Dean Ryan is stepping back in time to try to re-build the Dragons into a major force in Welsh rugby. The former Worcester Warriors and Gloucester head coach has quit his job at the RFU, where he has been head of international player development since 2016, to try to breathe new life into the Gwent side as their new director or rugby. “I don’t think I’m turning my back on the RFU. It is about finding something I am excited about and gives me back the ability to go and compete with people again in a sporting environment,” said the four times capped former England No 8.