By Owen Morgan Current World Champions Aled Davies, Hollie Arnold and Olivia Breen will lead a seven-strong Welsh contingent heading to the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. Wales’ golden trio will be joined – on November 7 to 15 – by WPA European Champions Sabrina Fortune and Harri Jenkins, along with Disability Sport Wales […]

Welsh athletes will be out in force at the Manchester International athletics meeting on Wednesday night. As well as a Wales national team, there will be a strong contingent of Welsh athletes in the Great Britain Juniors team, League Select and two All Star Select teams, who will compete against England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Welsh throwing will be particularly well represented by a number of athletes who have enjoyed a season of titles, records and representative honours.

WALES 18 IRELAND 12 By Ian Golden, Peffermill Playing Fields, Edinburgh Wales ended the Student Four Nations Championships with a well-deserved win over Ireland with 16-year old Keiron Lewis scoring the winning try with the final move of the game.

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 […]

Wales Students will be playing a Four Nations warm-up game this Sunday at Monmouth RFC when they take on South West of England Lionhearts (kick-off 2.30pm). This match will give their players valuable game-time before they take on England, Ireland and hosts Scotland this summer.

Wales’ greatest current Paralympian, Aled Davies, believes he is on the way back to his best after a difficult year. As he tells Owen Morgan, the secret behind his optimism is a new two-stones heavy leg brace that can stand up to the rigours of the discuss and shot circle and the forces he brings to competition. Aled Davies is hoping to put the trials and tribulations of last year behind him after successfully completing his first competition of 2019. Although Davies won double gold in the discus and shot put at the World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin last summer, his season was plagued with problems surrounding the leg brace he wears to compete.

Athletics fans heading to the Welsh Indoor Championships in Cardiff this weekend will enjoy the added bonus of seeing some of Europe’s top decathletes and heptathletes in action. The National Indoor Athletics Centre will host a combined events international match as well as the annual national indoor championships. A Great Britain team, featuring three-time Welsh Commonwealth Games competitor Ben Gregory, will take on France, Poland, Spain and the Czech Republic in an international match running alongside the domestic showdowns.

The WRL Premier League East side had too much in the tank for a battling North Wales Origin side in the second match of the 2018 WRL Origin Series on at Sardis Road on Sunday. This encounter was the third game in a triple header on this particular day, the under 15 and 13 encounters between East and West Wales were played in torrential rain but the heavens closed for the senior encounter with the sun even threatening to come out during the second half.

A combination of pent up aggression and sticky tape saw Aled Davies through to winning his second gold medal of the World Para Athletics European Championships on Sunday. The world record holder’s problem-plagued season continued as he snapped his leg brace during the men’s F63 shot put final in Berlin. With the competition still in the balance, Davies was forced to improvise by carrying out an emergency repair job on the brace with some sticky tape.

Aled Davies completed the first part of his triple double bid when striking gold in the discus in the F63 event on day four at the World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin. Davies broke the championship record with five of his six throws to finish with a mark of 50.55m and will now bid for another gold in the shot put.

George North and his fellow Ospreys new boys have been told to hit the ground running when the new Guinness Pro14 season starts. The demand has been made by head coach Allen Clarke – preparing for his first full season in charge by attempting to blend a new-look team quickly into the groove. North will make his Ospreys debut against English champions Saracens in London on Thursday.

Joe Brier enjoyed a triumphant homecoming at the Welsh Athletics International in Swansea following his medal-winning performance at the World Junior Championships. Brier, who helped Great Britain to a 4x400m bronze medal in Finland, followed up that performance by winning the individual 400m at Swansea University’s Sport Campus.