Robert Davies Set For Gold As Fortune Savours The Bronze

Robert Davies remains on track to become the first Welsh gold medal winner at the Rio Paralympics after Sabrina Fortune took bronze on Saturday.

Davies, from Abergavenny, is through to Tuesday’s final of the men’s singles table tennis class 1 category after beating Endre Major from Hungary in Sunday’s semi-final.

Fortune – the 19-year-old F20 shot putter from Flintshire – threw a personal best of 12.94m to secure bronze behind the winner, Poland’s Ewa Durska, with Anastasiia Mysnyk of the Ukraine winning silver.

“You can’t picture something as amazing as this. I came here for a PB. I didn’t think I’d get a medal as well,” Fortune said.

“It was an absolute honour to run around that track with the GB flag flying behind you.

“I just hope, maybe in Tokyo, I’ll get the gold medal and listen to the anthem played.”

Rower Rachel Morris – who has connections with Wales through her parents – won a gold in Sunday’s arms-shoulders single sculls.

The 37-year-old from Farnham, whose family hail from Pembrokeshire, finished ahead of China’s Lili Wang.

It was success in a second sport for Morris, who was third in the road race on her hand bike at London 2012, six weeks after being hit by a car in training.

She said: “To get a gold in a second sport and after a pretty tough run-in has been amazing.

“It’s been a tougher journey than I thought, but I’ve had incredible support.

“I can’t tell you what I’ve gone through to get to this point.

“If anybody can make any difference to somebody else’s life, that’s a massively important thing.

“If that enables somebody else to do something – whether it’s grassroots or elite – then that’s really, really important. That’s what medals are about.

“Yes, it’s personal, but it’s also about giving people a way of believing that they can achieve something.”