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It was a golden year for Welsh football, but apart from Gareth Bale’s free-kicks, the Red Wall of fans, and the touchline celebrations, how much else about Welsh sport in the past 12 months has stuck inside your cranium? Take the Dai Sport Quiz of 2016 and find out. Answers under each picture, so no cheat scrolling.
1) Who scored Wales’ first and last goals during their incredible Euro 2016 finals campaign in France?
Pic: Getty Images.
Answer: Gareth Bale and Sam Vokes.
2) Wales lost their Six Nations match to Grand Slam-winning England, 25-21 at Twickenham. But what was the try count?
Answer: England 1, Wales 3.
3) How many managers have Newport County had in 2016?
Answer: 3
John Sheridan, Warren Feeney, Graham Westley (Sean McCarthy/James Bittner did have a short spell tiger as caretaker-managers in September/October).
4) Which two Welsh taekwondo competitors won European titles this year?
Answer: Jade Jones and Lauren Williams.
5) They are on course to do it again, but when did Cardiff Devils last win British ice hockey’s top flight league title?
Answer: 1997
6) How many countries are represented within Cardiff City’s current first team squad as of December 2016?
Answer: 13
England, Wales, Gabon, Benin, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Ivory Coast, Iceland, Scotland, Denmark, Canada, Morocco, France.
7) Which former West Ham and Wales midfield player took over as manager at Southern League Merthyr Town FC?
Answer: Gavin Williams
8) Before the Wales v England match at the Euro 2016 finals, Gareth Bale caused controversy by claiming few England players would get into the Wales team. Exactly how many?
Answer: 0
9) Which Welsh cyclist won the Paris-Nice race for the first time in 2016?
Answer: Geraint Thomas
10) How many consecutive victories did TNS achieve to equal the European record for most consecutive wins in a country’s top level league?
Answer 26
11) Who won his 100th cap for Wales in the 1st Test against New Zealand in Auckland in June?
Answer: Alun Wyn Jones
12) How many races did Wales’ Chaz Davies win in this year’s World Superbikes Championships?
Pic: Getty Images.
Answer: 4 (including three games when Francesco Guidolin was ill).
15) The year is ending with Sir Bradley Wiggins announcing his retirement. But which Welsh cyclist won gold with Wiggins in Rio and will ride for Team Sky in 2017?
Answer: Owain Doull.
16) Which Welsh swimmer was narrowly pipped to a medal at the Rio Olympics?
Answer: Chloe Tutton (she was fourth in the 200m breaststroke).
17) Which former semi-professional rugby player in Wales won table tennis gold at the Rio Paralympics?
Answer: Rob Davies
18) Which Wales player leapt onto the dressing room table to perform an impressive dance routine after Wales had beaten Northern Ireland, 1-0, to make the quarter-finals of Euro 2016?
Answer: Joe Ledley.
19) Dean Keates took over as Wrexham manager in 2016, hoping to get them promoted back into the Football League. But how many promotions did he win as a player?
Answer: 6 (Walsall 3, Peterborough 2, Hull).
20) Who called who a “gypsy boy”, how much did it cost him, and who did the WRU force to apologise for describing the remark as “banter”?
Answer: England prop Joe Marler said it to Wales prop Samson Lee. It cost Marler a 20k fine. And Warren Gatland was made to say sorry.
