Ben Pritchard admitted he felt deflated after failing to improve on a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade. Swansea’s Great Britain para rower collected a second successive bronze in the PR1 men’s single sculls.

Rob Davies will bid for his fifth consecutive European title at the ITTF European Para Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield on Thursday. The Welsh star is in the final of the men’s class 1, where he will take on Endre Major of Hungary.

Matthew Maynard has admitted County Championship promotion is now a long shot for Glamorgan after their defeat to rivals Worcestershire. The Midlands county strengthened their own grip on second place in Division Two of the LV=Insurance County Championship as they won by 80 runs at New Road.

Ruby Evans has become the first female Welsh artistic gymnast to be named in a Great Britain squad for a senior World Championship for 17 years. The 16-year-old has been named in the GB women’s artistic team for the upcoming World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Osian Pryce reminded fans why he is the reigning British rally champion by winning the biggest and most prestigious rally in the UK – the 2023 JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion. It was the second time that the 30-year-old Machynlleth-born driver had won the close road stage event, having clinched victory there in 2019.

Ian Godney took maximum J D Tyres Welsh Tarmacadam Championship points on the Mewla Rally, after a great run over the Epynt military range in his Suzuki Swift Maxi 2000. With series leader Chris Simmons not competing on the event, Godney (co-driven by Stewart Powell) seized the opportunity to close the gap at the head of the series.

Osian Pryce will lead a star-studded field away at the start of this weekend’s JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion (2-3 September) as the reigning British rally champion contests the event in a Melvyn Evans Motorsport-prepared Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. Pryce won the event in 2019 (when it ran for the first time as Wales’ first ever closed road stage rally) driving a Hyundai i20 R5 and finished second (to Hayden Paddon/Jared Hudson) last year in a Polo – and starts this year’s event as number one seed.

As the world’s leading players eye Paralympic gold, the battle for supremacy in one para table tennis class could come down to a clash of two Welsh friends. Wheelchair athletes Rob Davies and Tom Matthews are both training partners and rivals and, as two of the best in the game, have their sights set on the same top prize.

Michael Jenkins rounded off the “most intense” season of his burgeoning career at the Welsh Athletics Under-20 International match in Cardiff last weekend. The brilliant 19-year-old burst onto the global stage in July by winning an F38 shot put silver medal on his World Para Athletics Championships debut in Paris.

Wales’ dominance of women’s race walking within the UK looks set to continue for the foreseeable future in the shape of Pembrokeshire Harrier Gracie Griffiths. The 17-year-old is quite literally following in the footsteps of her coach Heather Warner and Bethan Davies – Britain’s outstanding race walkers of recent years.

Four-time European champion Rob Davies and Commonwealth champion Joshua Stacey are the Welsh pair heading an 18-strong British squad for the ITTF European Para Table Tennis Championships, which start next week.

Winning the Wales Golf junior championships turned into a family affair as Thomas and Ffion Richardson became the first brother and sister to win both on the same day.

Welsh para star Laura Sugar admits she was unsure she would continue her dominance at the Para-canoe World Championships held in Duisburg, Germany. Sugar secured her third consecutive world title to continue her grip on the KL3 category where she was the clear favorite to win.

Tammy Beaumont admitted she felt devastated after the rain denied Welsh Fire a chance to contend the final of the women’s Hundred. The Fire captain and her team were left disappointed as a downpour at The Oval meant their eliminator against Northern Superchargers was abandoned.

Natasha Cockram revealed that regular hot tubs after training runs during the brief summer heatwave helped her prepare for the Hungarian hothouse she faced at the World Championships.

Geraint Thomas insists he can get his head down and pedal hard this weekend as he has the rest of his life “to chill and drink cocktails.” Thomas lead Ineos Grenadiers into the Vuelta a España, knowing his career is in its late stages.

From laughing-stock to record-breakers, from online abuse to on-field winners, the turnaround in fortunes for Welsh Fire Women this season is dramatic. As they trained in the Cardiff sunshine before heading up to London for Saturday’s Eliminator against Northern Superchargers, there was one more transformation possible for Tammy Beaumont’s team – from Hundred Wooden Spooners to Champions. Bottom of the table for last two seasons – one win last season after getting just two the year before – they were even bottom of the table in the abandoned 2020 season, though admittedly that was alphabetical order!

Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club completed the double by winning the Women’s Team Championship, following on from the men winning their Welsh title last week.

Welsh Fire’s bid to make the finals day of the men’s Hundred have been ended by Southern Brave. Fire needed Manchester Originals to beat Brave in order for the Cardiff-based outfit to make Sunday’s eliminator.

Melissa Courtney-Bryant has admitted she was left feeling disappointed after her 12th place finish in the final of the women’s 1500m at World Athletics Championships. The Wales Commonwealth Games star struggled to stay with the pace in the second half of the race and crossed the line as the last of the finalists in 4:03.31.