Young Welsh sailors might glide across the water without too much bother, but now they should be finding life on the road a bit easier, too. Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Cymru have just taken possession of eight vehicle trailers that will allow them to ferry young sailors – and their dinghies – around the country far more smoothly. It should make transport far easier for parents, with the youngsters now able to travel as a small group, and also allow much more regional and even national activity rather than limiting promising young sailors to their local clubs.

By Owen Morgan Adele Nicoll is already an international athlete in two sports, but it would seem a reasonable bet to place on her one day making it a hat-trick. Adele said hello to bobsleigh after first emerging as a talented track and field athlete and she finds trying new sports just as satisfying as […]

Welsh gymnast Jemima Taylor has been selected to represent Great Britain at the upcoming Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Turkey. Taylor, from Bassaleg, aged 13, will be accompanied to Antalya as part of the travelling British delegation by Welsh head national women’s artistic coach Tracey Skirton-Davies. The event takes place from 29th March to 2nd April.

Leah Wilkinson – Wales’ most capped sportsperson with over 200 appearances for her country – has announced her international retirement. The Great Britain Olympian has chosen to bring down the curtain on a 19-year Test career that spanned 204 appearances for Wales and GB. The 36-year-old will continue to play club hockey for Surbiton, but her decision to leave the international arena means the end of an era for hockey in Wales.

Welsh athletes experienced mixed fortunes at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul. Melissa Courtney-Bryant led the way by winning Great Britain’s first medal of the championships on Friday evening when she claimed bronze in the 3,000m. However, sprinters Jeremiah Azu and Joe Brier, had to content themselves with sixth and fifth-placed finishes in the 60m and 4x400m events respectively.

Melissa Courtney-Bryant believes a medal at the European Indoor Athletics Championships is reward for the resilience she has shown since suffering Olympics heartbreak. The Wales Commonwealth Games bronze medalist in 2018, took bronze again in Istanbul on Friday night in the 3,000m to add to her bronze at the same championships in Glasgow four years ago. But in between times, Courtney-Bryant has had to battle back from a foot injury that wrecked her dream of competing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo two years ago.

Melissa Courtney-Bryant made sure she stayed out of trouble and expended as little energy as possible to reach the 3,000m final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul. Running in a slow second heat in Turkey on Thursday night, Courtney-Bryant had to keep her wits about her to stay out of trouble and eventually finish fourth to secure a place in Friday evening’s final. With a short turnaround between heats and final, the 2018 Welsh Commonwealth Games 1500m bronze medallist said afterwards: “I just wanted to do as little as possible today, we’ve only got 23 hours before the final.

Welsh teenager Grace Williams, who won Para table tennis gold with Fliss Pickard in the women’s class 14 doubles at the World Championships in Spain last November, starts her bid for Paralympic qualification next week in the Costa Brava Spanish Para Open taking place in Platja d’Aro from March 9-11. The 19-year-old student from Llanfyllin is currently World number 17 in women’s class 8 and is looking to improve that ranking over the next 12 months during the qualification period for the Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024.

Welsh paratriathlete Darren Williams continues to fly the Welsh flag with pride after his life changed dramatically when the birth of his first child was followed three weeks later by another life-changing incident. The 35-year-old, from Cardigan, was travelling on the back of a motorbike in April 2014 when he was involved in a road traffic collision near Gwbert. Williams spent the next 11 months in hospital, recovering from the accident which saw him airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

Ruby Evans got her senior career off to a sensational start as she bagged two medals for Great Britain at the FIG Artistic World Cup series event in Cottbus, Germany, over the weekend. The 15-year-old women’s artistic gymnast from Cardiff, who attends Ysgol Plasmawr, took silver on vault and bronze on the floor to cap a remarkable first competition as a senior gymnast. Evans’ average of 13.183 on vault secured silver behind Italian Manila Esposito (13.233).

Former sprinter Olivia Tsim claimed her first Welsh Cross Country title in Brecon on Saturday. The Pontypridd Roadents AC runner, whose athletics career has been dogged by injuries, was competing at her first cross country race in more than 10 years. However, she dominated the 6.89km race from the start and eventually crossed the line in 23:55 to take the senior women’s title ahead of Lucy Marland, of Les Croupiers Running Club and Martha Owen, of Deeside AAC.

Dewi Griffiths returned to winning ways at the Welsh Cross Country Championships in Brecon on Saturday – clocking up a remarkable eighth senior men’s title. The Swansea Harrier is now just one behind Welsh distance running legend Steve Jones, who has nine national cross country crowns to his name. The Carmarthenshire farmer’s latest triumph was a welcome return to form having not won at the event since 2019 due to a mixture of illness, injury and the rise of new Welsh talent.

Welsh stars Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Jeremiah Azu and Joe Brier are heading to next month’s European Indoor Athletics Championships in Turkey. All three have stories to tell behind their selection, with Courtney-Bryant continuing her return to full fitness after lengthy injuries and Brier recently completing his Masters. But it is perhaps Azu who has seen the most radical change to his life over the past few months.

Cardiff-born forward and Sheffield Steelers captain Jonathan Phillips has announced his retirement at the end of the season, after playing an integral role in the rise of Team GB to the elite level of the sport. Former Devils player Phillips has captained the national team since 2012 and holds the all-time appearance record with 111 caps. He is expected to add to that tally at the 2023 IIHF World Championship in Nottingham. While Phillips has played for other teams, including the Devils, Basingstoke Bison, Milton Keynes Lightning, and Passau Black Hawks, Sheffield is his true hockey home.

Gerwyn Price hopes to get back on the horse in Dublin on Thursday night after Scotland unseated him just as he was in full flow. The Welsh star will be aiming for more success when the Premier League Darts roadshow hits the 3Arena in the Irish capital. Price was a proud home winner in Cardiff in round two a fortnight ago and said in the aftermath of that triumph, “Absolutely buzzing to win in Cardiff.

British, European and world goals were gained by Welsh athletes at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Paralympic legend Aled Davies shattered his own F42 world indoor shot put record while finishing fifth in the able bodied competition at the Utilita Arena. On the track, Melissa Courtney-Bryant, claimed gold in the women’s 3,000m and in doing so booked her place on the Great Britain team for next month’s European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

Great Britain’s Artistic World Championship silver medal winning women’s gymnasts are set to top the bill at next month’s Welsh Championships. The 2023 men’s and women’s artistic Welsh Open Championships return to take centre stage at Sport Wales National Centre over the weekend of 11/12 March. And it promises to be an action-packed two days of artistic gymnastics in Cardiff. The women’s artistic action is on Saturday 11th with the men’s competition on Sunday 12th.

Robert Milkins clinched his second career ranking title in a dramatic Welsh Open final, beating Shaun Murphy 9-7. Milkins’ previous ranking title win was at the Gibraltar Open the previous year. “Gibraltar was brilliant but beating Shaun in a final is the icing on the cake. You have to play well to beat Shaun,” said Milkins, 46, in an interview with BBC Wales.

Welsh Fire will be undertaking a major overhaul for their 2023 The Hundred campaign, as they have only retained five players from last year’s squad. The team had a disappointing season in 2022, finishing last in the league table after losing all eight of their matches. In response, they have replaced head coach Gary Kirsten with Mike Hussey and will be very active on draft day, which is set to take place on March 23rd.

Wales women’s head coach Kevin Johnson had admitted he was disappointed to see Sian French become the fourth member of the squad to retire from international hockey in the last five months. Centurion French – who had won 130 caps for Wales – has joined Natasha Fortnam, Sophie Robinson and Julie Read in deciding to end her Test career. French competed for Wales at three Commonwealth games and six European Championships and was a co-captain at the Birmingham Games last summer.