By Paul Evans Osian Pryce has claimed victory in the Historic B class at his first attempt at the famous La Carrera Panamericana road race in Mexico. Co-driven by Claire Williams, the newly-crowned British rally champion completed the 3,500km route in a 1963 Jaguar Mk2, run by the Apparently Racing Team. The event started from […]

By Matthew Burgess The Cardiff Devils bounced back from Friday night’s home loss to Belfast Giants as Brodie Reid’s overtime winner at Fife Flyers secured back-to-back wins from their Scottish double-header. The Devils travelled north immediately after their 4-2 defeat to Belfast and return home with an improved 7-2-0 record in the Elite League – […]

Beth Munro has spoken of her joy after becoming a para-taekwondo World Grand Prix gold medal winner in Manchester. The Disability Sport Wales athlete secured a full house of Paralympic World Grand Prix medals with victory on day one of the event. The Liverpool star was among three home fighters who achieved podium finishes at the Regional Arena.

By Matthew Burgess Head coach Brodie Dupont has called on Cole Sanford to fire the Cardiff Devils past Elite League champions Belfast Giants tonight at Ice Arena Wales (7.30). Sanford netted four goals against Guildford Flames last Sunday to help the Devils return to winning ways as they head into a demanding schedule of three […]

By Gareth James Five Welsh athletes including Paralympic champion Rob Davies, Commonwealth champion Joshua Stacey, Tokyo medallists Paul Karabardak, Tom Matthews and Grace Williams will compete in the 2022 World Para Table Tennis Championships taking place in Granada, Spain from November 6-12. The World Para Table Tennis Championships take place every four years and will […]

Matthew Hirst has won the 2022 Motorsport UK Pirelli Ravenol Welsh Rally Championship title with a perfect 150 points score after winning the penultimate round of the series, the Wyedean Stages Rally. It’s the second time that Hirst and co-driver Declan Dear have been Welsh champions, having won the title in 2019. Driving his Pirelli-shod Delta Salvage Ford Fiesta R5+, Hirst scored maximum points on the opening four rounds of the series – the WKD Trained Dogs Rally North Wales in March, April’s Rallynuts Stages Rally, the Plains Rally in mid-May and the Nicky Grist Stages at the start of July – leaving him only needing one more good result to secure the title.

By Matthew Burgess As has been the theme for much of the season thus far, the Cardiff Devils both thrilled and frustrated in equal measure this past weekend. There is no better experience in the world of Devils hockey than when the Sheffield Steelers roll into town on a Saturday night at a packed out […]

The 25th anniversary of the Cardiff Cross Challenge had everything. From world class Kenyans, to eager primary school pupils, and masters athletes determined to earn league points for their clubs, they came in their hundreds to tackle the Llandaff Fields course. Now, a World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold event, the Cardiff Cross Challenge attracts an even more diverse range of athletic talent than ever before.

Colin Ingram has said he wants to help Glamorgan win promotion next season after signing a new two-year deal with the county. The South African batsman – who will be 39 years old when the new contract ends – will be one of three overseas players at the club next season, alongside Australians Marnus Labuschagne and Michael Neser with two of the three players available to be selected for each match. In the games in which he figured this year, Ingram was in excellent form, scoring 596 first-class runs in just five matches, with three centuries.

Cardiff Cross Challenge celebrates its 25th anniversary on Saturday by welcoming a global entry to Llandaff Fields. The event, which see world class athletes compete alongside local club runners, kicks off the prestigious World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold season. More than 2000 competitors aged from under-11 to over 70 will take part in an 11-race programme contested over a twisting and technical course.

By Paul Evans Osian Pryce has rushed to Mexico, where he’ll contest the famous La Carrera Panamericana Road Race. The newly-crowned British rally champion will drive a 1963 Jaguar Mk2 in the Historic B section and be co-driven by Claire Williams. “A very last-minute opportunity came up last week to be a stand in driver […]

By David Williams Billy Root and Timm van der Gugten are two of five players to sign new deals with Glamorgan Cricket. Jamie McIlroy, Callum Taylor and Andy Gorvin have also extended their stays with the Welsh county. Billy Root, the younger brother of England cricketer Joe Root has signed a two year extension, averaging […]

By Owen Morgan Wales has once again proved it’s a major player when it comes to hosting global sporting events. Saundersfoot’s staging of the World Rowing Coastal Championships last weekend has drawn glowing praise from the sport’s president. In an exclusive interview with Dai Sport, World Rowing president Jean-Christophe Rolland paid tribute to the Pembrokeshire […]

By Paul Jones As Wales gear up for the biggest match in their history, it is possible to assess the impact they are making in a number of different ways. They have reached the play-offs for next year’s World Cup for the first time; they beat Bosnia & Herzegovenia in front of another record home […]

This has been the year of women on the water throughout Wales, thanks to the success of the #ShePaddles campaign. It reached its high tide mark back in May, when 75 women – the vast majority of whom had never met each other – took part in a paddlesport festival at the Plas y Brenin National Outdoor Centre, in Snowdonia. “Plas y Brenin had never had 75 people on the water at once before, never mind 75 women,” says Lydia Wilford, development officer at Canoe Wales.

By Paul Evans Steve Wood is the 2022 Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally champion, having secured the title on the final round of the series on the Isle of Man. The Aberystwyth driver continues an incredible record of title success by Welsh drivers who have dominated the UK’s premier sealed-surface rally series for over a […]

By David Williams Natalie Powell may not be able to get another chance for a Welsh medal, but that won’t stop the Welsh shooters who will make a welcome return, after missing out at Birmingham 2022. Golf, BMX and coastal rowing will make their Commonwealth Games debuts when Australia’s southern state of Victoria hosts the […]

Alys Thomas has been forced to retire from competitive swimming. The 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist has called time on a glittering career on the advice of medical professionals due to an ongoing wrist injury. She first sustained the injury before the 2010 Games in Delhi, but her ambition to make a second Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 has gone.

Ryan Day has labelled his British Open snooker title triumph as the best performance of his career. The Welshman took the final four frames to defeat Mark Allen 10-7 after what was an incredibly tense affair to win the 2022 British Open. Coming into this showpiece encounter, Allen was the pre-match favourite, having easily turned over Noppon Saengkham in the semi-finals.

It was a double win for Kenya at the Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon as Geoffrey Koech and Beatrice Cheserek stormed to victories in the men’s and women’s races in the Welsh capital. The African duo headed a field that included more than 20,000 entrants on the same day as the London Marathon took place. Hopes were high that the 29-year-old Koech might threaten the course record of 59 mis, 30 sec set by fellow Kenyan Leonard Langat in 2019, but in the end he had to content himself with his fourth fastest half-marathon time of 60:01as he just failed to break the magical hour mark.