By Owen Morgan Jake Heyward overcame feeling unwell to claim a place in the 1500m final as four Welsh athletes featured on the first day of the European Athletics Championships in Munich. Less than a fortnight after finishing fifth at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Heyward battled through to Thursday’s final as one of the […]

Welsh Fencing is celebrating a highly successful Senior Commonwealth Championships in which Wales won four medals, including gold for Gemma Collis. The London event – which saw teams from all over the Commonwealth compete in a sport that used to be part of the Games itself – yielded a gold, two silvers and a bronze for Wales. Leading the way was para fencer Collis, who took gold in the wheelchair women’s foil, category A competition.

Non Stanford has admitted she surprised herself when she brought the curtain down on her brilliant international triathlon career by becoming European champion. Wales’ biggest name in the sport went out in a blaze of glory at the weekend, by finishing first at Munich’s multi-sports European Championships. A full nine years since she became world champion back in 2013, the 33-year-old from Swansea rolled back the years in her final major competition – just a fortnight after she helped Wales win silver at the Commonwealth Games in the mixed triathlon relay.

By Harry Corish Benjamin Pritchard has admitted he left no stone unturned at the European Championships in Munich, after the Swansea para rower won bronze in the PR1 Men’s Single Sculls (PR1 M1x) event. Pritchard, 30, who had agonisingly missed out on a medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games last summer, safely navigated his way […]

Medi Harris’s breakthrough summer now has a golden glow after Great Britain were crowned champions in the women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the European Aquatics Championships. The Welsh swimmer had already taken silver in the 4 x 200m freestyle team in Rome to add to her Commonwealth Games bronze medal for Wales in the women’s 100m backstroke in Birmingham. Now, she has won three medals in two weeks and has the prospect of individual glory after making it through to the semi-finals of the 100m backstroke, having already finished fifth in the 50m backstroke final.

England international and BBC broadcaster Alex Hartley is full of optimism ahead of Welsh Fire’s opening match against Birmingham Phoenix at Sophia Gardens on Saturday. The left-arm spinner is making her second appearance in The Hundred tournament, but this season she has swapped her Manchester Originals jersey for Welsh Fire. She insists she has hit the ground running with her new squad, beginning with some team bonding.

Medi Harris believes she is growing into her status as a medal-winning international swimmer after backing up her Commonwealth Games bronze medal with a silver at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. The rising Welsh star combined with Freya Colbert, Lucy Hope, and Freya Anderson to get Britain on the medal table on the opening night in Italy with second place in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay final In their second swim together as a quartet, Colbert, Hope, Harris and Anderson kept themselves in contention for the European title from lane one throughout a thrilling race, before ultimately touching for silver behind the Netherlands. The silver medal follows Harris’s bronze in Birmingham last week in the final of the women’s 100m backstroke.

Sport, and life in general, is all about standout moments. For many, the singular moment of the Commonwealth Games 2022 involved Welsh athlete Olivia Breen If we are being picky, then three different moments from Breen encapsulated everything that is good about sport.

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 winning. The 25-year-old from Welshpool competed for Team Wales at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in shot put, where her recent rapid progress in the sport enabled her to finish eighth.

Elfyn Evans had admitted to more feelings of frustration after reflecting on finishing fourth at Rally Finland. Evans had been fighting for victory until he clipped a rock on Saturday’s penultimate stage – the impact with an inside wheel breaking a damper on his Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid. The 50 seconds that he and co-driver Scott Martin lost limping through the day’s final stage (SS18, Vekkula 2) crushed any hopes that they had of repeating last year’s Rally Finland win.

The final medal has been awarded, the last anthem played, and some of the temporary venues are already being dismantled. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is over and it’s on to Victoria, Australia in four year’s time. Owen Morgan reflects on what he has seen. Birmingham, you were absolutely bostin’! From the weather to the welcome . . . with a huge dollop of world class sport in between.

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Charlotte CAREY (WAL) and Anna HURSEY (WAL) after they beat WONG Xin Ru (SGP) and ZHOU Jingyi (SGP) in the women’s doubles bronze medal match at The NEC on Monday. Charlotte CAREY (WAL) – bronze

By Harry Corish Wales’ greatest male track and field para athlete, Aled Sion Davies, has labelled the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a fantastic success for integrating para and able bodied sport together as the Games draws to a close tonight with the closing ceremony. Davies, who won yet another gold in the t41-41/T61-64 discus event, […]

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Ioan CROFT (WAL) after beating Stephen ZIMBA (ZAM) in the men’s welterweight gold medal bout on points at The NEC on Sunday. Ioan CROFT (WAL) – gold

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from gold medallist Rosie ECCLES (WAL) after she beat Kaye Frances SCOTT (AUS) in the women’s light middleweight final at The NEC on Sunday. Rosie ECCLES (WAL) – gold On winning gold: “I’ve had a few bad decisions go against me in the past, so I didn’t want to leave this one […]

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Joshua STACEY (WAL) after he won gold by beating Lin MA (AUS) 3-2 in the men’s singles classes 8-10 at The NEC on Sunday. Joshua STACEY (WAL) – gold On winning the gold medal: “I managed to turn it around, and I’m glad. Me and Josh [MORGAN (WAL) – coach] had […]

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Gemma FRIZELLE (WAL) after winning gold in the hoop final at Arena Birmingham on Saturday. Gemma FRIZELLE (WAL) – gold On her mum getting emotional as she was interviewed in the crowd after her gold medal performance: “I’m not surprised as she is a very emotional person. She has been through this journey with me so she knows the struggles I have had to go through.”

By Harry Corish Joel Makin made history, becoming the first Welsh person to reach the squash final at the Commonwealth Games.  Makin was defeated 3-2 against world number two Paul Coll from New Zealand. Makin went 4-0 up in the first set of the match. The 27-year-old from Abadere was clearly in the ascendancy early […]

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Geraint THOMAS (WAL) after taking bronze in the men’s individual time trial at West Park on Thursday. Geraint THOMAS (WAL) – bronze

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Aled DAVIES (WAL) after winning gold in the men’s discus F42-44/61-64 at the Alexander Stadium on Wednesday. Aled DAVIES (WAL) – gold On finally winning gold after winning silver at Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games: “This a special one. I didn’t think I’d get another chance to represent Wales after Glasgow. There […]