By Hannah Blackwell Wales has a new tennis star – at a stretch. Cameron Norrie may have been born in South Africa and grew up in New Zealand from the age of three, but his mother is Welsh and proud enough of the fact to have named Norrie’s sister Bronwen. It’s a tenuous claim to […]
Elfyn Evans has kept his hopes of becoming World Rally champion title alive by finishing second on Rally Spain. Evans took an 18 point lead into the final Rally Monzalast year, but crashed out and handed the title to Sébastien Ogier.
Welsh athletes will take part in a revolutionary new indoor competition in Glasgow next year. Dynamic New Athletics Indoor (DNA) is a new mixed-gender, fast-paced, short, team athletics event, heading to Emirates Arena on 5 February 2022.
Cardiff Devils forward Josh Waller says the team have put their Champions Hockey League campaign behind them and have turned their attention towards the Elite League title. The Devils completed their CHL commitments this week and face two of their prospective title rivals in back-to-back games this weekend, beginning with tonight’s visit of the Belfast […]
By Lucy Rees Wales coach Sarah Hale is keen to see how her team shape up against one of the world’s top netball nations after naming her squad to face South Africa later this month. Hale – who has named a squad of 12 for the international in Northern Ireland on October 24 – believes […]
On the eve of this year’s Cardiff Cross Challenge, Welsh Athletics has announced exciting plans to host the European Cross Country Championships.
Welsh hopes for securing a World Rally Championship crown will either have skidded off the road this weekend or still be firmly on track. Elfyn Evans needs points from the Rally of Spain and for his great rival Sebastien Ogier to be denied, as Paul Evans reports. Elfyn Evans is still capable of pulling off a minor miracle to become World Rally champion, according to Nicky Grist. Evans, from Dollgellau, has it all to do as he heads for the start line in Spain for the Rally de España on 14-17 October.
It seems a while since stadiums have been able to welcome crowds, so allowing spectators back into forests to watch a rally is long overdue – and finally it’s going to happen in Wales as spectators will be allowed to watch the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally on Saturday 30 October.
Like your sport raw, mud-splattered and breathless? Then head to Llandaff Fields in Cardiff on Saturday for the Cardiff Cross Challenge. Owen Morgan looks ahead to the event and a form of running that used to terrify him as well as plenty of others. Cross country. Two words guaranteed to trigger anxiety dreams from our […]
Celtic Dragons will hope the addition of Lefebre Rademan will sharpen their shooting for the forthcoming 2022 Netball Superleague season. The 25-year-old South African international has been announced as a Dragons’ new signing after leaving London Pulse after just one season. Goal attack Rademan worked under new Dragons coach Danielle Titmuss at Pulse and will re-unite with her in Cardiff.
By Carl Field Welsh tumbler Megan Surman has been named in the British team for the 2021 Trampoline, Tumbling and DMT World Championships taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan next month. The 23-year-old, who is originally from Swansea and now trains out of City of Birmingham GC, was the women’s 17-21 World Age Group tumbling champion […]
It’s almost certain that either Osian Pryce or Matt Edwards will be crowned British rally champion this year, and whilst both drivers were equally brilliant on the Mull Rally they each experienced a very different event as the longest and toughest round of the series played out on the Inner Hebridean island.
The Ferret has burrowed his way upwards to seventh in the world after Jonny Clayton’s victory over Gerwyn Price in the all-Welsh battle for the World Grand Prix title. Clayton – who continued his remarkable rise with a 5-1 victory over defending champion and good friend Price in Leicester – has gone up seven places from 14th to seventh in the new PDC Order of Merit. The new champion picked up a cheque for £110,000 after securing a third Professional Darts Corporation title of 2021, his first in a major ranking event.
By Paul Jones Defending champion Gerwyn Price set up an all-Welsh final at the World Grand Prix with a stunning 4-2 comeback victory over Stephen Bunting. World number one Price will meet compatriot Jonny Clayton in Saturday’s final in Leicester, but only after battling past Bunting in dramatic fashion. The 36-year-old reigning world champion trailed by two sets and returned to the oche late, complaining of twinges in his throwing arm.
By Lucy Rees New Glamorgan signing Sam Northeast believes he can help deliver more success to the Welsh county after joining from Hampshire. Northeast, who joins from Hampshire, previously Kent, is one of the most consistent and experienced batsmen in the county circuit. In 2005 he made his Kent second XI debut against Durham and […]
By Tom Prosser Welsh darts stars Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton were both victorious in their World Grand Prix Quarter-finals on Thursday evening and are now just one game away from potentially meeting each other in what would be the first ever all Welsh PDC major final. Price is now the only remaining seeded player in the tournament after beating the out of sorts Dave Chisnall 3-0. But, the world number one who hails from Markham, was far from happy with the boos he received from the crowd in Leicester.
By Tom Prosser Premier League champion Jonny Clayton has joined his Welsh darting colleague Gerwyn Price in the Quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix. The former World Cup winning duo are now on a potential collision course to meet in the final. “I’m not thinking too much about that yet,” explained Clayton.
By Lucy Rees Egyptian Tarek Momen has defeated Welshman Joel Makin to reach his first U.S. Open final. Makin beat defending champion, Egyptian Ali Farag, in the quarter-finals but wasn’t able to defeat Tarek Momen, battling an 11-9, 5-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8 victory. Momen said: “He’s unreal, he never gives up, it’s one of the best […]
By Tom Prosser Welsh darts star Gerwyn Price dug deep to come from behind and defeat Mervyn King 3-1 to secure his place in the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix. Price, the current world number one and world champion, was the deserved winner and showed his ability to up his game during the decisive moments of the match. “When I lost the first set, I was beating myself up,” Price said on Sky Sports.
By Lucy Rees National Counties XI beat hosts Spain on Monday by 93 runs in the first match of their Championship Week in the Dream11 T10 European Championship. National Counties are representing England and Wales at the 15-nation tournament and qualified for the Championship Week having finished top of Group C. Wales’ Sam Pearce, Richard […]