Charlotte Carey triumphed over another higher-ranked player to reach the next stage of the European Singles Olympic Qualification event in Portugal. The 24-year-old – the lowest seed in the three-woman group – ensured she topped Group B after beating Slovakia’s Tatiana Kukulkova.

Kris Jones swapped a year of running around Scottish industrial estates for the Cardiff International Sports Campus track as he won Welsh Athletics’ Invitational 5,000m on Wednesday night. The Dundee-based Swansea Harrier was in winning form as he returned to Wales for the event organised as part of the sport’s journey back to competition. Jones won the 5,000m in an impressive 13.49.33 considering the cool, blustery conditions and small field at the elite-only event, restricted to limited numbers due to Covid-19.

Kyra Jones has admitted she has a big test ahead of her after choosing to come out of retirement to resume her SuperLeague netball career. The former Wales international – who will be 36 in September – has joined Worcester-based Severn Stars who have lost another Wales international, Bethan Dyke, to a serious knee injury. Jones – who has proved a huge loss to the Celtic Dragons since opting to retire two years ago – has agreed a short-term arrangement to join the large Welsh contingent at Stars.

Elfyn Evans is ready to vent into the unknown when he resumes his World Rally Championships bid in Croatia this week. The Dolgellau-born racer gets his challenge underway with the opening stage on Friday on an event that is new to the WRC calendar.

Charlotte Carey staged a superb comeback to win her opening match in the European Singles Olympic qualifying tournament in Portugal. The Welsh table tennis star came from two games down to beat Italy’s Debora Vivarelli, who at 71 in the world is ranked 80 places higher than Carey.

Cardiff Met is to become home to a franchise in wheelchair basketball’s new Women’s Premier League. The British Wheelchair Basketball Women’s Premier League will be the first of its kind for women’s wheelchair basketball in the world and the very first professional para-sport league in the UK. Franchises will be based at four UK universities renowned for their prowess in various sports – Cardiff Metropolitan University, Loughborough University, University of East London and University of Worcester.

Daniel Jervis is preparing to live out his boyhood dream of becoming an Olympian after delivering on his promise to “smash it” on super Sunday. Wales’ Commonwealth Games silver medalist is set to be in Tokyo for the Games this summer after winning the men’s 1500m freestyle final in the final session of the British Swimming selection trials in London. After winning the 800m but narrowly missing out on the selection time earlier in the week, Jervis delivered the dominant performance he had promised in the longer event.

Liam Williams’ bid to become Wales’ 13th boxing world champion ultimately ended in courageous defeat in Florida on Saturday night. The Clydach Vale man bravely picked himself up off the canvas after a disastrous opening two rounds to take reigning WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade all the way. Few would have predicted the fight going the distance after Andrade completely dominated the first six minutes, putting Williams down in the second round with a right-left combination.

Alys Thomas has admitted she has a busy weekend of thanking people who helped her book a likely spot to Tokyo and the Olympics this summer. Wales’ Commonwealth Games champion confessed she had been ignoring messages on her phone after coming from behind to storm to victory at the British Olympic trials in London. Her victory – achieved inside the Games consideration time – in the women’s 200m butterfly means Thomas is set to be included in the Great Britain squad for her first Olympic Games at the age of 30.

Georgia Davies and Daniel Jervis must wait to see if their Olympic dream will be realised after neither was able to book their place at the British selection trials in London. Two-time Olympian Davies finished inside the Olympic consideration time in the final of the women’s 100m backstroke on Thursday night, but had to settle for third place in a tough final. Wales’ Commonwealth silver medalist Jervis won the men’s 800m freestyle, but was agonizingly outside of the time needed.

Welsh para-rower Ben Pritchard has earned more success by being named Disability Sport Wales’ athlete of the year. The City of Swansea Rowing Club member was given the award in recognition of his huge progress over the past 12 months that has put him on course for a Great Britain place at the Paralympics in Tokyo in August. Pritchard picked up the prize in the same week he secured a silver medal at the European Championships despite having to recover from Covid and back injuries earlier this year.

Two of the biggest names in British boxing are backing Liam Williams to join the list of Welsh world champions on Saturday. Joe Calzaghe – who held a world title longer than any other Welsh fighter – says Williams has got what it takes to follow in his footsteps and rule the boxing world. Meanwhile, legendary fight promoter and manager Frank Warren also believes the Welshman can claim the WBO middleweight crown against undefeated champion Demetrius Andrade at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Harriet Jones has become the first Welsh swimmer to pencil her name down for Olympic selection by winning at the British Swimming selection trials in London. The City of Cardiff swimmer won the women’s 100m butterfly final in a new personal best time of 57.92 – inside the set Tokyo requirement time. It doesn’t yet guarantee Jones a seat on the plane – which comes down the choice of selectors – bit it puts her in pole position to be on the Great Britain team for Japan.

The 100-day countdown to the delayed Olympic Games has begun with a host of Welsh athletes dreaming of achieving in 2021 what they were denied in 2020. Tokyo will be an Olympics unlike any that have gone before, but Brian Davies – Sport Wales’ director of elite performance – insists it will still make memories for athletes and TV fans alike, as Graham Thomas reports. Welsh Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls have been primed to expect a very different experience in Tokyo in 2021 – but still a special one. As the likes of Jade Jones, Aled Davies, Dewi Griffiths, Melissa Courtney, Elinor Barker, Owain Doull, Natalie Powell, Lauren Price, Hannah Mills and other Great Britain prospects reflect on a hugely disrupted 2020, they will be optimistic that the summer of 2021 brings brighter days.

Until last week, Jordan Hart used to be Wales’ leading badminton player and Britain’s No.2. Now, though, she belongs to Poland after quitting Welsh sport over what she claimed was a lack of support. Speaking exclusively to Dai Sport, she tells Fraser Watson why she felt the need to leave Wales. Changing location is one thing, changing the country you represent is another. Which is why the decision that Jordan Hart has made – to represent Poland instead of Wales at international badminton tournaments – ranks as the most difficult of her career by far.

Swansea Harrier Joe Brier has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2021 World Athletics Relays in Poland next month. The championships will mean a return to the country where Brier last month won a European Indoor Championships bronze medal in the 4x400m.

Welsh rowing pair Vicky Thornley and Ben Pritchard have returned from the European Rowing Championships with silver medals. The pair both finished runner-up in their respective finals at the European Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy, as they returned to competitive action. Thornley took silver in the women’s single sculls, while Pritchard also finished second in his final of the para single sculls race for PR1 athletes.

Lauren Williams saw her reign as European Taekwondo champion ended after a hard-fought battle in the final in Sofia. The Gwent fighter lost out 13-10 to Croatia’s Mate Jelic 13-10 in the -67kg category.

Jade Jones gave her Olympic bid the perfect boost when she was crowned European Taekwondo champion for the third time in Sofia. The Flint fighter’s hat-trick of titles sets her up perfectly for her bid to become the first person in Taekwondo to win three successive Olympic Games golds this summer.

Damian Cole is aiming to break the outright record of rally wins on Epynt, and win the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship for a seventh time this year, in a new Škoda Fabia R5.