Rob Davies described his securing of another Paralympic final as “awesome” as he made his way into the gold medal showdown of the men’s class 1 singles final of the Para Table Tennis in Paris. The Welsh star – Paralympic champion in 2016 – produced another great performance to reach the final for Great Britain.

David Smith has urged more investment into British boccia after he suffered defeat in the mixed team quarter-finals at Paris 2024. Having already failed to defend his title in the singles – and losing out on a medal to long-time rival Muhamad Syafa the Swansea-based athlete was unable to get revenge as he, Kayleigh Haggo and Claire Taggart lost to Indonesia in a tie-break.

Stevie Williams has vowed to fight to hold onto the leader’s jersey after powering to his first ever victory in the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain. The 28-year-old rider from Aberystwyth outsprinted Oscar Onley, and former race winner Julian Alaphilippe for the stage two win in Redcar on Wednesday.

Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/4 – which first came to Pembrey Circuit in 1988 and dominated that year’s Formula 1 World Championship – will be the centrepiece of a Senna tribute at the Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival. The festival takes place on Sunday 22 September, exactly 31 years to the day since the Brazilian F1 driver set the fastest lap around the home of Welsh motorsport.

Pregnant Welsh archer Jodie Grinham dedicated her gold medal to her father after topping the podium at the Paralympic Games in Paris. Grinham – from Haverfordwest – won the mixed team compound competition for Great Britain alongside Nathan Macqueen, beating Iran, 155-151, in the final.

David Smith has admitted he needs to up his game if he is to remain among the elite of world boccia. The Swansea athlete relinquished his Paralympic individual crown over the weekend as he lost two matches in quick succession to be left without a medal.

Welsh cyclist James Ball struck gold at the Paralympics after finally getting the better of fellow Briton Neil Fachie in the Men’s B 1000m Time Trial in Paris. The visually impaired star from Newport had to settle for silver in the kilo at the Tokyo 2020 games, in partnership with sighted pilot Lewis Stewart, narrowly missing out on the gold to Fachie and Matt Rotherham.

Welsh teenanger Rhys Darbey has struck gold at his first Paralympics at the age of just 16. The teenager from Flintshire – who took silver at the Para Swimming World Championships last year – went one better as part of the Mixed S14 4x100m Freestyle Relay team.

Ben Pritchard revelled in being top dog in a golden era of Paralympic single sculling. Pritchard, who finished fifth in Tokyo, put in a stunning breakthrough performance to win PR1 gold in Paris by a margin of 11 seconds.

Welsh athletes celebrated an incredible four gold medals on Sunday – one third of an historic 12 golds won by Great Britain at the Paralympic Games in Paris. Shot put thrower Sabrina Fortune, swimmer Rhys Darbey, rower Ben Pritchard and cyclist James Ball all topped the podium as ParalympicsGB celebrated a dozen golds across all sports on a super Sunday – the most in a single day this century.

Colin Ingram has revealed that simplicity has been the secret of his resurgent form after he struck a career-best 206 not out for Glamorgan. Ingram became the first batter this summer to reach 1,000 first class runs as he plundered his fifth century of the season, and his highest score, to put Glamorgan into a commanding position at the end of the second day against Leicestershire as they led by 180 runs.

If you go by the numbers, then Neil Robinson’s influence on para table tennis in Wales is easy to recognise. Of the 11 Great Britain squad members currently in Paris for the Paralympic Games, four of them are Welsh.

Beth Munro is among the favourites to win gold when the taekwondo competition gets underway at the Paris Paralympics on 29 August. The Welsh fighter surprised everyone, including herself, when she claimed silver at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, her second international competition.

Creative director Thomas Jolly has some lofty goals for Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, when the heart of Paris will once again become the stage for a stunning artistic display. The outdoor ceremony at the Champs-Elysees and Place de La Concorde — a site where several members of the royal family were beheaded during the French Revolution — is aiming to challenge and reshape society’s perceptions of disabilities.

Welsh Under 14’s Champion Rebecca Del Sol-Gonzalez was delighted to beat the boys to the title – and inspired by the prospect of the AIG Women’s Open coming to Wales next year. While the best women players on the planet are starring at St Andrew’s in this year’s AIG Women’s Open, Del Sol-Gonzalez was competing in North Wales at Northop and edging out Pennard clubmate Thomas Maclean, as well as Wernddu’s Alicia Kelly, by a single shot.

Javelin star Hollie Arnold feels primed to make “magical things” happen in Paris after rediscovering happiness following the lingering pain of losing her Paralympic title. The 30-year-old Team Wales athlete did little to hide her disappointment when she downgraded the F46 gold she won at Rio 2016 to bronze on a rain-soaked day at the rescheduled Tokyo Games in 2021.

The Paralympics begin in Paris on Wednesday, putting on display the talents of remarkable athletes in a city still riding the wave of the highly successful Olympics. A new generation of Paralympians will be joined by seasoned veterans competing in many of the same sensational venues in the centre of the French capital that hosted Olympic sports.

Is there a higher form of trust than riding a Paralympic tandem? A visually impaired ‘stoker’ provides power and is guided around the velodrome track at breathtaking high speed by a sighted pilot.

Joe Cordina has been given an immediate chance to get his hands back on a world title belt with a challenge for the WBC lightweight crown in Saudi Arabia. Cordina – who lost his super-featherweight world title to Anthony Cacace in May – will move up a weight to challenge highly-rated American Shakur Stevenson on October 12 in Riyadh.

Swansea’s boccia champion David Smith is “raring to go” for Paris but feels Adam Peaty’s near miss at the Olympics proves how difficult it is to win gold at three successive Games. The 35-year-old travels to the Paralympics as Britain’s most successful player of the boules-like sport and looking to defend the individual BC1 title he claimed in Rio and retained in Tokyo.