By Owen Morgan Current World Champions Aled Davies, Hollie Arnold and Olivia Breen will lead a seven-strong Welsh contingent heading to the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. Wales’ golden trio will be joined – on November 7 to 15 – by WPA European Champions Sabrina Fortune and Harri Jenkins, along with Disability Sport Wales […]

Welsh athletes will be out in force at the Manchester International athletics meeting on Wednesday night. As well as a Wales national team, there will be a strong contingent of Welsh athletes in the Great Britain Juniors team, League Select and two All Star Select teams, who will compete against England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Welsh throwing will be particularly well represented by a number of athletes who have enjoyed a season of titles, records and representative honours.

Cardiff Athletics’ women’s team made their return to the top flight of the UK Women’s League at Leigh with a highly creditable fourth place in the season’s opening fixture.

Commonwealth Games long jumper Rebecca Chapman retained her Welsh title with a new championship record on Saturday. The Cardiff AAC athlete produced one of the individual performances of the day to break Ruth Howell’s 40-year-old Welsh Athletics Championships record by one centimetre. Chapman leapt out to 6.34m to clinch gold at Cardiff’s International Sports Campus. Sarah Abrams was second with 6.08m, while Grace Morgan, of Cardiff Archers was third with 5.41m.

Nine Welsh athletes have been named in the Great Britain team for the World Para Athletics European Championships in Germany next month. The team heading to Berlin includes a trio of Welsh world champions in the shape of Olivia Breen, Hollie Arnold and Aled Davies. Breen won gold in the T38 long jump at the IPC World Championships in London and finished on top of the podium again for Wales at this year’s Commonwealth Games.

Dewi Griffiths has been included among the Olympic Podium Potential athletes who will receive funding from British Athletics for 2017/18. It is another major step forward for the 26-year-old Swansea Harrier, who marked his marathon debut with a brilliant fifth place finish in Frankfurt last month in 2:09.49 is among 112 athletes who have been offered membership to UK Sport’s National Lottery funded World Class Programme. The initiative is aimed at supporting the delivery of success at the world’s most significant sporting events. Specifically, during the Tokyo cycle, the aim is to win medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Nine Welsh athletes – which makes up 20 per cent of the squad – have been selected as part of Team GB for the World Para Athletics Championships which starts in London on July 14 and runs through to July 23. Paralympic champions Aled Sion Davies and Hollie Arnold are there, but Rob Cole profiles Laura Sugar, who has given up her career and her first sport in order to chase medals on the track. The first time Laura Sugar went to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London she enjoyed a eureka moment that changed her life. She went as a spectator in 2012, but five years on she will return as part of the British team at the IPC World Championships. On her first visit she thought to herself, ‘I can do that’, now she intends to prove she can by winning a medal.

Nine Welsh athletes have been named in the GB squad for the World Para-Athletics Championship in London. The nine are part of a 49-strong squad for the championships which take place from July 14-23.

Robert Davies remains on track to become the first Welsh gold medal winner at the Rio Paralympics after Sabrina Fortune took bronze on Saturday. Davies, from Abergavenny, is through to Tuesday’s final of the men’s singles table tennis class 1 category after beating Endre Major from Hungary in Sunday’s semi-final.