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The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame added five new names to its Roll of Honour at the 33rd annual dinner at the Parkgate Hotel, Cardiff last night (Thursday, 24 October). The ‘Famous Five’ took the number of inductees over the past 34 years to 186 and there were also three other special awards. Both Hall of […]

As the curtain came down on the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games, it brought an end to a historic summer for Welsh swimmers. For the first time, Welsh athletes earned gold medals at both Games, with Kieran Bird & Matt Richards clinching 4x200m Freestyle Relay gold, and Rhys Darbey playing a pivotal role in […]

Rhys Darbey mounted a stunning comeback to add the SM14 200m Individual Medley silver medal to his relay gold at the 2024 Paralympic Games. The 17-year-old stormed home to a lifetime best of 2:08.61 at La Defense Arena to take the Welsh medal tally in Paris to five. Trailing the leading pack after the opening […]

Hector Pardoe is out for redemption in Paris after his Olympic debut was cruelly cut short. The Wrexham-born open water specialist has become a staple in the British team at every major meet since his time at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Pardoe, who covers 85km in the pool every week, marked himself out as one […]

Welsh swimmers starred in La Defense Arena pool as Team GB took five medals and came close to many more at the 2024 Olympic Games. The Paris edition of the Games will go down as the most successful in modern history for Welsh pool swimmers, with two relay golds and an individual silver returning across […]

Welshmen Matthew Richards and Kieran Bird were crowned Olympic champions after Team GB made history by defending their Men’s 4x200m Freestyle title. Richards, who won a sensational individual silver on Monday, swum a rapid third leg in the final after Bird helped Great Britain secure the fastest qualifying spot for the final after La Défense […]

Matthew Richards became the first Welsh person to win a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after securing a stunning 200m Freestyle silver. The 21-year-old, who won relay gold in Tokyo four years ago, was in the hunt for individual glory at La Defense Arena, but faced a daunting challenge after qualifying seventh fastest […]

Medi Harris has faced huge challenges in 2024, but she will realise her Olympic dream in Paris. The Porthmadog swimmer will make her Olympic Games debut in Paris off the back of winning her maiden World Championship medals in February and a consistent two years of international performances since her busy debut summer of 2022. […]

Matthew Richards became Wales’ first Olympic swimming gold medallist in more than a century alongside Calum Jarvis in 2021, and now his sights are set on individual honours. The 21-year-old Richards reached the pinnacle of his sport at the age of 18, winning Olympic gold as part of the men’s 4x200m relay team in Tokyo, […]

Daniel Jervis has come back from the brink of walking away from the sport to take his place at his second Olympic Games. The distance specialist revealed he came close to quitting the sport before the Speedo Aquatics GB Championships and Olympic & Paralympic Trials earlier in the year, but he delivered when it mattered […]