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22/10/2026

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‘Babs’ is back with a crowd-pleasing roar and a celebratory re-run over Pendine Sands

Speed star Parry Thomas joins the ‘Roll of Honour’ The engine roared, the fans gasped and the sun shone on…

Two more heroes of 1976 grand slam Wales side join ‘roll of honour

Two heroes of the 1976 Wales Grand Slam winning team were surprised to find themselves added to the Welsh Sports…

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame Celebrates ‘Roll of Honour’ 35th Anniversary

The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame celebrated the 35th anniversary of its ‘Roll of Honour; at The Parkgate Hotel this week…

Billy Boston becomes Wales’ latest sporting knight

19.07.23 – Cardiff Bay Rugby Codebreakers Statue Unveiling – Rugby league legend Billy Boston during the unveiling of a statue…

‘Roll of Honour’ ready to hit 200 mark after 35 years

The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame ‘Roll of Honour’ has grown to 195 inductees from 31 different sports after the…

‘Famous Five’ honoured on another special ‘Roll of Honour’ night

Iwan Thomas was one of five famous Welsh sportsmen and women to be inducted onto the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame’s exclusive ‘Roll of Honour’…

On this month

First Welsh woman to win Olympic gold is born

10/08/1889

Irene Steer, who swam the anchor leg in Britain’s gold medal winning 4 × 100 metre relay team in Stockholm in 1912, setting a world record, was born on 10 August, 1889. She failed to reach the final of the individual 100 metres after a collision in the heats robbed her of individual honours. Irene

Raddy wins in the Thames

22/08/1925

The great Paulo Radmilovic added to huge array of titles by winning the English Amateur Swimming Association’s five mile race in the Thames on Saturday, 22 August, 1925. He took just over 65 minutes to complete the five miles and 60 yards course from Kew Railway Bridge to Putney Bridge. Another Welsh swimmer, I McDonald

Golden summer at Lord’s for Merthyr’s Meyrick

02/08/1926

William Meyrick can lay claim to being the first Welsh cricketer to score a century at the hallowed cricket ground of Lord’s. The then 18-year-old hammered the Harrow School bowling in Winchester College’s second innings in their annual clash on 2 August, 1826, to amass 146 not out in a total of 380. Winchester won

Jumbo strikes gold twice on same day at LA Games

13/08/1932

Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards struck Olympic gold twice in the space of a few hours on Saturday, 13 August, 1932. The Oxford University oarsman joined forces with Clive Lewis in the Coxless Paris at Long Beach Marine Stadium, Long Beach, California before winning a second medal with the Coxless Fours. Edwards joined the Roll of Honour

Richards races to marathon silver in London

07/08/1948

Tom Richards struck silver at the London Olympic Games in the Marathon on 7 August, 1948. The Pontnewynydd-born runner finished 16 seconds behind Argentinean Delfo Cabrera, coming into the Wembley Stadium arena just after him. Richards took the tape in 2 hrs, 35 mins, 07.6 sec.

Glamorgan crowned county champions

24/08/1948

On Tuesday, 24 August, 1948, at Dean Park, Bournemouth, Glamorgan won the County Championship title for the first time by beating Hampshire. Roll of Honour inductee Johnny Clay played a key role in the victory over by an innings and 115 runs as he took nine wickets in the match. Clay had played in Glamorgan’s

Wonderkid Lewis goes through the card

19/08/1950

Lewis Jones became the first British & Irish Lions player to fly when he joined the 1950 tour part in New Zealand in 1950 as a replacement. And the teenage full back also became the first Lion to go through the scoring card in an international when he scored a try, drop goal and kicked

All-Welsh heavyweight clash at Maindy Stadium

27/08/1956

The first British Heavyweight championship bout staged in Cardiff on August 27, 1956, featured two Welshmen – Joe Erskine and Johnny Williams. The fight took place at Maindy Stadium as the two men fought for the title vacated by Don Cockell. Cardiff-born Erskine won the title on points after 15 rounds.On the undercard, heavyweight Brian

Sobers hits six sixes in Swansea

31/08/1968

The great Garry Sobers completed the feat of hitting six sixes in one over at St Helen’s, Swansea, on 31 August, 1968. The West Indian batsman was playing for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan and hammered Malcolm Nash for a maximum 36 runs off one over. He was caught on the boundary off the fifth ball by

Lions win in New Zealand

14/08/1971

JPR Williams dropped a magnificent goal from near the half-way line at Auckland’s Eden Park to earn the British Lions a 14-14 draw in the fourth and final Test against the All Blacks on Saturday, 14 August. It meant John Dawes’ side won the series 2-1. It was the first, and until 2018 the only,

World record and title for Colin Jackson

20/08/1993

Colin Jackson won the World Athletics 110H title in Stuttgart on 20 August, 1993, with a world record time of 12.91 sec. He went on to win the title again in 1999. His world record lasted almost 13 years until China’s clocked 12.88 sec in Lausanne in July, 2006.

Jacko strikes gold yet again!

25/08/1999

Colin Jackson added a second IAAF World 100H gold medal to his collection on 25 August, 1999. Having stuck bronze in Rome in 1987, gold in Stuttgart in 1993 and silver in Athens in 1997, he scooped his second title with a season’s best time of 13.04 sec to beat Cuba’s Anier Garcia (13.07) and