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David Davies

David Davies went from being a European Junior swimming champion to a British senior record holder, double Olympian and, of course, a gold medallist for Wales at the Commonwealth Games. More than that, he managed to succeed, and pick up a bucket full of major medals, in an event in which his main rival was

Fulke Walwyn

Fulke Walwyn first grabbed the headlines when, as an amateur rider, he won the 1936 Grand National on Reynoldstown. With two fences to go it was the 100-1 outsider Davy Jones who looked a certain winner before his reins broke. Walwyn was having problems of his own after losing his whip at Valentine’s on the

Steve Barry

Steve Barry dabbled in athletics as a schoolboy, but never really wanted to follow in the footsteps of his dad, Dai, who had won nine Welsh race walking titles. Race Walking collapsed in Wales as he was growing up and it wasn’t until two clubs former in the late 1970s, Roath Labour and Splott Cons,

Jim Alford

So sure was everyone that Jim Alford was going to win the gold medal in the mile at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney that, just before the start of the final, one of the Australian officials came up to him and whispered in his ear, “You’ve got it.” The Welshman wasn’t so certain,

Ivor Allchurch

The “Golden Boy” of Welsh soccer, he scored a then record 23 goals for Wales in 68 appearances and was a key member of the Welsh side that reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden. He made 694 league appearances and scored 251 goals for Newcastle United, Cardiff City and Swansea

Roll of Honour 2023

Rob Cole

THREE WELSH SPORTING CENTURIONS HONOURED BY WELSH SPORTS HALL OF FAME Three of Wales’ most capped sports stars were among four new inductees onto the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame’s ‘Roll of Honour’ at their annual dinner at Cardiff City Stadium tonight (Thursday 14 September). Olympic hockey medallist Leah Wilkinson, four-time Commonwealth Games netballer Suzy