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100 Years Ago – A Welsh Grand National Winner

Rob Cole

Jack Anthony is not a name that gets tossed into the conversation too often when you debate who is the greatest Welsh sportsman. ‘Jack who’ is more often the query when his name gets raised, but he was part of a pretty amazing family and on this weird and wonderful day, when the Grand National

WSHoF Roll of Honour trio honoured by the Queen

Rob Cole

Three WSHoF Roll of Honour members have been honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List. Sheila Morrow (1990), Steve Jones (2002) and Jayne Ludlow (2018) were joined by Nigel Walker in receiving recognition for their outstanding services to sport. Their awards were announced at the end of a week that also saw WSHoF

Tasker finally joins Deas as Winter Olympic medalist

Rob Cole

Wales can official boast another Olympic medalist after Bruce Tasker and the rest of Team GB’s four man bobsleigh team from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games were finally upgraded to the bronze medal. It means that Laura Deas reign as Wales’ first Winter Olympic medalist has been short-lived following her bronze medal winning exploits in

Come and join us at the ‘Roll of Honour’ dinner in June

Rob Cole

We are getting to that time of year again, when the new inductees to be added to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame ‘Roll of Honour’ are selected by the trustees. Last year our ‘Roll of Honour’ numbers rose to 140 after five new names were added to the most exclusive list in Welsh sport

Queen of the Bristol Channel – Kathleen Thomas

Rob Cole

If you stand on the end of Penarth Pier you can see England on the other side of the Bristol Channel. It doesn’t seem that far away, but you wouldn’t want to swim across. Or would you? Ninety-one years ago the 21-year-old Kathleen Thomas wasn’t going to let the roughly 11 miles distance, or the

Betty Gray – ‘Miss Welsh Table Tennis’

Rob Cole

They don’t make them like they used to! All the headlines in Welsh table tennis this year may have been about the 11-year-old wonder kid Anna Hursey, but she could only dream of having a career as long and successful as Betty Gray. The 98-year-old President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association died this week