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,
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,
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
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
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
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