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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

Halford hits the heights again with fifth British title

Rob Cole

Laura Halford is fast becoming as big a ‘serial champion’ as her illustrious predecessor Frankie Jones in the world of British Rhythmic Gymnastics. The 22-year-old made continued the Welsh domination of the British overall title in Telford on 22-24 June, 2018, as she won her fifth crown in the past six years to extend Welsh

The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame – here to honour our sporting heroes

Rob Cole

Welcome to the new-look Welsh Sports Hall of Fame website. We hope you will find it informative, entertaining and supportive of all-things to do with Welsh sport. We’ve had so much to applaud this century and this year we’ve seen Team Wales bring back a record medal haul from the Commonwealth Games on the Gold