Sport: Rugby, Cricket, Boxing, Athletics
Sport in Wales usually means Rugby, it seems to overshadow some great achievments Welsh sportsmen and women have made in Boxing, Athletics, Cricket and Football. Our list of welsh sport personalities includes well known names like Alf Sherwood , Ryan Giggs , Ian Lougher and many more - including some here time has overlooked...
Michael Prosser
Ely Valley Bowls Club. Wales captain 2003. Welsh Indoor Singles Champion 2001. Welsh Pairs Champion (with John Applegate) 2000. Captain Vale of Glamorgan County for over fifty games.
Simon Hill, sportsman with a Welsh connection!
Simon Hill
Football (Soccer, wing) player for Cardiff and Wales.
Bobby Morgan, sportsman with a Welsh connection!
Bobby Morgan
Commonwealth and European gold medallist diver. Three times Olympian diver.
Dale Green, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Pontypool)
Dale Green
skiing
Haydon Morris, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Barry)
Haydon Morris
His rugby career started in Bangor Normal College and later, Mountain Ash, Cardiff, Welsh Academicals and the Barbarians. His first international was played against France in 1951 and four years later against Ireland in Cardiff, where he scored the second of the four Welsh try's that brought a 21-3 victory. In 1955 he toured South Africa with the British Lions and scored a hat-trick of try's in his debut and six further tries in seven matches. Unfortunately injury curtailed his career.
Ian Walsh, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Pembroke, Pembrokeshire)
Ian Walsh
Football (Soccer) player for Wales .
Roger Freestone, sportsman with a Welsh connection!
Roger Freestone
Football (Soccer goal keeper) player for Swansea City. Played against Brazil in an international.
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