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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...

Tracey Morris, sportswoman with a connection to Wales (Holyhead, Anglesey)

Tracey Morris A captain for Wales in her teens and at the age of thirty-six the first British woman to complete the Flora London Marathon 2004 with a personal best of 2h:33m:52s. Represented Britain in the 2004 Olympics.

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Iwan Roberts, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Bangor, North Wales)

Iwan Roberts Football (Soccer) player for Wales and Norwich City.

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Tony Roberts, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Holyhead, Anglesey)

Tony Roberts Football (Soccer goal keeper) player for Queens Park Rangers, Dagenham, Redbridge and Wales.

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Peter Rodrigues, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Cardiff)

Peter Rodrigues Football (Soccer captain) player, for Southampton when they won the FA Cup at Wembley, England.

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Phil Edwards, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Cardiff)

Phil Edwards Boxer who twice fought Terry Downs for the middleweight championship.

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Johnny Freeman, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Cardiff)

Johnny Freeman Rugby league international, played for Halifax.

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Les Manfield, sportsman with a connection to Wales (South Wales)

Les Manfield Played for Wales at rugby football immediately before the second world war and then afterwards.

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