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She won 25 Welsh titles in total, with her 10 successive discus titles coming between 1979 and 1988. [ 1 ] She was a member of the Cardiff Athletic Club, where she still holds the club discus record, as well as both the indoor and outdoor shot put records. [ 2 ]
Jade Louise Jones OBE (born 21 March 1993) is a Welsh taekwondo athlete. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category, and the 2019 World champion, 2016, 2018 and 2021 European champion and both 2015 European Games and 2023 European Games champion at the same weight, the only double gold medalist at her weight in the history of those Games.
Welsh female athletes (16 C, 1 P) B. Welsh female badminton players (7 P) Welsh female bodybuilders (1 P) Welsh female bowls players (43 P) Welsh women boxers (2 P) C.
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty. Prince William, Prince of Wales visits the home of the Scarlets to celebrate the contribution of Welsh female rugby players in support of the Welsh Rugby Union's ...
Welsh female middle-distance runners (6 P) P. Welsh female pole vaulters (1 P) R. ... Pages in category "Welsh female athletes" This category contains only the ...
It includes athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wales portal; ... Welsh female athletes (16 C, 1 P)
[12] [16] Michelle Probert was the first woman from Wales to win an Olympic medal, running in the 4 × 400 m relay, while no female athlete from Wales has won an individual Olympic medal. [16] Some of the more notable Welsh athletes include Lynn Davies, gold medalist in the long jump in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Nicknamed 'Lynn the Leap ...
She was the first Welsh women to compete at the Olympic Games. [1] At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch , she won a bronze medal competing for Wales. Her jump was equal to silver medalist Brenda Eisler , but Eisler had a better second jump.