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Image: Opening Ceremony - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 0 (Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images) Team Greece begins the athlete's parad. (Jared C. Tilton / Getty Images)
[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 ...
Here are some of the best images from Day 12 of the Olympic Games on Wednesday from the track to the court to the velodrome and beyond. Looking good and performing well on the track
Here are some of the best photos from the final day of the Paris Olympics. Sifan Hassan wins 6th Olympic medal First up was the women's marathon, which crowned Netherlands' Sifan Hassan as Olympic ...
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE (born 5 January 1974) is a Welsh sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 metres, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is a former European , Commonwealth Games and World 4 × 400 metres relay champion.
Wales has produced many notable Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the Great Britain team. [citation needed] In 1907, the IOC ruled "country" is a "territory" having "separate representation on the international olympic committee", therefore outruled a separate Welsh delegation. [39]
A general view as athletes compete during the women's 100-meter final on Day 8 of the Olympic Games at Stade de France on Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Colin Ray Jackson, CBE (born 18 February 1967) is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles.During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, [2] became world champion twice, world indoor champion once, was undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was twice Commonwealth champion.