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[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 ...
Lynn Davies, indoor and outdoor Welsh record holder in the long jump with leaps of 8.23 outdoors and 7.97 indoors respectively. Lynn remains as the only athlete to win Olympic gold in track and field since his win in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
She is a three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist representing Wales, winning the 800 metres in Brisbane 1982 and both the 800 metres and 1500 metres in Edinburgh 1986. She represented Great Britain at the 1988 Olympic Games and the 1992 Olympic Games. [1] Wade is the current Welsh record holder for the 800 metres and the Mile.
Athletes from Northern Ireland can choose to compete for either Britain or the Republic of Ireland. [a] British athletes have won a combined total of 1,015 medals at the Olympic Games; 981 of those medals were won at the Summer Olympics, where Team GB is the only team to have won at least one gold medal at every games.
Iwan Thomas being interviewed after lighting the Olympic cauldron in Cambridge during the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay. His father was born to Welsh-born parents in Middlesex, whilst his mother's Welsh language speaking family were centred around the village of Llandderfel, Gwynedd. Iwan Thomas was born in Farnborough and now lives in ...
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.
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]
Heyward went into the British Athletics Championship and Olympic trials in Manchester with a 3:33.99 personal best for the 1,500 metres race, which was below the minimum Olympic standard. He had also broken Neil Horsfield 's 31 year old Welsh record set in Brussels in 1990. [ 1 ]