Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken of Welsh sport the world over the past 12 months.
The BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year is the most prestigious annual sport award in Wales. It was first awarded in 1954, and is currently organised by BBC Cymru Wales . Throughout much of its early history, the award was presented at its own televised ceremony.
Welsh sport shooters (2 C) Welsh skateboarders (3 P) Welsh skeleton racers (1 C) Welsh skiers (2 C) Welsh snooker players (1 C, 46 P) Welsh squash players (2 C)
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
In 1960, he was also voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and at the 1972 Games served as the Olympic flag bearer for Great Britain. [2] Broome was born in Cardiff, attended Monmouth School, and still maintains his stables at Mount Ballan Manor, Crick, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire. He held the individual European title in 1961, 1967 and ...
Take a look back at the previous winners of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. 1950s. 1954 Sir Chris Chataway. 1955 Gordon Pirie. 1956 Jim Laker. 1957 Dai Rees. 1958 Ian Black.
Jones has also been honoured by the sporting and journalist communities. In 1954 he was the inaugural winner of the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year and was also chosen as the first rugby union inductee into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, [1] ahead of more well known players such as Gareth Edwards or J. P. R. Williams.
Named the greatest Welsh player of the 1950s by the WRU, Cliff Morgan played 29 Tests for Wales, [9] and four for the British Lions between 1951 and 1958. [10] Morgan played at fly-half and was one of the sport's biggest crowd-pullers during his career. [ 11 ]