Commonwealth Games: Davies success as Wales medal tally lifts to 17
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Commonwealth Games 2022: 'I put everything into this!' - Aled Davies wins discus gold
2022 Commonwealth Games |
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Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to 8 August |
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Paralympic legend Aled Sion Davies struck a fourth Commonwealth Games gold for Wales to help take the tally to 17.
Fellow discus thrower Harrison Walsh picked up a bronze, while squash player Joel Makin and judoka Natalie Powell claimed silvers.
Wales' 17-strong medal haul includes four golds, four silver and nine bronze.
Boxers Rosie Eccles and Taylor Bevan guaranteed there will be two more medals after reaching the semi-finals.
Four more boxers will aim to ensure podium positions with twins Ioan and Garan Croft, flyweight Jake Dodd and bantamweight Owain Harris-Allen involved in quarter-finals on Thursday.
Commonwealth Games 2022: It was tough to take
Makin was defeated by New Zealand's first seed Paul Coll in the deciding set of the men's singles final.
Powell claimed silver in the women's judo -78kg category after losing to England's top seed Emma Reid.
Jeremiah Azu finished fifth in the men's 100m final which was a best ever Commonwealth performance in this discipline by a Wales sprinter.
Lauren Evans finished in seventh place in the women's heptathlon with 5209 points with the gold medal won by England's Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
Adele Nicholl was eighth in the shot put, while Rhys Jones finished sixth in the men's T37/38 100m.
Welsh 400m runner Joe Brier qualified for Friday's semi-finals after finishing third in his heat with a time of 46.84 secs.
His older sister Hannah bowed out in the semi-final stages of the women's 100m after finishing eighth in her heat.
Powell disappointment
Natalie Powell says she is 'pretty gutted' after losing the -78kg judo gold medal final against England's Emma Reid.
Powell lost to England's top seed Emma Reid. She won the 2014 Games gold in Glasgow and the event was not held in Australia four years later.
She says it will be her last Commonwealth Games but hopes to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
"I came here for the gold and sadly I didn't achieve that today so I'm pretty gutted," said Powell.
"I just think I went out a little bit erratic and didn't control the situation and got caught early.
"I threw everything at her but sadly it wasn't enough today."
In weightlifting, meanwhile, Wales will leave a Commonwealth Games without a medal for the first time since 1958, when they were hosts.
Jordan Sakkas finished seventh in the men's 109kg with a total of 328kg on Wednesday, with the gold won by Cameroon's Junior Periclex Ngadja Nyabeyeu, who had a final total of 361kg.
Wales' hockey men kept their semi-final hopes alive with a 6-1 win over Ghana. They'll be in the last four if they beat group leaders India tomorrow.
Wales' netballers lost 69-51 to South Africa in the penultimate pool game and face Barbados on Thursday.
In the final night in the pool, Medi Harris missed out on a medal in the women's 50m backstroke final after finishing fifth, while para-swimmer Dylan Broom placed seventh in the men's 200m freestyle S14 final.
The men's 4x100m medley relay quartet of Joe Small, Matthew Richards, Kyle Booth and Lewis Fraser finished fourth in a Welsh record.