Wales_at_the_2014_Commonwealth_Games

Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

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Wales competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to the games the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales set itself a target of 27 medals, surpassing the 2010 total of 20 medals won in Delhi. After the withdrawal of World champion competitors Helen Jenkins, Non Stanford and Becky James, Chef de Mission Brian Davies conceded that the initial target was optimistic, but the target was actually attained by 30 July, the sixth day of the competition.[3] Wales finished 13th in the overall medal table (ranked in order of the number of gold medals won), but joint 8th, with Nigeria, in terms of the total medals won.[4]

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Wales finished with 36 medals, making the team the most successful Welsh squad in Commonwealth Games history. The country secured five gold medals, won by Francesca Jones (gymnastics), Geraint Thomas (cycling), Natalie Powell (judo), Jazz Carlin and Georgia Davies (swimming). Francesca Jones was the most successful member of the Welsh squad securing six medals, with five silvers to add to her gold. Other multiple medal athletes includes fellow gymnasts Laura Halford and Georgina Hockenhull, swimmer Jazz Carlin and cyclist Geraint Thomas. Gymnastics was the country's most successful sport winning ten medals, but podium finishes were achieved across ten of the 18 sports contested. Wales medal total also included four from para-sport events.

During the closing ceremony Francesca Jones was awarded the David Dixon Award as the outstanding athlete of the Games, reflecting not only her performance as a competitor but also as a role model to her sport and as an ambassador of fair play.[5]

Administration

The national body created to select the Wales team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games was the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales (CGCW) (Welsh: Cyngor Gemau Gymanwlad Cymru).[6]

The CGCW Board is managed by its Council which is made up of members from all sports that can attend a Commonwealth Games. The chair of the board to see Team Wales through the Games is Helen Phillips, who is also the Chair of Wales Gymnastics.[7] The Company Secretary is Sue Holvey while its directors are Deborah Godbold, Nicola Phillips and Ron Davies. The President of CGCW is Anne Ellis while the CEO is Chris Jenkins, the only full-time employed member of the board.[6]

The chef de mission for Team Wales is Brian Davies, the first time he has held the position after serving on the team in the previous two competitions. Paralympic world record holding athlete Aled Davies was confirmed as team captain at the official team send-off at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff on 23 June 2014.[8]

Build up to the Games

High Standards were set in the run up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games for the Wales team, with a target of 27 medals set by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales.[9] This surpassed the team's total achieved at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The first major set back for the team was the withdrawal in June of world triathlete champion Non Stanford, who was unable to recover in time from a stress fracture to her ankle.[10] Two weeks later it was announced that double cycling world champion Becky James would also be withdrawing from the Games, also due to an injury.[11] A week before the Games began triathlete Helen Jenkins, another medal hopeful, was forced to leave the Welsh team, again through injury.[12] Other team members forced to withdraw through injury close to the opening of the Games included weightlifter Faye Pittman and judoka Kyle Davies.[13]

As well as the athletes who left the squad through injury, several hopefuls' withdrawals were more controversial. On 16 July it was announced that 800m runner Gareth Warburton had been charged with anti-doping rule violations and was unable to be selected, this was followed on the opening day of the Games with the withdrawal of 400m hurdler and team Wales vice captain Rhys Williams again after failing a drug test at a Grand Prix event earlier that month.[14][15]

Further disappointment for Welsh medal hopes came from the boxing team. Olympic silver medalist Fred Evans was unable to compete after long negotiations between the Welsh camp and the Home Office and Games officials resulting in a refusal of accreditation. Earlier in the year Evans had admitted his part in a nightclub assault.[16] A second loss from the boxing team was female fighter Ashley Brace, who was disqualified from taking part in the Games as she was adjudged to have once been a professional kick-boxer and was thus not an amateur fighter.[17]

The loss of so many world class athletes led Chef de Mission Brian Davies to conceded that the initial target of 27 medals was now optimistic.[18]

Medalists

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Athletics

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Track & road events
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Field Events
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Combined events – Decathlon
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Women
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Field Events
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Badminton

Singles & doubles
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Mixed team
Pool D
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Boxing

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Women
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Cycling

Road

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Track

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Pursuit
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Points race
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Scratch race
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Keirin
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Gymnastics

Artistic

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Team
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Individual
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Women
Team
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Individual
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Rhythmic

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Individual finals
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Team
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Hockey

Men
  • David Kettle
  • James Kyriakides
  • Michael Shaw
  • Benjamin Carless
  • Peter Swainson
  • Richard Gay
  • Lewis Prosser
  • Liam Brignull
  • Matthew Ruxton
  • Huw Jones
  • Owain Dolan-Gray
  • Rhys Gowman
  • Nicholas Rees
  • Andrew Cornick
  • Gareth Furlong
  • Daniel Kyriakides
Pool A
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.
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Women
  • Abi Welsford, forward
  • Leah Wilkinson, defender
  • Ria Male, goalkeeper
  • Katrin Budd, midfielder
  • Alys Brooks, midfielder
  • Sian French, midfielder
  • Sarah Jones, midfielder
  • Phoebe Richards, forward
  • Elen Barnes, defender
  • Beth Bingham, defender
  • Carys Tucker, midfielder
  • Xenna Hughes, defender
  • Eloise Laity, forward
  • Emma Batten, forward
  • Jo Westwood, defender
  • Danni Jordan, forward
Pool B
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Judo

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Women
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Lawn Bowls

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Mixed para-sport
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Netball

Pool B
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24 July 2014
13:30
Report Australia 63 – 36Wales     SECC Precinct
Umpires:
Ian Fuller (ENG)
Terrence Peart (JAM)
Reserve umpire:
Marie-Louw Van Der Merve (RSA)
Bassett Goals scored 24/28 (86%)
Caldwell Goals scored 12/15 (80%)
Medhurst Goals scored 8/11 (73%)
Thwaits Goals scored 19/23 (83%)
James Goals scored 8/11 (73%)
Lewis Goals scored 24/35 (69%)
Moseley Goals scored 4/7 (57%)

25 July 2014
11:30
Report England 65 – 25 Wales    SECC Precinct
Umpires:
Marie-Louw Van Der Merve (RSA)
Joshua Bowring (AUS)
Reserve umpire:
Michelle Phippard (AUS)
Corbin Goals scored 7/10 (70%)
Dunn Goals scored 20/22 (91%)
Harten Goals scored 33/43 (77%)
Housby Goals scored 5/9 (56%)
James Goals scored 11/16 (69%)
Lewis Goals scored 5/10 (50%)
Moseley Goals scored 9/15 (60%)
Thomas Goals scored 0/4 (0%)

26 July 2014
19:00
Report Wales 56 – 31 Trinidad and Tobago    SECC Precinct
Umpires:
Tracy Smith (ENG)
Clare McCabe (AUS)
Reserve umpire:
Ian Fuller (ENG)
James Goals scored 12/19 (63%)
Lewis Goals scored 31/40 (78%)
Moseley Goals scored 7/9 (78%)
Barker Goals scored 1/2 (50%)
Cooper Goals scored 5/7 (71%)
McCollin Goals scored 13/15 (87%)
Wilson Goals scored 12/19 (63%)

28 July 2014
09:30
Report Wales 47 – 35 Barbados    SECC Precinct
Umpires:
Sharon Kelly (AUS)
Gary Burgess (ENG)
Reserve umpire:
Marie-Louw Van Der Merve (RSA)
James Goals scored 7/10 (70%)
Lewis Goals scored 21/30 (70%)
Moseley Goals scored 19/29 (66%)
Browne Goals scored 21/27 (78%)
Thomas Goals scored 14/20 (70%)

29 July 2014
17:00
Report South Africa 61 – 41 Wales    SECC Precinct
Umpires:
Sharon Kelly (AUS)
Ian Fuller (ENG)
Reserve umpire:
Tracy Smith (ENG)
Holtzhausen Goals scored 5/8 (63%)
Myburgh Goals scored 8/13 (62%)
Potgieter Goals scored 48/54 (89%)
James Goals scored 16/24 (67%)
Lewis Goals scored 16/24 (67%)
Moseley Goals scored 3/5 (60%)
Thomas Goals scored 6/7 (86%)

Rugby Sevens

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26 July 2014
12:00
Wales 52–0 Malaysia
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Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

26 July 2014
18:46
Wales 29–7 Papua New Guinea
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Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

26 July 2014
21:26
Samoa 19–12 Wales
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Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Quarter-finals
27 July 2014
12:28
Australia 21–19 Wales
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Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Shooting

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Pistol

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Small Bore and Air Rifle

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Squash

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Swimming

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a Ieuan Lloyd finished in equal eighth position in the heats alongside England's Nick Grainger and Ryan Cochrane from Canada. A swim-off was held between the three competitors which Grainger won and was awarded with the eighth and last qualification place in to the final.
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* – Indicates athlete swam in the preliminaries but not in the final race.

Table tennis

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Triathlon

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Weightlifting

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Wrestling

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References

  1. Griffiths, Gareth (22 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games 2014: Gymnast Frankie Jones named as Team Wales opening ceremony flag bearer". walesonline.co.uk/. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. BBC Sport - Medal Table. Accessed 4 August 2014
  3. "Glasgow 2014: Geraint Thomas gold 'perfect ending' - Davies". BBC Sport. 3 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  4. "CGCW: About us". teamwales.co.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  5. "Helen Phillips, Chair of Welsh Gymnastics, Announced as New Chair of Commonwealth Games Wales". welshgymnastics.org. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  6. Williams, Aled (23 June 2014). "Glasgow 2014: Team Wales 'all on track' for Games". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  7. "Glasgow 2014: Wales will not revise medal target - Davies". bbc.co.uk. 28 June 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  8. "Glasgow 2014: Triathlete Non Stanford out of Games". bbc.co.uk. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  9. "Glasgow 2014: Becky James withdraws from Wales team". bbc.co.uk. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  10. "Glasgow 2014: Wales triathlete Helen Jenkins withdraws injured". bbc.co.uk. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  11. "Glasgow 2014: Team Wales suffer two more withdrawals". bbc.co.uk. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  12. "Wales' Gareth Warburton to miss Glasgow 2014 after doping charge". bbc.co.uk. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  13. "Glasgow 2014: Rhys Williams fails drugs test". bbc.co.uk. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  14. "Glasgow 2014: Fred Evans out Wales Commonwealth team". bbc.co.uk. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  15. "Glasgow 2014: Boxer Ashley Brace 'let down' over Games ruling". bbc.co.uk. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  16. "Glasgow 2014: Wales' Brian Davies admits medal count rethink". bbc.co.uk. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

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