Welsh Athletics has produced some of the Commonwealth Games all-time greats, such as hurdler Colin Jackson and middle distance runner Kirsty Wade.
Now, a new generation of athletes are looking to etch their names into the Welsh sporting history books when the Games descend on Glasgow this year.
We take a look at five of Wales' medal hopefuls across a plethora of sports ahead of the 2026 Games.
Jeremiah Azu
Five-time British champion Jeremiah Azu is an elite sprinter over 60m and 100m.
In 2022 he ran the latter in 9.90s in wind-assisted conditions, then proved he didn't need mother nature to help him go sub 10-second when he became the first Welsh sprinter ever to go below the mark, with a 9.97s at the True Athletes Classic in 2024.
Since then he has won European Indoor Championship Gold in 2023 over 60m, an Olympic Bronze as part of Team GB's 4x100m lineup at Paris 2024 and now heads to Glasgow in stellar form, off the back of equalling his PB and winning 60m gold at the 2025 World Indoor Championships.
Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala is the defending champion in the event and looks the man to beat once again, but Azu has seriously kicked on from his fifth-placed finish in 2022 and is optimistic that he can secure at least a podium in the Scottish capital.
Owain Harris-Allan
Harris-Allan already has one Commonwealth Games medal to his name having picked up Bantamweight Bronze in 2022.
This time round he has his sights set firmly on gold, before following in the footsteps of previous medallists Lauren Price and Joe Cordina in turning professional.
The 22-year-old has been fighting since he was seven and has 35 wins in Amateur Boxing, proving that he has what it takes to join an already long list of Welsh Commonwealth Games Boxing successes.
Rosie Eccles
Another boxer with previous at the Commonwealth Games, Rosie Eccles heads into the Games as the defending champion in the light-middleweight division.
The 29-year-old, who also won silver at the 2018 games in Australia, is aiming to become the first woman to defend light-middleweight gold in the Games' history.
It would be a fitting way to sign off for Eccles, who recently announced her intention to retire whatever happens in Glasgow.
Despite battling illness and injury setbacks throughout her time in Boxing -- missing the 2020 Olympic Games due to Covid -- she has had a storied career and one that Welsh Boxing will look back on fondly.
Emma Finucane
Carmarthen-born Emma Finucane knows how to win.
A team sprint Olympic Champion alongside Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell in 2024, she also won bronze in the individual keirin and sprint races in Paris, becoming the first woman to win three medals at a single games since Mary Rand in 1964.
This year alone she has won six times - thrice at the British National Track Championships, twice at the UCI Track World Cup and once at the UEC European Track Championships.
Add to those medals the countless victories and podiums prior, Finucane is certainly very well tuned to add a gold or three to her two Commonwealth bronzes in Birmingham.
Matt Richards
Commonwealth gold is the only accolade that Matt Richards is yet to achieve in the swimming pool.
A three-time World champion, two-time Olympic champion, four time European champion and European junior champion -- with eleven other medals to boot across those four sporting events -- Richards has done it all.
At just 23-years-old, he will likely have a fair few attempts at adding to those titles at the Commonwealth Games, and with the form he is currently in it is hard to see past him doing so in Glasgow this year.
