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Glasgow 2026 Day Three - Preview
29/07/2026 00:00, I Mewn Blog / Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - Latest News /
Wales’ track and field team face their busiest day of the Commonwealth Games so far on Wednesday with half a dozen athletes in action across the two sessions and four finals.
Following her withdrawal from the women’s heptathlon, Abi Pawlett’s focus will be on the women’s 200m.
The first round gets underway at 10:30 on Wednesday morning and the Trafford AC athlete sees herself drawn in heat one.
Amongst Pawlett’s main challengers for a place in the semi-finals will be home favourite Alyson Bell, who shares the multi-eventer’s personal best of 23.01 and British Virgin Islands speedster Beyonce Defreitas who boasts a best of 22.81.
The morning session also sees the eagerly awaited return to a major championship of Jake Heyward (Cardiff Athletics) as the men’s mile makes an equally welcome appearance at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 60 years.
Heyward finished fifth in the 1500m at the Birmingham games in 2022. However, injury problems resulting in double Achillies surgery meant his appearance in the Zurich Diamond League in September of that year was his last competitive race until May of this year.
A spectacular return to action after a four year absence saw Heyward secure his Commonwealth Games place and then smash his own Welsh mile record at this month’s Diamond League meeting in London, where Scotland’s Josh Kerr broke the world record.
Both are in the line-up here with Heyward toeing the line in heat two of two which also features 2022 World 1500m Champion Jake Wightman, of Scotland.
Wednesday evening is a big night for Welsh throwers with five due to be in action.
First up at 19:00 is the women’s discus F42-44/F61-64 final where Cardiff Athletics clubmates Funmi Oduwaiye and Bree Cronin will both line up for their first Commonwealth Games.
Oduwaiye represented Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and won a bronze medal at last year’s World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, where Cronin finished fifth.
Among their rivals will be the delightfully named Goodness Nwachukwu, of Nigeria.
The men’s discus F42-44/F61-64 final at 20:25 also features a Welsh duo – Aled Davies (Cardiff Athletics) and Harrison Walsh (Swansea Harriers).
This will be Davies’ third Commonwealths having won silver the last time Glasgow hosted the event and gold in Birmingham four years ago.
The multiple global gold medallist will be joined in the final by joint Welsh athletics team captain Harrison Walsh (Swansea Harriers), who shared the podium with his team mate last time around in Birmingham when he picked up a bronze medal.
Also lining up in the men’s final will be England’s Dan Greaves and Trinidad and Tobago threat Akeem Stewart.
Another Team Wales thrower taking to the circle on Wednesday evening will be Adele Nicoll (Birchfield Harriers) in the women’s shot put final at 20:01.
In February of this year, Nicoll was hurtling down the ice at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Italy’s southern Dolomitic Alps at speeds well in excess of 70mph, representing Great Britain in bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics.
In Glasgow, the three-time UK shot put champion, is setting her sights on improving the eighth place she achieved at the Birmingham games four years ago.
The final will also feature Canada’s Sarah Mitton, who won a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships.
In between the two discus finals, Issy Boffey will be contesting her 800m semi-final.
The Enfield and Haringey athlete goes in the first of two races where she will be up against the likes of reigning 800m World Champion Lilian Odira, of Kenya.
Boffey finished second to Odira in their first round heat, where the Welsh athlete ran 2:01.53. The semi-finals are due to start at 20:06.
Wednesday night’s Welsh action will be rounded off on the track where Cari Hughes (Menai Track and Field) is among the line-up for the women’s 3,000m steeplechase at 21:40.
Hughes has shown remarkable versatility across a number of endurance disciplines and last year broke the Welsh 3,000m steeplechase record on her debut in the event.
Among those Hughes will face in the final is Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai, who has the fastest personal best in the field.