Commonwealth Games | Glasgow 2026

As an up-and-coming Welsh rugby player, Harrison Walsh had not long turned professional when he was told he’d never be back on the pitch again.

Playing for Swansea RFC, he suffered a career-ending knee injury. Told he might struggle to walk again. Harrison grieved what might have been.

But his love of pulling on the red of Cymru has helped Harrison overcome his physical and mental health challenges.

Picking up the discus, he is now looking ahead to the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. And he’s certainly no first-timer – he won bronze four years ago at the Birmingham 2022 Games. And he’s a world and European medallist too. He won his first-ever world medal with bronze at the World Para Athletics Championships in Japan in 2024. He also claimed bronze at the 2021 European Championships in Poland.

He has been to two Paralympics: Tokyo, where he was sadly unable to compete due to injury, and Paris, where he finished seventh. He is now working towards getting on the podium at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympics.

But his true love is competing for Wales at the Commonwealth Games:

“It puts all sporting moments in my life into perspective. The roots of every performance trace back to me loving sport from a young age, imagining myself wearing the red of Cymru.”

Harrison loves to paint and draw and has even displayed and sold his work in a London exhibition. He collects and builds lego and plays golf.

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