TOP AWARD FOR BRILLIANT BEN

BEN Pritchard has been named BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year.

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The 33-year-old para-rower from Mumbles has won the award after a sensational 12 months.

The 2024 Paralympic champion completed a full set of major titles in 2025, adding both the European and world crowns to his name to achieve a notable hat-trick of gold medals.

Pritchard comes from a sporting family. His father was a respected judoka and rugby player, while his mother played netball for the Welsh police force.

His early sporting love was sailing, joining Mumbles Yacht Club and going on to represent Wales and Great Britain in varying boat classes in his youth. But inspired by one of his teachers, Pritchard took up cycling and triathlon and it seemed that was where his sporting career would lie.