{"id":142560,"date":"2025-09-14T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142560\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:26:03","slug":"welsh-sporting-statues-show-18-men-but-no-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142560\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh sporting statues show 18 men but no women"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not the first time the lack of statues of influential women has been raised.<\/p>\n

Back in 2015, author Dr Jasmine Donahaye called for a national debate<\/a> on why women are not represented as widely as men.<\/p>\n

There are statues of Queen Victoria in Wrexham and Boudicca in Cardiff City Hall but, many argue, not enough of women who have contributed to Welsh culture.<\/p>\n

Chair of the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame, Phil Davies, said Jones is the latest in a line of “stand-out world class performers and great men” to be honoured.<\/p>\n

But he added: “The time has come for some of the great Welsh sportswomen to be recognised in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n

“It was great to see Steve Jones unveil his statue and so many inspirational Welsh sportsmen honoured in this way.<\/p>\n

“But now is the time to start the conversation about adding some of our outstanding women to the list.<\/p>\n

“The explosion in women’s sport this century means we have many more world and Olympic champions to consider from many different sports.<\/p>\n

“Surely the time has come to honour the likes of Kirsty Wade, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Nicole Cooke and Jayne Ludlow from the past.<\/p>\n

“That’s before we get on to the more modern day greats such as Jade Jones, Lauren Price, Elinor Barker, Hannah Mills, Emma Finucane and Jess Fishlock.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not the first time the lack of statues of influential women has been raised. Back in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-142560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}