Welsh star Emma Finucane has created history by becoming the first sprint cyclist to win four track gold medals at the same Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Finucane added keirin success to the golds she had already won in the team and individual sprints and 1,000m time trial.<\/p>\n
Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews finished second when defending her Commonwealth keirin title.<\/p>\n
In Birmingham in 2022, New Zealand cyclist Aaron Gate won four gold medals with three on the track and one in the road race.<\/p>\n
Finucane has achieved her quartet of successes in four successive days in the Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Australian legend Anna Meares and New Zealander Andrews had previously won three track titles in 2010 and 2022 respectively.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has also become the first Welsh woman to collect four golds at a single Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Finucane is also Wales’ most successful female athlete in Games history after overtaking Para-sprinter Olivia Breen, who held the record for two days.<\/p>\n
Weightlifter David Morgan remains Wales’ most successful Commonwealth Games athlete with nine golds and three silver.<\/p>\n
Finucane won Wales’ 31st medal of the Games with nine gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze.<\/p>\n
The Carmarthen star has also been chosen to be the Team Wales flag bearer for the closing ceremony tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh star Emma Finucane has created history by becoming the first sprint cyclist to win four track gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-580715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}