Hannah Brier has broken Wales' 200m record, running 22.79 seconds at the Stratford Speed Grand Prix in London. The previous record had stood for 44 years, held by Michelle Scutt who ran 22.80 in Antrim in June 1982. Brier also holds the Welsh 100m record of 11.26 seconds, set at the same Stratford meeting in 2025.

The 28-year-old from Neath, a Swansea Harrier, had already set a new Welsh indoor best of 23.25 at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham in February. Brier almost quit the sport in 2024, struggling to balance her job as a youth worker with an intense training regime before deciding to continue.

She represented Team Wales as a 16-year-old at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and again in Birmingham 2022. With the Commonwealth B standard secured for both the 100m and 200m, Brier will compete at this summer's Games in Glasgow.