Fortune eyes Commonwealths after World Para win

Sabrina Fortune is hoping to compete astatine nan 2026 Commonwealth Games successful Glasgow aft smashing her ain changeable put world grounds astatine nan World Para Athletics Championships.

The 28-year-old from Wrexham competes successful nan F20 class for athletes pinch intelligence impairments and has dominated her arena since taking golden astatine nan 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Fortune claimed a 4th consecutive world title pinch a caller world grounds propulsion of 16.75m successful New Delhi - bettering her ain erstwhile people of 15.75m.

With nan Los Angeles Paralympics not taking spot until 2028, Fortune believes her advancement could let her to compete for Wales against non-disability athletes successful Glasgow.

"I want [to throw] 17.07m for mainstream Commonwealths, that's really my adjacent goal," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"My event's not successful nan Commonwealths rhythm truthful I'm chasing nan mainstream instead."

Welsh Athletics' B modular women's changeable put qualifying region to beryllium considered for action for nan adjacent Commonwealth Games is simply a propulsion longer than 17.07m, while nan A modular - nan people that would trigger automatic action - is 18.24m.

In nan meantime, Fortune tin bask her success, having praised nan organisation of this World Para Athletics Championships while dealing pinch nan precocious temperatures of India.

"Everything has been put connected so, truthful good but it's decidedly a batch hotter present though," she added.

"That's nan 1 that we're each struggling with, it's conscionable nan power of it. Compared to what we person successful nan UK it's rather different, very humid."