Army boxer Niamh Brookes and RAF swimmer Kyle Booth will represent Wales at 2026 Commonwealth Games

Army boxer Lance Corporal Niamh Brookes and RAF swimmer Corporal Kyle Booth will represent Wales at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Cpl Booth is the leading light of RAF Aquatics. He's the reigning Inter Services champion and has a Commonwealth Games past - competing in the Birmingham Games in 2022 before joining the military.

This year, he took on Britain’s best including Olympic champion Adam Peaty coming seventh in the GB Championships. His personal best heat times during that event rubberstamped his spot at this year’s Games.

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Meanwhile, LCpl Brookes has proven herself as one of the military's best boxing talents. She won bronze at the 70th Bocskai Istvan International tournament in Debrecen, Hungary in March and revealed her LA Olympics dream to BFBS Forces News last year.

She said: "That's a long-term goal. You want to reach as far as you can. The goal for now is to get on that Wales squad full-time, hopefully get to the Commonwealth Games and progress to the GB squad.

"Who knows? Hopefully, in the Olympics in a few years' time."

Both the boxing and swimming events begin on the opening day of the Games on 24 July.