Getting people to play Pétanque
Double National Singles Champion Jake Caston (Wheatsheaf PC) has been invited by the WPA Executive to represent Wales in the First Men’s Singles World Championship (the “Henri BERNARD Trophy”). The competition is scheduled to take place in Nice, France, over the period 23 to 25 January 2015. The Executive and members of the WPA wish Jake all […]
Today has been the first day of play at the Ladies World Championship, the Welsh team of Julie Bailey, Gemma Foster, Tansy Mayfield (captain) and Gay Evans supported by Jean-Yves Robic and Peter Beresford are now well into the 3rd qualifying round. Round 1 saw the Welsh team drawn against the Moroccan team, who are […]
EuroCup Report Late in the evening of a bone chilling Sunday in early March at Pen-y-Lan, The Wheatsheaf PC qualified to represent Wales in The EuroCup for Clubs for 2013. We took up the challenge and were drawn to play in Metz against winning clubs from France, Germany, Hungary and Latvia over the weekend 26th […]
Tansy Mayfield, Julie Bailey and Gemma Foster represented Wales at the Ladies’ European Championships held in Ghent, Belgium. At the same time Tony Smith, the Welsh Petanque Association executive member, was elected to the European Confederation, the governing body of the sport in Europe. Mayfield represented Wales in the precision shooting where she scored 17 […]