Anna Hursey


Anna Hursey is a Welsh table tennis player. She is thought to be the youngest person to represent Wales at senior level in any sport. Hursey competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Career

Hursey began playing table tennis at the age of five. In 2017, Hursey, aged 10, competed for Wales in a European Championship qualification match against Kosovo. In doing so, she is believed to be the youngest person to represent Wales at senior level in any sport. In the same year, she competed at the 2017 World Cadet Challenge. She competed for Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. She was nominated for the 2018 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award, which was won by Kare Adenegan.