Aled Sion Davies won the silver medal in the Commonwealth games Para-sport F42/44 discus at Hampden Park.
A best throw of 46.83m by the Team Wales Captain put Davies in second place and only eleven points behind England's Dan Greaves.
A distraught Aled Davies was in floods of tears afterwards as he embraced his coach Anthony Hughes and apologised for not winning gold.
“I apologised to my coach but he told me there was nothing to be sorry and said he was proud of me," said Davies.
“All the emotions came out because I felt I let everyone down but it’s just one of those things in sport.
“I’m devastated and I just hope I haven’t let people down.
“It was a tough one. Coming in I was aiming for gold and I knew I was capable of winning but I also knew it would be close between me and Dan.
“I managed to take the lead early on but Dan came out and bettered my throw. It was so close and I’m disappointed because I wanted it so much.
“I’ve never wanted to win anything more in my life and maybe that turned into a bit of a negative.
“I’m happy with my performance but you always think you could have thrown further.
“I’ve been in such good form in the past few years but with the combined with the points it was always going to be tough.
“But he had to throw close to his best as well."
Aled competed in a combined event of the F42 & F44 classification groups, and therefore had the challenge of throwing against less-impaired athletes. A points system is used in such events, and a points system used, similar to points you would gain from events in the Decathlon. A thrower who would be nearest to their World Record in their classification group would gain the most points, and therefore this time Dan Greaves threw nearest to his World Record.
