Anna Hursey

Anna Hursey (born 22 June 2006)

Hursey competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, where she came third in the women's doubles event.

Personal life Hursey was born in Carmarthen, Wales, and attended Cardiff High School. She left Cardiff High School after Year 8. Hursey's mother is Chinese,

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.

After the 2020 Welsh National Championships, in which Hursey finished second to Charlotte Carey,

Hursey was selected in the Wales team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games; Hursey and Charlotte Carey came third in the women's doubles event at the Games, the first time that Welsh women had won a Commonwealth Games table tennis medal. She was part of the Wales team that finished fourth in the women's team competition,

Hursey was selected for the women's singles event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She went out in the first round to 18th seed Manika Batra from India.