Two-time Paralympian Ashley Facey has put down his table tennis bat to pursue a new career in cycling. The 27-year-old Londoner has been a member of the British Para Table Tennis Team Performance Squad since 2009, representing his country in...
Coming of age is a term associated with maturity and Tokyo bronze medallist Jack Hunter-Spivey acknowledges that 2021 was a pivotal year for him, both on and off the table. “I’ve got new confidence after winning a medal in Tokyo...
Philip Lewis MBE, President of British Para Table Tennis has advised of the news that Paul Lyall sadly died on the 24th December 2021, aged 77. Paul was one of the British legends of the early years of the Paralympic...
When Ross Wilson fell to the ground after beating the Chinese Paralympic champion Zhao Shuai to win the men’s class 8 World singles title four years ago it was the realisation of a dream that had driven him since he...
To celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3, Liverpool FC teamed up with Paralympic bronze medallist Jack Hunter-Spivey to host a fun training session with local youngsters. Under its Red Together programme, LFC’s employee disability network arranged...
Success in any walk of life depends on overcoming the obstacles along the way and as the American minister Henry Ward Beecher once said: “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” For Fliss Pickard, gold medals in the recent...
British Para Table Tennis have been advised by our President Philip Lewis MBE that George Monaghan sadly passed away at home on 22nd August 2021.George had his accident in 1960 becoming a paraplegic and for 61 years was a wheelchair...
Tokyo 2020 may not have been the Paralympic debut that Joshua Stacey wanted but the young Welshman can still be very proud of his performance at these Games which has highlighted his huge potential. Having reached the quarter-finals of the...
While four of the British Para table tennis players representing ParalympicsGB in Tokyo are about to take part in their very first Paralympic Games, coach Neil Robinson is experiencing his tenth – a remarkable achievement and one that he admits...
This time last year the team was looking ahead to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo but looking back now on 2020 it has been a very different year to the one that everyone expected. While life was anything but ‘normal’...