News – British Para Table Tennis

British Para Table Tennis receives funding increase for LA cycle

British Para Table Tennis has been awarded funding of £4,175,000 for the next Paralympic cycle, an increase of just under 10% on the £3,808,787 sum awarded during the lead-up to Paris 2024, where British athletes won two silver and three...

Facey calls time on table tennis career

Two-time Paralympian Ashley Facey has retired from table tennis to take up a role as a sales rep with Enovis - a company that makes orthopaedic implants. “It is a big decision,” acknowledged Facey. “I’m still young but I’m nearly...

McKibbin shines at National Championships with three titles

Aaron McKibbin bounced back from disappointing results at the Paralympic Games by sweeping the board at the Michael Hawkesworth National Championships in Sheffield this weekend, winning the Open Standing Singles, Class 8 and Open Standing Doubles titles while Jack Hunter-Spivey...

New names on Michael Hawkesworth National Championships Roll of Honour

Day one of the Michael Hawkesworth National Championships in Sheffield produced some very competitive matches and notable performances that highlighted the growth of Para table tennis in the UK. In the absence of a number of the Performance athletes it...

BPTT National Championships Results

The Michael Hawkesworth BPTT National Championships 2024 took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from 2nd - 3rd November 2024.

Doubles gold for Ryan in France

Following his silver in the men’s class 1-2 singles at the 2024 SQY French Para Open in Voisins les Bretonneux yesterday former GB wheelchair rugby captain Chris Ryan took gold in the men’s class 4 doubles today with Tomasz Jakimczuk...

Thakker takes first gold in French Open

Pathway athlete Shae Thakker from High Wycombe won his first gold medal in the men’s class 10 singles at the 2024 SQY French Para Open in Voisins les Bretonneux in the south-western suburbs of Paris today. Chris Ryan was just...

French Open marks start of next Paralympic cycle for British team

With Paris 2024 now consigned to the history books the next Paralympic cycle is already underway and a squad of nine athletes from the British Para Table Tennis Team is heading back to France for the 2024 SQY French Para...

Teenager Twomey California Dreaming

Three years after taking up table tennis 14-year-old Bly Twomey was standing on the podium at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games with four-time Paralympic champion Kelly van Zon, World and European champion Kubra Korkut and five-time Asian Para Games champion...

Heartbreak for Bayley after spectacular men’s class 7 final

Will Bayley missed out on the gold medal by the smallest of margins after a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat to China’s Yan Shuo in the final of men’s class 7. The match was a repeat of the final in Tokyo that...