China Medals

Words by Francesca Bullock (GB Media) Silver medals for Jack Hunter-Spivey in men’s class 5 and Ashley Facey-Thompson in men’s class 9 were the highlights for the British team in the singles events at the PTT China Open in Hangzhou today. Megan Shackleton (women’s class 4), Fliss Pickard (women’s class 6), Joshua Stacey (men’s class…

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Stacey Adds Gold in Finland

Finland Para Open 2019 (updated) Josh Stacey has won a Silver medal at the Finland Para Open today. Josh fought back from 2-1 down to beat Kusnanto from Indonesia 3-2 and then beat the World silver medallist Iurii Nozdrunov from Russia 3-1. He secured top place in his group and a bye into the semi-finals…

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Medals in Czech

Josh Stacey added more medals to his ever increasing tally with a Silver in the Class 9 singles, plus Gold in the team with Ashley Facey Thompson. Topping his group in the singles, Josh then beat fellow Team mate Thompson in the semis 3/1. The final was against Spaniard Perez Gonzalez and the Welshman lost…

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Czech Para Open

Words by Francesca Bullock (British Para TT media officer) Paralympic champion Rob Davies heads a squad of 14 British athletes competing in this week’s PTT Czech Open in Ostrava from September 6-8. The 35 year old, who will bid for a fourth consecutive European title later this month, faces strong opposition in the men’s class…

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Emerging Athlete of the Year

Josh Stacey has been shortlisted by Disability Sport Wales as one of 3 nominations for the Emerging Athlete of the year award at their annual celebrations. Josh, Who’s had a fantastic season since winning Bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast in April 2018, is climbing the Para World rankings and winning multiple medals…

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World Championships

Welsh participation ended this morning on Day 3 of the ITTF Liebherr World Championships 2019 as Charlotte Carey lost out, in the closest of matches, to Zion Lee of Korea 4/3 This was the last 128 round The Korean is ranked 73 to Charlottes 133 before the match started (Match Stats – Charlotte right side)…

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Silver for Josh in Spain

Josh Stacey has won another International medal, this time a Silver medal at the Spanish Para Open Josh, World number 15, beat Kats (13th in world of UKR) 3:0 in the Semi Finals, but lost the same score line in the final to former European medalist and current world ranked 11th Bereczki (HUN) More great…

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Double Gold for Josh

  Team Events   More Gold for Stacey in Ostrava: Kim Daybell, Ashley Facey Thompson and Josh Stacey won gold in the men’s class 10 team event at the Czech Open in Ostrava today, with Fliss Pickard and her Swedish team partner Caisa Stadler taking silver in the women’s class 6-7 event and Craig Allen…

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