WILSON Ross

5 Jun 1995
26
Male
8
MAIDSTONE
 
Great Britain
SHEFFIELD
 
Great Britain

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
TTE Table Tennis Men's Team - Class 8 3 Bronze Medal
Men's Singles - Class 8 5

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3
FRA
BERTHIER CBERTHIER Clement
 Sport Class: 8
0
GBR
WILSON RWILSON Ross
 Sport Class: 8
3
Finished
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3
CHN
PENG WPENG Weinan
 Sport Class: 8
3
GBR
WILSON RWILSON Ross
 Sport Class: 8
2
Finished
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2
SWE
ANDERSSON EANDERSSON Emil
 Sport Class: 8
0
GBR
WILSON RWILSON Ross
 Sport Class: 8
3
Finished
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2
UKR
NIKOLENKO MNIKOLENKO Maksym
 Sport Class: 8
3
GBR
WILSON RWILSON Ross
 Sport Class: 8
1
Finished
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2
GBR
Great Britain
2
HUN
Hungary
0
Finished
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2
GBR
Great Britain
0
CHN
China
2
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocation
Paralympic Games
3Team - Classes 6-82016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
3Team - Classes 6-82012London, GBR
4Singles - Class 82012London, GBR
13Singles - Class 82016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
1Singles - Class 82018Lasko, SLO
7Team - Class 82017Bratislava, SVK
Commonwealth Games
1Men's Singles Class 6-102018Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
European Championships
2Team - Class 82019Helsingborg, SWE
3Singles - Class 82017Lasko, SLO
3Team - Class 82017Lasko, SLO
5Singles - Class 82019Helsingborg, SWE
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Athlete
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Loughborough College, Great Britain
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English
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2011 for Great Britain, in Eger, Hungary (Athlete, 15 Mar 2015)
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In early 2019 he sustained a minor back injury. (ittf.com, 07 Mar 2019)

He was affected by a back injury during the 2017 World Team Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. (ittf.com, 17 May 2017)

During 2015 he suffered from injuries to his knee, elbow and back. (paralympics.org.uk, 21 Sep 2019)

He sustained a shoulder injury after the 2012 Paralympic Games in London that kept him out of action for more than a year. (paralympics.org.uk, 21 Sep 2019)
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He first tried the sport at age seven while on holiday. (kentsport.org, 05 Feb 2012; paralympics.org.uk, 07 Apr 2012)
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"I first started playing table tennis on a holiday at Center Parcs. I had a Thierry Henry Arsenal shirt on and I won the competition, so the man working there named me the Thierry Henry of table tennis. I realised I wanted to take it to the next level quite early on in my career and moved to London [England] when I was 13 to practice and study at an academy." (ittf.com, 03 Sep 2020; kentsport.org, 05 Feb 2012)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo and to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (rosswilsontt.co.uk, 28 Apr 2017; tabletennisengland.co.uk, 28 Jul 2020; ittf.com, 03 Sep 2020)
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He trains at the English Institute of Sport [EIS] in Sheffield, England. (ittf.com, 26 Apr 2019)
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Winning gold in the men's TT6-10 singles event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, and in the TT8 singles event at the 2018 World Championships in Lasko, Slovenia. (ittf.com, 03 Sep 2020)
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French footballer Thierry Henry. (Athlete, 15 Mar 2015)
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His mother. (Athlete, 15 Mar 2015)
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"I always set myself very high targets and have very high expectations of myself. I look to approach every game and every opponent one at a time, as I feel in control when I work this way." (ittf.com, 03 Sep 2020)
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In 2019 he was inducted into the English Institute of Sport Sheffield's Hall of Champions. (ittf.com, 26 Apr 2019)
Legend
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Bronze Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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