MACSORLEY James
Great Britain
13 Feb 1995
26
Male
2.0
BELFAST
Great Britain
LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Spain
Events and Medals
| Discipline | Event | Rank | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
 Wheelchair Basketball |
Men | 3 |
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Schedule
Change
| Start Time | Location | Event | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ariake Arena |
GBR Great Britain 70 ALG Algeria 43 |
Finished |
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| Musashino Forest Sport Plaza |
GER Germany 71 GBR Great Britain 59 |
Finished |
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| Musashino Forest Sport Plaza |
GBR Great Britain 64 USA United States 63 |
Finished |
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| Musashino Forest Sport Plaza |
IRI Islamic Rep. of Iran 57 GBR Great Britain 69 |
Finished |
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| Ariake Arena |
AUS Australia 69 GBR Great Britain 70 |
Finished |
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| Ariake Arena |
GBR Great Britain 66 CAN Canada 52 |
Finished |
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| Ariake Arena |
#68
JPN Japan 79 GBR Great Britain 68 |
Finished |
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| Ariake Arena |
ESP Spain 58 GBR Great Britain 68 |
Finished |
ALG
GER
USA
IRI
AUS
CAN
JPN
ESPBiographical Information
Highlights
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| Rank | Event | Year | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championships | ||||
| 1 | Men | 2018 | Hamburg, GER | |
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Spending time with his partner, going to the beach, watching films and TV shows reading, playing cards, podcasting. (belfasttelegraph.co.uk, 04 Apr 2020; irishnews.com, 14 May 2020)
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Athlete
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Language Studies - Spanish, Law - Queen's University Belfast, Great Britain
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Partner Anna
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English, Spanish
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BSR ACE Gran Canaria [Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ESP] since 2019
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Haj Bhania [national]
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His sister Eimear has played wheelchair basketball for the Carlisle Panthers. She won the Northern Ireland Disabled Sportswoman of the Year Award in 2014. (bbc.co.uk, 01 Sep 2018; belfasttelegraph.co.uk, 14 Jul 2018)
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2018 for Great Britain, World Championships in Hamburg, Germany (rollt-magazin.de, 21 Jun 2019)
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Division de Honor [ESP] (rollt-magazin.de, 21 Jun 2019)
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He took up wheelchair basketball at age six at the Knights club in Antrim, Northern Ireland. (bbc.co.uk, 01 Sep 2018)
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He and his sister were encouraged to take up sport by his mother. "My parents wanted to get my sister and I involved in some sort of recreational activity and they came across wheelchair basketball. I wasn't a big fan at the start. It took me a while to get used to it because I think when you start playing a sport like that when you're six, there's only so much you can do to adapt the sport to someone who's that small and that weak, so I was like pushing around in a big chair that I could barely push, I couldn't reach the basket, couldn't bounce the ball. I was kind of thinking, 'What am I doing here?' We got told to stick at it for a while and I remember a sort of eureka moment when I was about 10, so it took four years, and I was dribbling a ball around, I was pushing, I was crossing over right to left and I remember thinking, 'This is pretty good when you get it right'." (bbc.co.uk, 01 Sep 2018; Disability Sport NI YouTube channel, 08 Apr 2020)
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To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (bbc.co.uk, 01 Sep 2018)
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His partner Anna, Irish wheelchair basketball player Paul McKillop and coach Aubrey Bingham. (rollt-magazin.de, 21 Jun 2019; belfasttelegraph.co.uk, 14 Jul 2018; Disability Sport NI YouTube channel, 08 Apr 2020)
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"Always be ready." [British wheelchair basketball player Joe Williams] (rollt-magazin.de, 21 Jun 2019)
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He was a member of Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team that was awarded the Bill McGowran Trophy at the 2018 Sports Journalists' Association's British Sports Awards. (yahoo.com, 23 Dec 2018; sportsjournalists.co.uk, 01 Jan 2020)
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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