James Roberts (British athlete)

James Roberts, born on 11 May 1986 in Mons, Belgium, is a wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic athlete based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales, who was born with femoral dysplasia. He started as a swimmer and progressed to rowing and sitting volleyball, finished fifth in the trunk and arm classification in adaptive rowing at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and eighth in sitting volleyball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, and has more recently played wheelchair basketball for the local side Rhyl Raptors. In 2021 he was part of the Great Britain team that took wheelchair rugby gold at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.