Paul Lyall

Paul Lyall, who lived from 1944 to 24 December 2021, was a British para table tennis player who competed at three Paralympic Games, winning a total of six medals including three gold medals, and was known as one of the British legends of the early years of the Paralympics. He was born in Writtle, Chelmsford, and after nine months of rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he was introduced to wheelchair table tennis. At the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo he won two gold medals in the men's singles and doubles, and he won two more golds at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, with Phillip Lewis in the doubles.