Tommy Taylor (athlete)

Tommy Taylor was a British Paralympic athlete who won sixteen medals across five sports, including ten gold medals. After an accident in 1956 caused severe paralysis he was treated by Ludwig Guttmann, and he went on to compete at numerous Paralympic Games. His greatest success came in para table tennis between the Rome 1960 and Arnhem 1980 Games, where eight of his gold medals were won, in singles, doubles and team events. He also took a gold medal in snooker at Toronto 1976 and another in lawn bowls at Arnhem 1980, and won further medals in archery and in athletics pentathlon events, with bronze medals in snooker and lawn bowls at the 1984 Games at Stoke Mandeville and New York. His career spanned more than two decades of Paralympic competition.