Will Bayley

Will Bayley is a British Paralympic table tennis player who has been ranked world number one. Born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with arthrogryposis that affects all four of his limbs, he was diagnosed with cancer at seven and began playing table tennis after his grandmother bought him his first table. He joined the Byng Hall club at twelve, represented Kent in able bodied men's competition and has trained full time at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield since he was seventeen. He played at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, won the 2014 world title and took gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. In 2019 he appeared on Strictly Come Dancing.