1. William John Bayley was born on 17 January 1988 and is a British professional Paralympic table tennis player, ranked world number 1.
16 Facts About Will Bayley
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Will Bayley is the 2016 Summer Paralympics Games gold medallist and the 2014 World Champion.
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From September 2019 Bayley participated in the seventeenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Janette Manrara.
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Will Bayley was born on 17 January 1988 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
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Will Bayley was born with arthrogryposis which affects all four of his limbs.
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Will Bayley represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where he was knocked out of the table tennis C7 singles in the preliminary round after defeats against Germany's Jochen Wollmert and Ukraine's Mykhaylo Popov and a single victory against Shumel Shur of Israel.
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Will Bayley won a gold medal in the singles at the 2011 European Championships in Split, Croatia.
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Will Bayley won a silver medal in the men's Team event class 7, playing alongside Karabardak.
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Will Bayley won a silver medal in the London 2012 Summer Paralympics after losing to Germany's Jochen Wollmert in the class 7 final.
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At the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, Will Bayley won his first Paralympic gold medal after beating home-favourite Brazilian Israel Pereira Stroh.
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Will Bayley received a yellow card for jumping up onto the table in celebration.
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Will Bayley again won silver at the delayed Tokyo 2020 games, his third successive Paralympic medal.
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Will Bayley went on to win silver in the team event, where he had a rematch in the final against Yan Shuo, who he lost his olympic title to a week earlier.
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Will Bayley was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to table tennis.
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From September 2019 Will Bayley participated in the seventeenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Janette Manrara.
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The couple's Contemporary dance, to Lukas Graham's song "7 Years", was dedicated to the patients and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Will Bayley had been treated for cancer, aged seven.