Andy Blake

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Andy Blake

Wheelchair Basketball


Paralympics great Britain team have named Newport Pagnell's Andy Blake as a part of their men's British wheelchair basketball team for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Thirty-five year-old Blake, who made his Paralympic debut in Seoul in 1988 and won gold as a swimmer, will travel to his fifth Paralympic Games in Beijing this summer.

Men's head coach Murray Treseder said: "It was a very tough selection to make because the squad of 15 were all so even. The Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games open on September 6 and close on September 17.

The wheelchair basketball events at the Games take place at the University of Science and Technology Gymnasium before the finals at the National Indoor Stadium.