Wolverhampton man wins gold at the Invictus Games
A man from Wolverhampton is celebrating a gold medal at the Invictus Games in wheelchair basketball.
Andrew Roberts was part of the victorious British squad that beat the favourites USA in the final 19-9.
Prince Harry was the driving force behind the four-day sporting that saw 400 wounded, injured or sick serving military personnel and veterans go head-to-head in nine adaptive sports mainly at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
Injured veterans including the UK, US, Denmark, Estonia, France and Italy, Canada, Holland, Australia, Afghanistan, Georgia, New Zealand and Germany took part the event over the weekend.
Prince Harry, who himself has performed two tours of duty in Afghanistan, was inspired to put on the event by the Warrior Games in the US last year. The Prince launched the contest earlier this year to support rehabilitation and raise awareness of those injured serving their countries.
Also flying the flag for Staffordshire and the Black Country were Clive Smith, 28, of Hednesford, who represented Britain at cycling, archer Paul Bennett, 44, from Walsall. He suffered a spinal injury while in Basra, Iraq, in 2007 following an explosion and also has hearing difficulties.
See also: Stars shine brightly at Sandwell Commonwealth Games celebrations.
