James Roberts (British athlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Roberts (British athlete)

Welsh sportsperson

Date of Birth: 11-May-1986

Place of Birth: Mons, Wallonia, Belgium

Profession: basketball player, rower, volleyball player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

James Roberts (born 11 May 1986 in Mons, Belgium) is a wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic athlete based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales.
Roberts was born with a disability called femoral dysplasia.
He started out in his sporting career as a swimmer, and progressed on to other Paralympic sports, such as rowing and sitting volleyball. He competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, finishing fifth in the trunk and arm classification in adaptive rowing.
He also competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, finishing 8th in the sitting volleyball.
More recently he has begun playing wheelchair basketball for local side Rhyl Raptors.