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Tyler Baines

Wheelchair basketball

Date of Birth

29 March 2002

Age

21

Place of Birth

Barrow-in-Furness

Commonwealth Appearances
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After years of being tipped for great things, Tyler Baines delivered.

Making his major competition debut, Baines produced a bronze medal as part of the men's wheelchair squad as the sport made its debut at Birmingham 2022.

The 20-year-old from Barrow-in-Furness broke into the Great Britain Academy at the age of 17 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. 

He was a prodigious star for Carlisle Panthers, earning selection for Great Britain's under-17 side at the tender age of 13.

Baines took up wheelchair basketball after suffering a car accident on holiday in Spain, with his parents being told that their three-year-old son would never walk again.

However, he got by with support from his friends and family and will now take to the court at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. 

Wheelchair basketball
An exciting, action-packed, smaller format of the 5x5 game, 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball made history in Birmingham when the sport made its Commonwealth Games debut.

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