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Team UK’s Invictus Games lineup revealed

Published on: 18 May 2018

Britain’s 72-strong team for this year’s Invictus Games has been revealed.

Almost two-thirds of the wounded, injured and sick serving military personnel and veterans who make up Team UK are new to Invictus.

More than 451 people applied for a place on Team UK and trials were attended by His Royal Highness Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in one of their last joint appearances ahead of the Royal Wedding.

Participants were chosen based on the benefit the Invictus Games would give an individual as part of their recovery, combined with performance and commitment to training.

Team UK will be captained by Mark ‘Dot’ Perkins, a former Royal Signals Corporal who was discharged in 2005 and now works as a civil servant rehabilitating injured soldiers.

He said the Invictus Games empower participants “to fight the chains of physical disability, to fight the intangible burden of mental illness and they empower us to focus on being the best we can be despite the scars that we all now wear”.

The overall team will take part in 11 sports: athletics, archery, wheelchair basketball, cycling, powerlifting, indoor rowing, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis and sailing, a new sport for 2018.

This year’s week-long Invictus Games get underway from October 20th.

The full squad for Team UK is:

  • Naomi Adie - athletics
  • Karl Allen-Dobson - cycling
  • David Atkin - cycling, powerlifting and rowing
  • Daniel Bingley - athletics, sailing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby
  • Spencer Bull - athletics, cycling, sailing and swimming
  • Terrysa Bulman - sailing
  • Andy Carlton - athletics and swimming
  • Jennifer Collins - archery and rowing
  • Alex Dewar - swimming
  • Joe Dillnut - archery, athletics and swimming
  • Peter Dunning - athletics and wheelchair rugby
  • Karen Fisk - athletics and swimming
  • Richard Gamble - swimming
  • Kelly Ganfield - athletics and rowing
  • Phillip Gillespie - archery and rowing
  • Lavinia Goddard - powerlifting and sailing
  • Deborah Godfrey - archery and sailing
  • Michael Goody - cycling and swimming
  • Paul Guest - archery, athletics, cycling and powerlifting
  • Murray Hambro - athletics, rowing and swimming