21 July 2026
ParalympicsGB stars set to compete at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games
ParalympicsGB stars will compete for their respective Home Nation in a range of events at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from July 23rd to August 2nd.
Glasgow 2026 will feature a record 47 Para sport medal events, making it the largest integrated Para sport programme in Commonwealth Games history.
The Paralympic sports to feature are Para athletics, Para cycling, Para Powerlifting, Para swimming, 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball and Para Bowls which does not currently feature in the Paralympics Games
Here we spotlight just a few of the ParalympicsGB stars who will be representing, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales at Glasgow 2026:
Team England
Kadeena Cox
Four-time ParalympicsGB cycling champion Kadeena Cox is set for her Team England debut, having twice missed out on the Commonwealth Games due to injury while competing in para-athletics and this being the first time the C4 classification is eligible to compete at the Games in Para cycling.
Kadeena showed yet again that she is one of the greatest Paralympians of all time after she recovered from injury to retain her 750m team sprint title alongside teammates Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy.
She competed in Cycling and Athletics at Tokyo 2020 winning two gold medals at the velodrome in the Mixed 750m Team sprint C1-C5 along with Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy and the 500m time trial C4-C5 before competing in the T38 400 metres where she finished in fourth place#.
At Rio 2016 Kadeena won three medals in athletics with gold in the T38 400m, silver in the 4x100m and bronze in the 100m. She also completed a remarkable achievement claiming a gold medal in cycling with victory in the C4-5 time trial to become the first British Paralympian for 32 years to win medals in two different sports
Peter Cusack in action at Paris 2024
Peter Cusack
Peter made his ParalympicsGB debut at Paris 2024 and was part of the Wheelchair Basketball team that achieved the nation’s best result in the sport in 28 years by claiming second place and the silver medal.
In a pulsating final, ParalympicsGB fought back from 12 points down but succumbed to 73-69 defeat to Team USA who claimed their own title of the greatest team ever after making it a historic three titles on the trot.
Peter first tried the sport of wheelchair basketball at a Paralympic sports day after London 2012 at Stoke Mandeville, taking up the sport fully with hometown club Coventry CWBA. He’s been part of the GB set-up since 2015 and will make his Commonwealth Games debut at Glasgow 2026
Ellard for England
William Ellard
Paralympic champion William Ellard will look to add the Commonwealth title to his name when he represents Team England for the first time in 2026.
He stormed to S14 200m freestyle gold at Paris 2024, where he set a new world record, and followed that up with another victory in the mixed 4x100m relay. He also added a silver medal in the S14 100m butterfly.
The 20-year-old now has his sights set on climbing the Commonwealth podium, to further add to his already impressive medal collection, which includes a S14 200m freestyle world title.
William is also the current S14 100m freestyle world record holder, after clocking 50.41s at the 2026 British Championships.
Sophie Hahn at Paris 2024
Sophie Hahn
At her first Paralympic Games at Rio 2016, Sophie won gold in the T38 100m and T35-38 4x100m silver. A year later in front of a home crowd at the London 2017 World Championships Hahn struck double sprint gold - with two world records to boot.
2018 saw her add to her gold medal tally with a T38 100m win at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.
Tokyo 2020 brought further success as Sophie safely retained her Paralympic sprint title after equalling her word record mark of 12.38 in the heats.
Since then, in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, she won a silver medal in the 100m. She finished sixth in the 100m at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Northern Ireland
Bethany Firth
Five-time Paralympic gold medallist Bethany Firth will represent Northern Ireland in Para swimming
Bethany, who won gold for Ireland at London 2012 before switching to represent ParalympicsGB at subsequent Games, became a mother for the first time last year and recently recorded the second quickest time in history in the Women’s S14 100m Backstroke.
At Rio 2016 she claimed three gold medals in the 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 200m medley and a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke.
At her third Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Bethany once again defended her S14 100m backstroke title from London and Rio, while also winning gold in the 4x100m S14 mixed freestyle relay and silvers in the 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley
The 30-year-old will contest the Women’s S14 200m Freestyle, which she won at Birmingham 2022.
Firth in action at the World Para Swimming Championships 2025
Scotland
Neil Fachie
A five-time ParalympicsGB medallist, Neil has come out of retirement to compete for Team Scotland in front of a home crowd at Glasgow 2024.
At London 2012 Neil and pilot Barney Storey won gold in the tandem B kilo and came second in the tandem B sprint against team-mates Anthony Kappes and Craig Maclean.
In Rio 2016 along with pilot Pete Mitchell, Neii narrowly missed out on gold by less than half a second to Dutch rider Tristan Bangma, adding Paralympic silver to his impressive collection.
At Tokyo 2020 he crossed the line fastest in the B 1000m to secure gold for ParalympicsGB along with pilot Matt Rotherham and the pair won a silver medal in the same event at Paris 2024 behind fellow ParalympicsGB riders James Ball and Steffan Lloyd
Neil has also cemented his place in Commonwealth Games history over the past three Games. Birmingham 2022 saw Neil, piloted by Lewis Stewart, win gold in the Time Trial and silver in the Sprint, making him the second most successful athlete in Team Scotland’s history with five gold and one silver medal.
Neil Fachie blows a kiss towards the Paris crowd
Hope Gordon
Hope Gordon will make history when she represents Team Scotland this summer, becoming the first athlete to compete at a Summer Paralympics, Winter Paralympics and Commonwealth Games across three different sports.
She won a silver medal for ParalympicsGB behind team-mate Charlotte Henshaw in the Women’s Va’a Single 200m VL3 race. The 31-year-old was competing at her first summer Paralympic Games in Paris, having competed in Nordic Skiing at the winter Games in Beijing 2022.
She became ParalympicsGB’s first ever female Para Nordic skier, having been introduced to the sport by a friend late in 2021 after the conclusion of her Para canoe season.
At Glasgow 2026 she will represent Team Scotland in Powerlifting combining this sport with her continued success in Para canoe.
Hope Gordon on the Paris podium
Ben Sandilands
Ben Sandilands will be one of Team Scotland’s top medal hopefuls when he makes his Commonwealth Games debut in front of a passionate home crowd at Glasgow 2026.
He made a memorable Paralympic debut at Paris 2024 that saw him take Gold in the T20 1500m and breaking the World Record in the process.
Ben announced himself on the world stage in Paris in 2023 when he became the T20 1500m champion at the age of 19 in his first year on the World Class Programme. He made an incredible surge in the last 200m to win in a Championship Record time of 3:52.42.
His athletics history dates back to the age of 10, where he has been running for his club in Fife. In Scotland, he trains alongside the reigning Paralympic champion in the T20 1500m, Owen Miller who is also competing at Glasgow 2026.
Sandilands smashes the World Record in Paris
Wales
James Ball
James Ball is a Paralympic champion and multiple world champion Para-cyclist who competes in tandem B events as a visually impaired athlete.
He first represented Wales through Disability Sport Wales at a swimming gala in 2003, before later pursuing athletics and then switching to cycling after being talent-spotted by British Cycling.
He made his international breakthrough in 2016, winning World Championship bronze in the Tandem B Sprint with pilot Craig Maclean. A year later, he was paired with Matt Rotherham and the pair won double gold at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, taking titles in both the 1km Time Trial and Sprint.
After winning Paralympic silver at Tokyo 2020 behind fellow ParalympicsGB athletes Neil Fachie and Matt Rotherham, James reversed the placings to win gold at Paris 2024 in the Men’s B 1,000m Time Trial with pilot Steffan Lloyd.
James Ball
Aled Davies
Aled is one of ParalympicsGB’s most successful athletes and holds the world record in both the F42 shot put and discus.
He has competed at four Paralympic Games, making his debut at London 2012, and has amassed three golds, a silver and a bronze during that time.
This will be his third Commonwealth Games, and he will be looking forward to returning to Glasgow where he won silver, aged 23, in the F42-44 discus event.
The proud Welshman was also named team captain – the youngest in Welsh history. Four years later, at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he achieved gold in the same event.
Aled Davies in shot put action at Paris 2024
Where to watch?
Viewers in the UK and Ireland can watch free-to-air daily highlights on Channel 5 and full coverage of the Games on TNT Sports.
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