British competitors won 13 table tennis medals at the World Transplant Games in Dresden, including golds for Kristof Polgar and Patricia Collier.

Polgar won the Men’s Singles 15-17 without dropping a game, culminating in a 3-0 (11-2, 11-8, 11-6) win over Varun Anand of India. It follows his gold medal at the last edition of the Games, in Perth, Australia, in 2023.

Collier took gold ahead of compatriot Evelyn Kearney in the round-robin Women’s Singles 70-79. She won their match 3-0 (11-1, 11-7, 11-8), leaving Kearney to settle for silver.

In the Men’s Singles 12-14, there was silver for Noah Raina, who was defeated in the final by Paul Korner of the host nation – Raina had beaten him 3-2 (11-13, 6-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-9) in the group stage but Korner won the final 3-0 (8, 8, 7).

There was silver for Jade Carr in the Women’s Singles 30-39 round-robin contest, finishing behind Stefanie Krenmayer of Austria.

In the round-robin Women’s Singles 18-29, Millie Stobie Platts and Eloise Lowrie won silver and bronze respectively, behind Edina Jakucs of Hungary. Millie won the meeting of the two British athletes 3-1 (11-3, 11-7, 10-12, 11-7).

Lucy Bowskill won bronze in the Women’s Singles 40-49, narrowly missing out 3-2 (11-3, 11-4, 12-14, 7-11, 11-1) to champion Siwaporn Bunya of Thailand in the semi-finals.

Boryana Nankova and Helen Tasker both reached the semi-finals of the Women’s Singles 60-69 but went out to silver medallist Beate Bea of Germany and champion Mei Wu of China respectively.

In the doubles competitions, Richard Morton & Waseem Qureshi won silver in the Men’s Doubles 30-49, losing out 3-0 (5, 7,6) to Bernat Bacsi & Janos Szendi in the final.

There was also silver for Jacob Guerreri & Oliver Edwards in the Men’s Doubles 18-29 as they lost out to Panagiotis Letsios & Alexandros Diakoumakos of Greece in the final.

Boryana Nankova & Lucy Bowskill were third in the round-robin Women’s Doubles 30-49 competition, behind pairs from Germany and China.

It meant Great Britain finished fourth in the table tennis medals table, behind Hungary, Germany and Greece.

There were 30 British competitors in total in the table tennis events, including Alex Bell from Newcastle, who featured on the BBC website earlier this week.

This is the 25th staging of the Games, which attracts around 2,500 competitors from 60 nations, with 17 sports on the programme. The Games close on Sunday.