Grace Williams
Llanfyllin Grace Williams
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Grace first started playing table tennis at the age of 12 during a disability sports day. Although not previously interested in sport she fell in love with table tennis and from playing once a week at her local club in Wrexham she graduated to the BPTT Pathway Squad in 2019, making her international debut in the Dutch Open that same year.
In September 2021 Williams moved to Sheffield where she has now completed a degree in nutrition while training with the BPTT Performance Squad at the English Institute of Sport.
In May 2022 Grace was selected to represent Team Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Later that year she was awarded a wild card to compete in the World Championships in Andalucia and she exceeded all expectations by taking gold in the women’s class 14 doubles with Fliss Pickard, the pair combining to beat the class 6 world No 6 Morgen Caillaud and class 8 former world and Paralympic champion and reigning European champion Thu Kamkasomphou from France in the semi-final and the hugely experienced German pair of class 6 world No 2 and Tokyo bronze medallist Stephanie Grebe and class 8 world No 3 Juliane Wolf in the final.
At the European Championships in 2023 Grace produced a superb performance to take silver in the women’s class 8 singles, beating the world champion and former Paralympic champion Thu Kamkasomphou in the semi-final before losing in the final to world No 1 Aida Dahlen from Norway.
Grace has continued to progress in 2024, taking silver in Kazakhstan but, having missed out on automatic qualification for the Paris Paralympic Games on her world ranking, she went out of the Paralympic World Qualification Tournament in Thailand at the group stages and is now focused on the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.
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Romain Simon pleased to win bronze in Spain
Pathway athlete Romain Simon combined with Austrian Henrik Andersson to take bronze in the men’s class 8 doubles at the ITTF World Para Future Costa Brava in Platja d’Aro today
Bronzes for Fliss Pickard and Grace Williams in Portugal
Fliss Pickard and Grace Williams took bronze in the women’s class 6 and women’s class 8 singles respectively at the ITTF World Para Future Costa Brava tournament in Platja d’Aro today.