James Roberts (British athlete)

James Roberts (born 11 May 1986 in Mons, Belgium) is a wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic athlete based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales.

He competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, finishing fifth in the trunk and arm classification in adaptive rowing.

More recently he has begun playing wheelchair basketball for local side Rhyl Raptors.

In 2021, Roberts was part of the Great Britain team that took wheelchair rugby gold at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

[8] He was subsequently appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to wheelchair rugby.