GBWR would like to congratulate Ayaz Bhuta whom, at the Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2016, was presented with the Faezeh Hashemi Award for Excellence in Sport by Baroness Manzoor, CBE of Knightsbridge.
Despite being born with a crippling disability that has left him wheelchair bound, Ayaz Bhuta, has overcome this to become one of the world’s best wheelchair rugby players and Paralympic athlete. He works as a customer service adviser for a bank and was selected to play for Great Britain at the tri-nations tournament in Australia in 2010. He earned a European Bronze Medal and trains regularly with both club and country all around the UK and abroad. He has competed in major tournaments all over the world such as Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland and has picked up many individual awards for best player in position. He has been on the World Class Performance Programme for two years and is training for the Rio 2016 Paralympics. In 2015, the Daily Telegraph dubbed Ayaz as the ‘Jonah Lomu of wheelchair rugby’.
