Leading Sports Marketing Company TLA Worldwide Appointed

GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) is excited to announce the appointment of leading sports marketing company TLA Worldwide.  As the dynamic, inclusive and exhilarating Paralympic sport prepares for Tokyo, TLA’s full-service brief focuses on the delivery of new commercial partners, supporting GBWR’s nationwide community of clubs, its growing youth programme, and its development of new disciplines of the sport, further building its profile through the creation of innovative new content and high-prof...
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Squad Selected for Tokyo 2020

Congratulations to the twelve athletes who have been selected to represent GB at wheelchair rugby at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. It has been a very long journey and there is still the final straight - the most important one - yet to complete. But it is also congratulations to the coaches, staff, families, supporters, fundraisers, and sponsors who are the team behind the team and who have got us to this place. On behalf of the athletes I am enormously grateful to you all. ...
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Jason Brisbane Announced as CEO

Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) has today announced the appointment of Jason Brisbane as Chief Executive Officer, who will take over the post from David Pond this summer. The 38-year-old brings with him extensive experience across high performance and grassroots sport, most recently as Head of Community and Grassroots Development for NFL International in London. Brisbane is a former professional linebacker who has played American Football for the San Diego Chargers (...
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Dr Barry Mason to be Head of Performance Team

Dr Barry Mason is to head up GB Wheelchair Rugby’s performance and sport’s medicine team. Currently a senior research associate in Sports Performance at the internationally acclaimed Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport at Loughbourough University, Barry is no stranger to the sport having worked alongside GBWR on a number of projects aimed at maximising the performance of wheelchair rugby athletes, coaches and practitioners. Barry was the outstanding choice from a long list of very exp...
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GBWR Renews Partnership with RMA Sport

GB Wheelchair Rugby announces renewal of its partnership with RMA Sport. David Pond, Chief Executive of GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) announced this morning that the sport is renewing its partnership with RMA Sport, the sport wheelchair manufacturer based in Bridgend, Wales. RMA Sport first partnered with GBWR following the London 2012 Paralympic Games when it teamed up with the sport to design and manufacture affordable sports wheelchairs to support GBWR’s vision to grow the ...
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Return to Play Update

Return to Play Resources and updates We are pleased to let you know that clubs in England who have been signed off for Return to Play can now start back training at the step that they have been signed off at (either Step 1 or 2) subject to home nations guidance. T...
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