England's Wheelchair Basketball team revealed in Aylesbury ahead of Commonwealth Games
18 year old Abderrahim Taghrest from Hertfordshire will be competing!
Last updated 13th Jul 2022
The Wheelchair Basketball team representing Team England for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has been unveiled in Aylesbury!
Last Friday (8/7) the athletes met up at the Stoke Mandeville stadium for pre-competition training.
The whole team was excited to be representing the country in the games with the competition slogan “Bring It Home”
Abderrahim Taghrest
We caught up with 18 year-old Abderrahim Taghrest from Hertfordshire who will be representing Team England.
This will be his first time competing in the Commonwealth games! He told Greatest Hits Radio he is “excited”, “nervous” and wants to “do Hertfordshire proud.”
Abderrahim started playing wheelchair basketball in 2012 when he was 8 years old. He was inspired to get into sport after watching the Paralympics whilst in hospital. The hospital had a wheelchair basketball club next door, and the rest is history!
His physiotherapist took him along to the club where he fell in love with the sport - and a few months later he started training!
Abderrahim tells us he has “always wanted to compete in a big game” but never expected it to be the “massive” Commonwealth Games.
The selection process consisted of a series of camps where 4 people were selected to compete, Adberrahim being one of the chosen competitors.
He told us he hopes to trail again at the next Commonwealth games in four years’ time and, in the future, his aim is to compete in the Paralympic games!