Background
Bayley was born on 17 January 1988 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. He was born with arthrogryposis which affects all four of his limbs.
Bayley was born on 17 January 1988 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. He was born with arthrogryposis which affects all four of his limbs.
At the age of 12 he joined the Byng Hall Table Tennis Club in Tunbridge Wells and went on to represent Kent"s able bodied men"s team From the age of 17 he has lived and trained at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where he was knocked out of the table tennis C7 singles in the preliminary round after defeats against Germany"s Jochen Wollmert and Ukraine"s Mykhaylo Popov and a single victory against Shumel Shur of Israel.
He also competed in the C6-8 team event along with Paul Karabardak and David Wetherill.
They were eliminated at the quarterfinal stage. Bayley has been named as one of thirteen players in the table tennis squad for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
The table tennis events are scheduled to be held at ExCeL London from Thursday 30 August to Saturday 8 September.