Career
He made his debut at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg as a swimmer. He also competed in swimming and wheelchair basketball at the same Games and captained the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1980 Summer Paralympics. After that he coached the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics.
In 2001 he took up wheelchair curling after trying the sport at his local rink at Braehead.
He was the skip for the British team in Wheelchair curling at the 2010 Winter Paralympics and carried the British flag in the opening ceremony. His disability was caused by poliomyelitis, which he contracted in 1947.