Commonwealth Games: Jack Hunter-Spivey wins Para-table tennis gold
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'Fantastic scenes!' - Jack Hunter-Spivey wins men's singles table tennis gold
2022 Commonwealth Games |
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Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to 8 August |
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England's Jack Hunter-Spivey beat Nigeria's Nasiru Sule 3-1 to claim Para-table tennis gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Hunter-Spivey, who took Paralympic bronze at Tokyo 2020, won 11-4 9-11 11-6 11-7 in the Para class 3-5 final.
"When I was a kid I wanted to be the next Steven Gerrard and to be at Anfield, but this is my Anfield and the crowd were the 12th man," he said.
"It is so surreal and I want to do it all again."
Sule, 56, beat 27-year-old Hunter-Spivey in the group stage, but the home favourite triumphed in front of a raucous crowd at the National Exhibition Centre which included several team-mates.
He earned England's second medal of the Games after the men won team bronze on Tuesday.
Felicity Pickard missed out on bronze in the women's singles class as she lost to Nigeria's Faith Obazuaye, while two-time Commonwealth champion Sue Bailey suffered the same fate against India's Sonalben Patel in the 3-5 class.