A FORMER Chepstow schoolboy became the seventh Welsh member of Paralympics GB to win a medal in Rio this week.

Phil Pratt helped Paralympics GB secure an 86-76 overtime win against Turkey in the bronze medal match after it was tied 65-65 after normal time.

The 22-year-old was also part of the side that lost to Spain in the semi-final, but made a telling contribution to the eventual win, despite Turkey taking a two point lead with just 25 seconds remaining. Paralympics GB quickly slipped to a six-point deficit before a storming comeback, including a long-range three pointer from Terry Bywater, decisively switched momentum in overtime.

Ian Sagar weighed in with 20 points while Abdi Jama, Pratt and Gaz Choudhry all made contributions in a strong all-around performance by the 12-strong squad. Sagar praised his team-mate and admitted he had an extra special motivation for the win.

The 34-year-old said: “My daughter sent me a message this morning, saying she’d been at school and they’d been talking about the Paralympics.

“They were showing a picture of me and she said ‘that’s my dad’, she immediately thought she was famous and everyone wants to be her friend, and she told me that I had to go and win the medal now.”

And the win was extra special for seven-time Paralympian Simon Munn as the 48-year old added to his collection of two bronzes and a silver dating back to the 1992 Games in Barcelona.

He said: “It’s just a fantastic feeling to end my career with a bronze medal. It could have been so much better, but the fact is that we’re third in the world and we go home with a bronze medal.

“I think four Paralympics now out of my seven we’ve medalled, that’s fantastic and I owe it all to these guys, they did an awesome job.

“The youngsters who have come in and played at this level is just phenomenal. I remember my first Paralympics and it was nothing like this.”