Wheelchair Basketball European Championships Worcester 2015 Gold
European Championships 2017 Tenerife Silver European Championships 2019 Wroclaw Gold European Championships 2021 Madrid Silver European Championships2023 Utrecht Gold
Philip James Pratt (born 2 February 1994) is a British wheelchair basketball player and a member of British men's national wheelchair basketball team.
Early Life Born in South Wales U.K., Pratt acquired the medical condition transverse myelitis shortly before his third birthday and has been a wheelchair user since.
Playing many sports including wheelchair racing and sledge ice hockey, he was ranked third in the World under 18s in Wheelchair Tennis aged 16.
Career Pratt served as flag bearer for Great Britain during the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
In September 2013, he was selected for GB under 23 for the world championships in Turkey where GB placed fourth.
The same junior team won the 2014 European Junior title in Zaragoza, Spain, and later that year, Pratt made his World senior debut in Korea where GB finished seventh.
In September 2015, Pratt won gold with the men's team at the European championships held in Worcester.
In June 2016, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal in wheelchair basketball.
In 2017, He competed at the Europeans in Tenerife losing to Turkey in the final.
In the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, he served as team captain and helped Great Britain win their first gold medal in Wheelchair Basketball World Championship history. During the gold medal game against the United States he recorded 12 points and 12 assists.
In 2019 in Poland, he again captained the team GB to gold in The Europeans.
He made the decision to miss the 2020 Summer Paralympics after taking time off due to the death of his grandfather.
He competed at the 2021 Europeans for GB in Madrid and the team went undefeated to the final where they were supposed to face the Netherlands whom they had beaten in the group stages. Due to a COVID outbreak, the GB team withdrew from the final but The Netherlands controversially took to the court at the allotted time and claimed Gold to GB's silver.
At the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships, which was delayed until June 2023, he won a silver medal for Team GB.
In 2023, he again captained the GB men's team in The European Championships in the Netherlands, where the team went unbeaten, winning the semi-final and final by more than 20 points to claim Gold.
He represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal in wheelchair basketball. In September 2026, he competed at the 2026 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and won a bronze medal.
Recognised as one of the best passing and assisting point guards to have played the game, he regularly tops the assists rankings in tournaments and leagues he plays in.
Most recently, whilst representing Team GB, he finished as leading assist provider in the 2026 IWBF World Championships in Ottawa Canada, registering 88 assists (20 more than the second placed athlete)
Pratt won player of the year in 2024/25 season of the Division de Honor Spanish professional league, widely recognised as the premier club league in Professional Wheelchair Basketball.
Pratt joined the reigning European Club Champions (Amiab Albacete) and subsequently helped them win a further three consecutive European Champions Cups, only losing one European game in four seasons and becoming the only Team to achieve four consecutive Cup wins in a row to date.
At the end of the 2025/26 season, Pratt announced he was leaving Amiab Albacete in a surprise move to Italian Team Asinara Waves.
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