Torpoint’s David Wetherill took two medals at the ITTF Para Table Tennis European Championships in Denmark, the last major competition before next year’s Paralympic Games in Rio.
The 25-year-old took bronze in the men’s class six singles and then combined with GB team mate Paul Karabardak to win silver in the men’s class six team event.
Wetherill topped his group in the singles and reached the semi-finals where he faced a formidable opponent in Alvaro Valera, the reigning world champion and world number one from Spain. He lost the first two sets and although he battled his way back into the third set Valera used all his experience to close out the set 11-9 and the match 3-0 before going on to take the gold.
In the final of the team event Wetherill and Karabardak had to battle the home crowd as well as the might of former World, Paralympic and European champion Peter Rosenmeier and his team partner Michael Jensen. The Danish pair is an experienced doubles partnership and although Wetherill and Karabardak started well the Danes took the doubles 3-1 and clinched the gold when Rosenmeier beat Karabardak in the first singles 3-1.