Robyn Love

Robyn Love (born 28 August 1990) is a 3.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2016 Paralympic Games and 2024 Paralympic Games, and Scotland at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Biography Robyn Love was born in Ayr, Scotland, on 28 August 1990. She was born with arthrogryposis, a rare condition in which the muscles are shortened, due to the wrapping of the umbilical cord around her legs. As a result, her right leg is shorter than her left, and she is missing muscles in both legs. At school, she played football and tennis, but refused to participate in athletics because she knew her disability prevented her from running as fast as the other kids. During her 2008 gap year before university, surgeons at Glasgow Royal Infirmary attempted to lengthen her leg by breaking it and using plaster and pins to keep it straight. The pins had to be tightened daily, which was excruciatingly painful. They also inserted a plate in her femur that helped her walk better, but her right leg remained shorter, and she still walked with a limp. In 2009, she entered Edinburgh Napier University, where she studied biomedical sciences. One of the first things she did was to find sports organisations, and she started playing basketball. In October 2014, she attended a national team training camp, The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.

Achievements 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England) 2016: Fourth at the 2016 Paralympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 2017: Bronze at the European Championships (Tenerife, Spain) 2018: Silver at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Hamburg, Germany) 2024: Fifth at the 2024 Paralympics (Paris, France)

Personal life Love is openly lesbian. She is engaged to fellow wheelchair basketball player Laurie Williams. They have a child together.