Credit: Invictus Games
A British army veteran got his “gold medal moment” at the Invictus Games in Canada when he proposed to his girlfriend.
James Cairns, from Holmfirth in Yorkshire, asked his girlfriend of four years Hannah Wild to marry him at the opening of the Team UK Wheelchair Basketball match in Vancouver on Sunday, the Royal British Legion said.
James, 35, celebrated the moment with his teammates, family, friends and he and Hannah’s two-year-old son.
Since losing his leg to a sniper bullet in Afghanistan, James has been training for the Invictus Games and now competes in three sports: biathlon, swimming and wheelchair basketball.