Erraid Davies
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Nationality | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dundee, Scotland |
9 February 2001 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Delting Dolphins swimming club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Erraid Davies (born 9 February 2001 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish swimmer from Skeld[1] in Shetland. In 2014 at the age of 13 she became the youngest person to compete for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games and achieved a bronze medal in the SB9 category for 100m breaststroke.[2] Her parents are Joyce and David Davies, and she has two older sisters.[3]
Disability
Davies was diagnosed with Perthes disease, a hip problem,[4][1] at the age of four[2] and was in a wheelchair for another four years.[1]
Swimming
Since being diagnosed and advised not to do any weight-bearing exercise she took up swimming so she could stay fit.[1] She swam her first mile before the age of six.
Davies is a member of the Delting Dolphins swimming club[4] based in Brae, which claims to be "the most northerly active swimming club in the UK".[5] Davies trains in the afternoons and evenings in a 16.66m pool, which is a third of the length of the Olympic-sized pool in which she won her bronze medal.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Glasgow 2014: Erraid Davies's parents praise 'amazing daughter'".(28 July 2014) BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ↑ "Rio beckons after Erraid's Glasgow bronze". Shetland News. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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