David Gould (basketball)
David Gould's 2000 Australian Paralympic team portrait
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19 April 1965 Adelaide |
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David Ian Gould, OAM (born 19 April 1965) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and coach.
Gould was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Paralympics. He was the top point scorer at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, and won a gold medal as part of the winning 1996 team, for which he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. He retired after the 2002 World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, but subsequently became assistant coach of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 London Paralympics, where they won silver.
David Ian Gould was born in Adelaide on 19 April 1965. He is the youngest of three children, with an older brother and sister. He attended Croydon Park Primary School and Croydon High School in Adelaide. In July 1977, he became a paraplegic due to a near-fatal shooting accident.
Gould came from a sporting family; his sister played netball and his brother played basketball. He started playing basketball at the age of seven, and also played cricket for his school. He was selected for the South Australian Under 12 basketball team when he was eleven, and played against Andrew Gaze in a series against Victoria. After his accident, he began coaching junior basketball.
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