Heath Davidson
2016 Australian Paralympic Team Portrait
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 Australia
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| Born | 9 May 1987 | ||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 29 | ||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 8 | ||||||||||||
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Heath Arthur Davidson OAM (born 9 May 1987) is an Australian quad wheelchair tennis player. He represented Australia in at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where he teamed up with Dylan Alcott to win the Men's Quad Doubles gold medal.
Davidson was born on 9 May 1987. He contracted the virus transverse myelitis at the age of five months and this led to paraplegia. He attended Parkdale Secondary College in Melbourne.
He started playing wheelchair tennis at the age of 14. In 2001, At the Australian Disabled Games in Queensland he won a bronze medal in wheelchair tennis and two silver medals for table tennis. After ten years he retired from the sport.
After he returned to wheelchair tennis, he teamed with Dylan Alcott to win the prestigious BNP Paribas World Team Cup held in Tokyo, Japan in May 2016. They upset Great Britain in the final. Davidson and Alcott won the Men's Quad Doubles gold medal at the Rio Paralympics. They defeated the reigning champions David Wagner and Nick Taylor in the gold medal match 4–6, 6–4, 7–5. In the Men's Quad Singles, Davidson lost to Andy Lapthorne (GBR) 0-2 (1-6, 2-6) in the quarter-finals.
He won the Variety Australia Young Sports Achievers Award in 2003 with Dylan Alcott. In 2016, he shared Tennis Australia's Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability with doubles partner Dylan Alcott. He was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia in 2017.
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