Erraid Davies

Erraid Davies
Personal information
Nationality  Scotland
Born 9 February 2001
Dundee, Scotland
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Delting Dolphins swimming club

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brown, Craig (29 July 2014). "Glasgow 2014: Erraid Davies the toast of Scotland". The Scotsman. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Glasgow 2014: Erraid Davies's parents praise 'amazing daughter'".(28 July 2014) BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rio beckons after Erraid's Glasgow bronze". Shetland News. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hannah Miley and Erraid Davies: a champion and a cherub now on the same wavelength". heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "About us". Delting Dolphins Swimming Club. Retrieved 29 July 2014.