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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]
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]
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] In June 2016 Davies was notified that she was no longer eligible to perform as a Para-sport swimmer as her impairment was now not serious enough. [6]