Jamie Burdekin (born 10 December 1979 in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

) is an English

wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, a ...

player. He competed at the

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

, the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. He won the bronze medal together with

Peter Norfolk Peter Robert Norfolk OBE (born 13 December 1960) is a British wheelchair tennis player. Following a motorbike accident which left him paraplegic, he uses a wheelchair. He took up tennis and following a further spinal complication in 2000, he ...

in the Quad Doubles event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Norfolk and Burdekin also won the Quad Doubles event at the Japan Open as part of the

2012 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour The 2012 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour is the global elite professional wheelchair tennis circuit organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for the 2012 tennis season. The 2012 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour calendar comprises the Grand Sla ...

. He also won the bronze medal in the Quad Doubles event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, together with

Andrew Lapthorne Andrew David Lapthorne (born 11 October 1990) is a British wheelchair tennis player. He took up wheelchair tennis in 2005, and entered the quad division in 2008. He is active in both singles and doubles tournaments, and has 13 multiple grand sl ...

. In 2014 and 2015, Lapthorne and Burdekin also won the silver medals in the Quad Doubles event of the

Wheelchair Tennis Masters The Wheelchair Tennis Masters refers to a pair of end of year tennis events for wheelchair athletes held on an annual basis under the jurisdiction of the International Tennis Federation. The Wheelchair Tennis Masters for singles is an end-of-yea ...

. In 2017, Burdekin was wrongly suspended from competition for four years due to failing to comply with anti-doping testing; as he retired in 2016. https://www.doping.nl/media/kb/976/ITF%202005%20Jamie%20Burdekin%20(OS).pdf

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