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 ]
References
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1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Liverpool
English male tennis players
British wheelchair tennis players
Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Great Britain
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis
Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Doping cases in tennis
English sportspeople in doping cases
Tennis people from Merseyside
21st-century English people
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