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}} Dylan Martin Alcott, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketballer, wheelchair tennis player and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australian "Rollers" wheelchair basketball team and a crucial component in the Rollers gold medal win at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. At the age of 17 he became the youngest ever gold medal winner for wheelchair basketball, and was the youngest to compete in the Wheelchair Basketball competition. 〔 In 2014, he returned to wheelchair tennis with the aiming of participating at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. 〔 == Early life == Alcott was born in Melbourne to parents Martin and Resie. He has an older brother Zack. 〔 He was born with a tumor wrapped around his spinal cord which was operated on during the first few weeks of his life. The tumor was successfully cut out, however it left Alcott a paraplegic, leaving him wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life. Alcott attended Brighton Grammar School from grade 6, and quickly developed a love for sport, and competed for Victoria in swimming, and Australia for wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. Alcott graduated Brighton Grammar school in 2008 as a prefect, and is now a member of their school Hall of Fame.〔 Alcott's first sport of choice was wheelchair tennis, where he represented Australia on numerous occasions, reaching a career high ranking of 100 in the world (4th in the world under-18s at the age of 16). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dylan Alcott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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