Mark Davies (athlete)

Mark Hedley Davies[1] (30 June 1960 – 9 January 2011)[2][3] was an Australian Paralympic athlete.

[2][4] He had a degenerative eye condition that caused tunnel vision; he found it more difficult to compete in able-bodied sports as he got older, and by 2000, he had lost all of his sight.

[4][5] He began his athletic career before the establishment of the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, so he had to organise all his training and transport independently.

[5][7] He also competed in athletics without winning any medals at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Games.

[7] He worked as an athletics coach, and assisted other blind sportspeople in the Northern Territory.