He made a name for himself playing wheelchair basketball for Australia and won Paralympic gold in 2008 and silver in 2012.
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But Dylan Alcott has his eyes set on winning a different sort of medal in Rio later this year – wheelchair tennis gold.
Alcott swapped the basketball for a racquet two years ago. He has already scaled the rankings to No.1 in the world and is maintaining a 25-match winning streak.
But Alcott said his previous accomplishments will be of little condolence if he fails to leave Rio without gold around his neck.
"We're not going there to make up the numbers. I've been thinking about that medal for a while," Alcott said.
Alcott was born with a tumour wrapped around his spinal cord which following surgery left him paraplegic and with nerve damage in his hands.
"[The tumour] was cut out when I was a couple of days' old. So it left me paraplegic and I acquired nerve damage in one of my hands," Alcott said.
He was introduced to wheelchair tennis as a youngster and soon fell in love with the sport.
"I started when I was about 11 and I absolutely loved it." he said.
But in order to pursue his dreams of winning a gold medal for Australia, Alcott took a significant break from tennis.
"I had eight years off actually and won a gold medal playing wheelchair basketball in the 2008 Paralympics."
Despite Alcott winning a silver medal four years later it wasn't long before he began to tire of the sport, retiring from basketball in 2014.
Alcott then made his return to tennis as a way to maintain his fitness – and hasn't looked back.
"Basketball became a little bit of a job. I wasn't enjoying it as much as I used to, so I went to tennis just to get a bit of fitness ... I absolutely loved it and from then on I haven't really looked back," he said.
While Alcott struggled at the start, his natural skills and hard work allowed him to rise through the ranks.
"I was pretty poor when I started but did a lot of hard work and I had a lot of good chair skills ... playing basketball, it's a pretty similar chair set-up so that really helped me out."
Alcott said he feels little pressure despite the Games only being two months away.
"All I want to do is win that gold medal. I can't wait to be over there and compete. I'm very lucky to do what I do and I don't see there's any pressure at being No.1 in the world … all I want to do is win gold," he said.
The Paralympic Games will take place in Rio from September 7 to 18.