Madeleine Scott
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| Nationality |
 Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 February 1993 Perth, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | S9, SB9, SM9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | South Lake | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Yuriy Vdovychenko | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Madeleine Scott (born 11 December 1993) is a multi-class swimmer and won a silver medals at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships and 2014 Commonwealth Games.She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
Personal
Scott was born on 11 February 1993 in Perth, Western Australia.[2] He has erb's palsy.[3] In 2016, she is studying to be dental nurse.
Career
Scott began swimming at the age of 13 for the South Lake Dolphins club in Perth.[4] In 2010, Scott broke the world record S9 50m butterfly beating the world record by three tenths of a second touching in at a time of 32.26.[5] She experienced success at the 2014 Commonwealth games achieving silver in the 100m breastroke SB9 classification. Scott also finished 4th in the 200IM in the SM10 classification. Scott broke the world record S9 50m butterfly beating the world record by three tenths of a second touching in at a time of 32.26.[5]
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, she won a silver medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 Points, finished fourth in the Women's 100m Breaststroke SB9 and sixth in the 100m Butterfly S9 and 200m Individual Medley SM9.[6]
In 2015, she is training at the Australian Institute of Sport under head coach Yuriy Vdovychenko.[4]
Recognition
- 2009 - Wheelchair Sports Western Australia Junior Athlete of the Year [6]
References
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ "Madeleine Scott". Swimming Australia. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Madeleine Scott". Australian Paralymoic Committee. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- 1 2 "Biography". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- 1 2 "Scott smashes world record". ASCTA. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- 1 2 "Madeleine Scott". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
External links
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