Adam James Scholefield (born 24 May 1985) is a researcher and

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water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

player. He graduated from

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

with a degree in electrical engineering and a

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in image processing. He is tall and weighs . He is coached by Cristian Iordache, Petik Attila and Norman Leighton. Scholefield competed for

Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation and the team of selected athletes was o ...

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in the men's tournament at the

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. It was the first time the

Great Britain men's national water polo team The Great Britain men's national water polo team is the representative for Great Britain in international men's water polo. The team has participated in eleven tournaments at the Summer Olympics, being the dominant team in the sport in the early ...

appeared at an Olympics since the 1956 Games held in

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, Australia. In 2014, he won a gold medal at the

Commonwealth Water Polo Championships The Commonwealth Water Polo Championships are held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games, although they are no longer included in the Commonwealth Games programme. They are in a round-robin tournament, round robin format. Water polo and the ...

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. Since June 2015, and as of March 2017, Scholefield is working, with Prof. Martin Vetterli, as a postdoctoral researcher at the

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution E ...

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* 1985 births English male water polo players British male water polo players Living people Sportspeople from Leeds Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo players for Great Britain Alumni of Imperial College London 21st-century English sportsmen {{UK-waterpolo-bio-stub