Madeleine Scott (born 11 February 1993) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and has won silver medals at the

2015 IPC Swimming World Championships The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was the eighth IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom and took place from 13 to 19 July. Around 580 ...

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...

and the

2016 Rio Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 Sept ...

Personal

Scott was born on 11 February 1993 in

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. She has

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. In 2016, she was studying to be dental nurse.

Career

Scott began

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at the age of 13 for the South Lake Dolphins club in

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

. In 2010, she broke the world record S9 50m

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, beating the world record by three tenths of a second, touching in at a time of 32.26. She experienced success at the

2014 Commonwealth games The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...

achieving silver in the 100m breastroke SB9 classification. Scott also finished 4th in the 200m

individual medley Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes ( freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as ...

in the SM10 classification. Scott broke the world record S9 50m

beating the world record by three tenths of a second touching in at a time of 32.26. At the

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, 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. At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Scott won her first Paralympic silver medal in the Women's Relay Medley (34 Points) alongside

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and

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. SHe also competed in the following events but didn't progress to the finals: Women's 100m Butterfly S9, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB9, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM9. In 2015, she was training at the

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under head coach Yuriy Vdovychenko.

Recognition

*2009 – Wheelchair Sports Western Australia Junior Athlete of the Year

References

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