Alexa Scott

{{short description|Canadian long track speed skater}}

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{{Medal|Competition|Four Continents Speed Skating Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2020 Milwaukee|Team pursuit}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Junior Speed Skating Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2020 Tomaszów Mazowiecki|Overall}}

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Alexa Scott (born 3 April 2001) is a Canadian long track speed skater.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/alexa-scott/|title=Alexa Scott|website=www.olympic.ca/|publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|access-date=17 January 2022}}

Career

At the 2020 World Junior Speed Skating Championships, Scott won the bronze medal in the overall event, despite suffering from food poisoning.{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Kelly|date=16 February 2020|title=Manitoba speedskater Alexa Scott brings home Canada’s 1st world junior medal in 12 years|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6599300/manitoba-speedskater-alexa-scott-world-junior-medal/|work=Global News|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite news|last=Izri|first=Touria|date=28 April 2020|title=Speed skater Alexa Scott won't be slowed down by pandemic|url=https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/speed-skater-alexa-scott-won-t-be-slowed-down-by-pandemic-1.4915191|work=CTV News|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=17 January 2022}}

Scott's first senior competition came in 2020, when she won a silver in the women's team pursuit at the 2020 Four Continents Speed Skating Championships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In January 2022, Scott was named to her first Olympic team, where she will contest the 1000 m and team pursuit events.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/2022/01/17/16-long-track-speed-skaters-nominated-to-team-canada-for-beijing-2022/|title=16 long track speed skaters nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022|last=Nichols|first=Paula|date=17 January 2022|website=www.olympic.ca/|publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite news|date=17 January 2022|title=Bloemen, Dubreuil leads Canada’s long-track speedskaters into Beijing|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2022/01/17/bloemen-dubreuil-leads-canadas-long-track-speedskaters-into-beijing.html|work=Canadian Press|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/speed-skating/canada-long-track-team-speed-skating-beijng-olympics-1.6317853|title=Speed skating Olympians Blondin, Dubreuil front Canada's long track team for Beijing|date=17 January 2022|website=www.cbc.ca/|publisher=CBC Sports|access-date=17 January 2022}}

Personal records

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{{PersonalRecordsSport|Speed skating}}

{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|500 m|39.31|13 October 2021|Olympic Oval, Calgary|}}

{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|1000 m|1:15.29|4 December 2021|Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City|}}

{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|1500 m|1:55.34|5 December 2021|Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City|}}

{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|3000 m|4:08.47|3 December 2021|Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City|}}

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References