Joe Scott (walker)

{{Short description|New Zealand athlete (1860–1908)}}

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Joseph Scott (3 June 1860 – 9 February 1908) was a New Zealand race walker from Dunedin. He became New Zealand's first world champion athlete and world record holder in 1888.

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  • {{DNZB|last=Thomson|first=Jane|id=2S8|title=Scott, Joseph 1860–1908|accessdate=9 April 2011}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090517001426/http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/index.pasp New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame]

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Category:New Zealand male race walkers

Category:Athletes from Dunedin

Category:1860 births

Category:1908 deaths

Category:Burials at Dunedin Northern Cemetery

Category:19th-century New Zealand sportsmen