Madeleine Scott
{{Short description|Australian Paralympic swimmer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2014}}
{{Infobox swimmer
| name = Madeleine Scott
| image = XXXX15 - Madeline Scott - 3b - 2016 Team processing.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait
| nationality = {{AUS}}
| club = South Lake
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|02|11}}
| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia
| coach = Yuriy Vdovychenko
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Women's paralympic swimming}}
{{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2016 Rio de Janeiro|4 x 100 m medley}}
{{MedalCompetition|IPC Swimming World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2015 Glasgow|4 x 100 m medley}}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 Glasgow|100 m breastroke SB9}}
{{MedalBronze|2018 Gold Coast|100 m breastroke SB8}}
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}}
Madeleine Scott (born 11 February 1993) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and has won silver medals at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2016 Rio Paralympics.{{cite web|title=Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement|url=http://www.swimming.org.au/NewsCentral/Swimming-Australia-Paralympic-Squad-Announcement.aspx|website=Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113144330/http://www.swimming.org.au/NewsCentral/Swimming-Australia-Paralympic-Squad-Announcement.aspx|archive-date=13 November 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
Personal
Scott was born on 11 February 1993 in Perth, Western Australia.{{cite web|title=Madeleine Scott|url=http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=34854|publisher=Swimming Australia|access-date=20 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906205554/http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=34854|archive-date=6 September 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} She has erb's palsy.{{cite web|title=Madeleine Scott|url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/athlete/madeleine-scott/|website=Australian Paralymoic Committee|access-date=16 April 2016|archive-date=29 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329234409/https://www.paralympic.org.au/athlete/madeleine-scott/|url-status=live}} In 2016, she was studying to be dental nurse.
Career
Scott began swimming at the age of 13 for the South Lake Dolphins club in Perth. In 2010, she 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.{{cite web|title=Scott smashes world record|url=https://sitedesq.imgstg.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_main&NewsID=12587&OrgID=3429|publisher=ASCTA|access-date=20 August 2015|archive-date=9 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009184138/https://sitedesq.imgstg.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_main&NewsID=12587&OrgID=3429#.VdWS1-volFJ|url-status=usurped}}
She experienced success at the 2014 Commonwealth games achieving silver in the 100m breastroke SB9 classification. Scott also finished 4th in the 200m individual medley 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.
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.{{cite web|title=Madeleine Scott|url=http://www.paralympic.org/athletes/biographies|website=International Paralympic Committee website|access-date=24 August 2015|archive-date=21 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121153910/https://www.paralympic.org/athletes/biographies|url-status=live}}
At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Scott won her first Paralympic silver medal in the Women's {{nowrap|4 × 100 m}} Relay Medley (34 Points) alongside Ellie Cole, Maddison Elliott and Lakeisha Patterson.{{cite web|title=Madeleine Scott|url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athlete/madeleine-scott|website=Rio Paralympics Official site|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923002201/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athlete/madeleine-scott|url-status=live}} 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 Australian Institute of Sport under head coach Yuriy Vdovychenko.{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/swimming/1030743/m_scott.html|publisher=Glasgow 2014|access-date=20 August 2015|archive-date=7 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607012254/http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/swimming/1030743/m_scott.html|url-status=live}}
Recognition
References
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External links
- {{IPC athlete|madeleine-scott|old_id=881771}}
- {{Paralympics Australia|madeleine-scott}}
- {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404005948/http://www.swimming.org.au/Home/AustralianDolphins/AthleteProfile.aspx?AthleteID=64 |date=4 April 2017 |title=Madeleine Scott at Swimming Australia}}
{{2016 Australian Paralympic Team}}
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Category:Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia
Category:Sportswomen from Western Australia
Category:Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:S9-classified para swimmers
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in swimming
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming
Category:Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
Category:Paralympic medalists in swimming
Category:Australian female breaststroke swimmers
Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen