Michelle Scutt

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| name = Michelle Scutt
née Probert

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| nationality = British

| sport = Athletics

| event = 400m

| club = Sale Harriers

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|06|17}}

| birth_place = Liverpool, England

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Michelle Scutt, née Probert (born 17 June 1960) is a female former British Olympic athlete. Competing for Wales at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, behind Australia's Raelene Boyle.

Early life

Scutt is from CulchethLiverpool Echo Thursday 11 July 1974, page 31 and attended Culcheth High School.

Liverpool Echo Thursday 7 July 1977, page 27

Athletics career

Probert became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19800817/467/0027 |title=Athletics |work=Sunday Express |date=17 August 1980 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=14 March 2025}}

Probert married fellow international athlete Steve Scutt on 18 October 1980 in Culcheth and competed under her married name thereafter.{{cite news|title=Athletics News - 11 August 1980|year=1980|newspaper=Liverpool Echo}}{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|title=Marriages Dec 1980 Probert-Scutt|website=Free BMD}}Daily Mirror Tuesday 22 April 1980, page 30 She moved to Loughborough where her husband worked at the university.

Scutt won a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, running the third leg of the 4 × 400 m relay. She was Welsh champion at 100m (1978–1982), 200m (1978, 1980–1982) and 400m (1979 and 1984).

Scutt regained the WAAA 400 metres title at the 1982 WAAA Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=14 March 2025 }}

She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 400m{{Cite news|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/athletics/seren-bundy-davies-only-welsh-11607227|title=Seren Bundy-Davies only Welsh athlete in GB squad for Rio 2016 Olympics|last=Griffiths|first=Gareth|date=2016-07-13|work=walesonline|access-date=2017-12-14}} reaching the semi-final round,{{Cite web|url=http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/3578833.BEIJING_2008__Been_there_and_done_it_/|title=BEIJING 2008: Been there and done it!|last=Parsons|first=Mike|date=8 August 2008|website=Warrington Guardian|language=en|access-date=2017-12-14}} and in the 4 × 400 m relay reaching the final and finishing in fourth place. Her personal best time in the 400m is 50.63, which she ran in Cwmbran in 1982, at the time a British record and still the Welsh record. In addition to her silver medal for 400 metres at the 1982 Commonwealth Games she also competed in the 200 metres and 4x400 metres relay.{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40455|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}