Sonia Waddell
{{Short description|New Zealand athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2016}}
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| birth_name = Sonia Scown
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|2|19|df=y}}{{cite web |title=Sonia Waddell-Scown |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/sonia-waddell-scown-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224011856/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/search/athlete_search.cgi?search=sonia+waddell+scown+ |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 February 2020 |publisher=sports-reference.com |access-date=12 February 2010}}
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| spouse = {{marriage |Rob Waddell |1998}}
| relatives=Alistair Scown (father)
Rebecca Scown (cousin)
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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2001 Lucerne|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalSport | Women's track cycling}}
{{MedalCompetition|Para-cycling World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2011 Montichiari|Time trial}}
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Sonia Waddell (née Scown; born 19 February 1973) is a New Zealand athlete. She represented her country at a World Junior Championship in hurdles before becoming a rower, in which sport she was twice an Olympic competitor and where she won silver at a World Rowing Championship. She later competed as a cyclist and won medals at a UCI Para-cycling Track World Championship as a sighted guide.
Private life
Waddell is the daughter of former All Black Alistair Scown and sister of rugby player Hayden Scown. In 1998,{{cite news |author= |title=Top Kiwi marriages made in sport |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/75844046/Top-Kiwi-marriages-made-in-sport | work=Stuff.co.nz |date=13 January 2016 |access-date=2 January 2017}} she married fellow rower Rob Waddell.{{cite news |title=Rowing's golden couple dream of life off water |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=154248 |date=6 October 2000 | work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 February 2010}}{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Lib |title=Waddell's in-laws living Cup challenge |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/9177504/Waddells-in-laws-living-Cup-challenge |access-date=26 September 2015 |work=Waikato Times |date=18 September 2013}} Rower Rebecca Scown is her cousin.{{cite web |title=Rebecca Scown |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/23297/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=14 December 2016}}
Sports career
=Athletics=
Waddell represented New Zealand in the 400 m hurdles at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.{{cite news |title=NZ's queen of rowing working at full stretch |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=14735 |date=25 September 1999 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 February 2010}}
=Rowing=
She first represented her country in rowing at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she came ninth in the women's quadruple sculls.{{cite web |title=(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1995-world-championships/womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}} From 1997 onwards, she competed in the single sculls, and at the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, and 1999, she placed tenth, tenth, and fifth, respectively.{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1997-world-championships/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}}{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1998-world-championships/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}}{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1999-world-championships/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}} At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she continued to compete in the single sculls, placing sixth and fifth, respectively.{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2000-olympic-games/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}}{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2004-olympic-games/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}}
She won a silver medal in the 2001 World Rowing Championships in the quadruple sculls,{{cite news |title=Rowing: Quadruple sculls continue silver championships |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=210958 |date=27 August 2001| work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 February 2010}} alongside Paula Twining and twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell.{{cite web |title=(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2001-world-championships/womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}} In the 2003 World Rowing Championships, she competed in the single sculls and came seventh.{{cite web |title=(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2003-world-championships/womens-single-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=4 September 2016}}
=Cycling=
In 2011, she won the New Zealand Cycling Time Trial Championship.{{cite news | url= http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/new-zealand-road-championships-2011-cn/elite-women-time-trial/results | title=Waddell takes the title | access-date=4 September 2016 | date=7 January 2011 | work=Cyclingnews.com}}
At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships she took one gold and one bronze as a pilot, with teammate Jayne Parsons.{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/3882594/Team-building-all-about-blind-faith |title=Team-building all about blind faith |author=Kilgallon, Steve |date=4 July 2010 |work=The Sunday Star-Times |access-date=12 November 2011}}
References
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{{2000 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{2004 New Zealand Olympic team}}
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Category:New Zealand female cyclists
Category:New Zealand female rowers
Category:New Zealand female sprinters
Category:Olympic rowers for New Zealand
Category:Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Hāwera
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand