Full name Duncan W Scott Name Duncan Scott Sport Swimming | Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) National team United Kingdom Role Swimmer | |
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Born 6 May 1997 (age 26) ( 1997-05-06 ) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Weight 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) Strokes Butterfly, Freestyle, Medley Profiles | ||
British record duncan scott british champion men s 100m freestyle
Duncan Scott (born 6 May 1997) is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. He has won two golds as part of a relay team at the World Championships, as well as silvers at the World Championships and Olympics in relay.
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- British record duncan scott british champion men s 100m freestyle
- Swimming emerging athlete of the year duncan scott
- Early life
- Career
- References
He won three gold medals in the (100 m and 200 m freestyle, and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay) at the 2015 European Games. In doing so, he was the most successful British athlete at the European Games. A month later, he formed part of the Great Britain squad that won the gold medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in the men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay as the 4th leg swimmer in the heat, before being replaced for the final. In 2016, he was a member of the Great Britain team that won silver in the same event at the Olympic Games, swimming both heats and finals, before winning the same medal swimming the anchor freestyle leg for Great Britain in the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay. The same team also won the 4 x 100 metre medley relay silver in the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.
Swimming emerging athlete of the year duncan scott
Early life
Duncan grew up in Alloa, moving to Strathallan School on a sport scholarship at the beginning of secondary. He trained daily throughout his high school years and this dedication is clear to see. Swimming runs in the family as his older sister Alex Scott is the Woman's swimming captain at the University of Dundee and the incoming secretary on the Sports Union Exec.
Career
Scott came to public attention in 2013 when he won eight gold medals at the 2013 Scottish Age Group Championships in Edinburgh. Later that year he competed at the 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival taking gold in the 200 m medley, silvers in the (400 m medley, 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle) and bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle.
In July 2014, at the 2014 European Junior Championships, Scott won a gold medal in the (200 m individual medley, 4 × 100 m freestyle) and bronze in the 4 × 200 m freestyle. A few weeks later he won a silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He then competed at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing taking gold in the 4 × 100 m freestyle (with Luke Greenbank, Miles Munro, and Martyn Walton).
At the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku (a junior event for swimmers), he won three gold medals in the (100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay) and three silver medals in the 4 × 200 m freestyle, 4 × 100 m mixed freestyle, and 4 × 100 m medley (with Greenbank, Charlie Attwood, and Walton).
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, he won a silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay with Stephen Milne, James Guy, and Dan Wallace. He also won another silver in the 4x100m medley relay with Chris Walker-Hebborn, James Guy and Adam Peaty. He also placed 4th in the final of the individual men's 100 metres freestyle.
In the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. He won gold in the 4x200m freestyle with James Guy, Stephen Milne and Nick Grainger in a time of seven minutes 1.70 seconds. He won a further silver in the 4x100m medley relay at the World Championship with same Olympic line-up of Walker-Hebborn, Guy and Peaty.