Scott Talbot-Cameron
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| Full name | Scott Thomas Talbot-Cameron | ||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | ||||||
| Born |
13 July 1981 Canberra, Australia | ||||||
| Sport | |||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||
Medal record
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Scott Talbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian born two-time Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer for New Zealand. He swam for New Zealand at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.[1]
Talbot-Cameron also swam at the:[2]
- 2006 Commonwealth Games
- 2005 World Championships,
- 2004 Summer Olympics,
- 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships,
- 2003 World Student Games
- 2002 Pan Pacs,
- 2000 Summer Olympics,
- 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships,
- 1999 Pan Pacs
- 1999 Short Course Worlds, and
- 1997 Oceania Swimming Championships.
At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming Team Captain and broke the National Record in the 100m backstroke in finishing 5th.
Talbot-Cameron is the son of former Australian Head Coach Don Talbot and former New Zealand Head Coach and Australian 1964 Tokyo Olympics Silver medalist Jan Cameron (née Murphy). Born in Canberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten.[3] He attended Rosmini College in Auckland and Auburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated from Massey University in Albany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.[4][5]
He began coaching swimming professionally at North Shore Swim Club in 2003, from junior through to senior levels, and was a New Zealand national coach in the High Performance Centre based in the Millennium Institute in Auckland.[6] In 2013 he became Senior Coach, Swimming at the University of Sydney.[7] He attended the 2012 London Olympics as a National Coach for New Zealand.[8] He married Lucy Taylor in 2014.
References
- ↑ Profile at the New Zealand's Commonwealth Games team website
- ↑ Talbot-Cameron bio from Swimming New Zealand; retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ↑ McFadden, Suzanne (17 August 2010). "Swimming: Born to coach". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Swimming to Success" (PDF). Sursum Corda. Summer 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ↑ "NCAA Div. I Men: No. 1 Longhorns Stick No. 4 Auburn". Swimming World Magazine. 12 January 2001. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ Johannsen, Dana (4 January 2008). "Swimming: Palmer surges ahead". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ↑ "New Zealand's Scott Talbot Moving to Australia". Swimming World Magazine. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ Bertrand, Kelly (30 July 2012). "Jan Cameron and Scott Talbot-Cameron: 'We're backing the Kiwis'". New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Retrieved 31 January 2015.