Scott Talbot-Cameron
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| Full name | Scott Thomas Talbot-Cameron | ||||||
| Nationality |
 New Zealand | ||||||
| Born |
13 July 1981 Canberra, Australia | ||||||
| Sport | |||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||
| Stroke(s) | Backstroke | ||||||
Medal record
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Scott Talbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981 in Canberra, Australia) is a two-time Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from 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 Olympic medalist Jan Cameron. He attended Rosmini College and graduated from Massey University in Albany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.[3]
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.[4] In 2013 he became Senior Coach, Swimming at the University of Sydney.[5]
References
- ↑ Profile at the New Zealand's Commonwealth Games team website
- ↑ Talbot-Cameron bio from Swimming New Zealand; retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ↑ "Swimming to Success" (PDF). Sursum Corda. Summer 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ↑ 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.