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| Nickname | Mother Goose [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 August 1971 East Kilbride, Scotland [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Scotland  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aileen Neilson (born 15 August 1971) [2] is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first woman to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011). [3]
Although she comes from a family of curlers Neilson only took up the sport in 2004 at the age of 33. She subsequently made her international debut in 2006. [1]
She was part of the Great Britain wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.
She has a bronze medal from the 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship [3] and a silver from the 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship. [1]
She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics at Sochi with the British team beating China 7–3 in the third-place play-off match. [4]
She is a teacher at Bent Primary School in South Lanarkshire. Her partner is former teammate and predecessor as skip of the British Paralympic rink Michael McCreadie. [1]
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