Duncan Scott (swimmer)

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Duncan Scott
MBE
Duncan Scott at BUCS Nationals 2020.jpg
Personal information
Full nameDuncan William MacNaughton Scott
Nickname(s)Slam, Dunks
National teamGreat Britain
Scotland
Born (1997-05-06) 6 May 1997 (age 26)
Glasgow, Scotland [1]
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, Freestyle, Medley
Club University of Stirling
CoachSteven Tigg, Brad Hoy
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 150
World Championships (LC)423
European Championships (LC)740
European Championships (SC)022
Commonwealth Games 328
Total151513
Men's swimming
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Tokyo 200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Tokyo 200 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Kazan 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 200 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 Gwangju 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Doha 4×100 m mixed medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 London 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 London 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Glasgow 200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Glasgow 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Glasgow 100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Budapest 200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Otopeni 200 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Otopeni 4 x 50 m freestyle relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Glasgow 200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Glasgow 4x50 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Copenhagen 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2017 Copenhagen200 m freestyle
European Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Baku [lower-alpha 1] 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Baku200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Baku4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Baku4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Baku4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Baku4×100 m mixed freestyle
Representing Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham 200 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 200 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 400 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley

Duncan William MacNaughton Scott MBE (born 6 May 1997) is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, LEN European Aquatics Championships, European Games and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Scott made history after winning four medals - more than any other British athlete at a single Olympic Games - in Tokyo 2020, simultaneously becoming Great Britain's most decorated swimmer in Olympic history. [2] [3]

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An all-rounder in the pool, Scott has swum internationally in 100 and 200 metres freestyle and butterfly, and 200 metres individual medley. He has won gold at the Olympics, three golds at the World Championships in 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay, a World Championship gold in the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay, as well as silvers at the World Championships and Olympics in freestyle and medley relay. Individually, Scott was the 100 metre freestyle champion at the 2015 European Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 200 metre freestyle champion at the same European Games and the 2018 European Aquatics Championships. He is an Olympic silver medalist in the individual 200 metres freestyle, and a World silver medalist in the 200 metres individual medley.

Winning three gold medals in the (100 m and 200 m freestyle, and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay) at the 2015 European Games, [4] he was the most successful British athlete at the Games. [4] 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. [5] In 2016, he was a member of the Great Britain team that won silver in the final of the same event at the Olympic Games as well as 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 Championships. A noted relay swimmer, Scott broke the individual British 200 metre freestyle record leading off in the men's 4 x 200 metre relay, before anchoring the team that won gold in 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2019 World Championships.

Early life

Duncan Scott grew up in Alloa, [6] [7] moving to Strathallan School on a sport scholarship at the beginning of secondary. He trained daily throughout his high school years. [8]

Career

Scott came to public attention when he won eight gold medals at the 2013 Scottish Age Group Championships in Edinburgh. [9] 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. [10] 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). [11]

2016

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, he won a silver in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with Stephen Milne, James Guy, and Dan Wallace. He also won another silver in the 4 × 100 m medley relay with Chris Walker-Hebborn, James Guy and Adam Peaty. [12] He was placed 5th in the final of the individual men's 100 metres freestyle.

2017

In the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. He won gold in the 4 × 200 m freestyle with James Guy, Stephen Milne and Nick Grainger in a time of seven minutes 1.70 seconds. [13] He won a further silver in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the World Championship with same Olympic line-up of Walker-Hebborn, Guy and Peaty. [14]

2018

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Scott won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle in a time of 48.02 seconds. [15] He also won four bronze medals at the Games: in the 200 metre butterfly, 200 metre freestyle, 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, and 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, and became the first Scottish athlete to win five medals a single Commonwealth Games. [15] [16] He added a sixth medal when he won the silver medal in the 200 metre individual medley. [17]

At the 2018 European Championships, Scott won a silver in the 100 metre freestyle. [18] Later the same day he won gold as part of the relay team in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay with Calum Jarvis, Thomas Dean and James Guy. [19] He also won gold in the 200 metre freestyle, despite only having just made the final in 8th place. [20] He added a third gold in the final day of the championships, winning the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay as part of the British team with Adam Peaty, James Guy and Nicholas Pyle. [21]

On 13 September he was named Scottish Sportsperson of the Year at the Team Scotland Scottish Sports Awards. [22]

2019

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea, Scott came joint fourth in the 200 m freestyle, but the first-placed finisher Danas Rapšys was disqualified for a false start, and Scott was awarded a bronze medal together with Martin Malyutin. [23] After the medal ceremony, Scott refused to shake hands and take pictures with the gold medallist Sun Yang, who had previously been banned for a trimetazidine drug offence in 2014 for three months and was involved in an ongoing doping case controversy. [1] [24] This transpired following Australian Mack Horton's refusal to share a podium with Sun at the medal ceremony when the Chinese national anthem was played. [1] Both Sun and Scott were given official warnings from FINA; Scott was subjected to death threats from Sun's fans on social media. [25] [26]

In the lead-off leg in the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay final, Scott broke the British national record with a time of 1:44:91; the team finished fifth in the race. In the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay together with Adam Peaty, James Guy and Luke Greenbank, he swam the anchor leg in 46.14 seconds, the second fastest freestyle relay split of all time, [27] and the fastest in textile. He managed to overcome a 1.11 second deficit to finish in front of the United States team, thereby winning Britain's first gold medal in the event in the World Championships in a European record time of three minutes, 28.10 seconds. [28]

2020

Duncan competed for London Roar during the 2020 International Swim League once again and during the tournament in Budapest he set a new British Record in the 200 Individual Medley [29] and broke the British Record for the 200m freestyle twice, a week apart from each other. [30]

Based on his 2019 individual world championship result, Scott was pre-selected for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [31]

2021

At the 2021 British Swimming Olympic trials, Scott broke the British record in the 200m individual medley with a time of 1:55.90. [32] In May 2021, Scott won a silver medal in 200m freestyle at the European Championships. [33] He also won two gold medals in the men's 4 x 100 m medley and mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle relays, [34] [35] as well as two silvers in the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle and 4 × 200 metre freestyle relays. [36]

At the 2021 British Championships Duncan set a new British Record of 1:55:90 in the 200IM, [37] then went onto equal his existing British Record in the 100m Freestyle and finished off with a new British Record in the 200m Freestyle with a time of 1:44:47. [38]

A month later in May 2021, the LEN European Aquatics Championships saw Duncan win Gold in the mixed 4×100 free relay and men’s 4×100 medley relay; He also achieved Silver medals in the 200m freestyle, men’s 4x 100 freestyle relay and men’s 4×200 freestyle relay. [39]

At the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics Duncan made history with his medals.

He won gold in the men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay and silver in the men’s medley relay which set a new European record of 3:27.51. He also took silver in the individual 200m freestyle and 200 IM where he set a new British Record of 1:55.28. These achievements made him Great Britain’s most decorated athlete in any sport at one Olympic Games and Great Britain’s most decorated Olympic swimmer ever. [40]

Duncan won silver in 200m freestyle, finishing 0.04 seconds behind the winner and teammate, Tom Dean. [41] He followed it up with a gold as part of the 4×200m freestyle relay team with Tom Dean, James Guy, and Matt Richards, winning it in a European record of 6 minutes 58.58 seconds. [42] He also claimed a silver in men's 200 metre individual medley, [43] and another in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay with Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty, and James Guy, making him the first British athlete to win four medals in a single Games leading to calls for him to be nominated for a knighthood. [44]

In the 2021 International Swimming League, Scott won match most valuable player honours for the fifteenth match of the overall season, which was the fourth match of the playoffs season, narrowly winning top honours over Ryan Murphy of LA Current by 4.0 points. [45]

Scott was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to swimming. [46] [47]

2022

At the 2022 British Swimming Championships in April, Scott won the 400 metre individual medley with a Commonwealth record, British record, 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 4:09.18. [48] [49] [50] [51] On 2 May, he was officially nominated by Scottish Swimming to be a member of Team Scotland for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [52] He withdrew from the 2022 World Championships in advance of the start of competition due to training difficulties leading up to the start of the Championships in June. [53] [54] [55] [56] In mid-July, approximately a week before the start of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he withdrew from the 2022 European Aquatics Championships. [57]

In the 2022 New Years honours list Duncan was recognised for services to swimming with an MBE. [58]

2022 Commonwealth Games

2022 Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 200 m freestyle 1:45.02
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 200 m individual medley 1:56.88 (GR)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 400 m individual medley 4:11.27
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 100 m freestyle 48.27
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 4×200 m freestyle 7:09.33
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 4×100 m medley 3:35.11 (NR)

Once again Duncan made history at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. He amassed 2 gold medals in his signature 200m freestyle and 200m IM in addition to 4 bronze medals, making him Scotland’s most decorated athlete ever in the Commonwealth Games. [59]

On the second day of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England in July and August, Scott swam a 1:47.16 in the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle, qualifying for the final ranking second. [60] Later in the morning, he ranked seventh in the preliminaries of the 400 metre individual medley, swimming a time of 4:20.92 to qualify for the final. [61] In the final of the 200 metre freestyle, he won the gold medal with a time of 1:45.02. [62] [63] [64] He followed his gold medal up with a bronze medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a time of 4:11.27. [63] [64] [65] The following day, Scott ranked third in the preliminaries of the 200 metre butterfly and advanced to the final with his time of 1:57.48. [66] In his second event of the morning, the 100 metre freestyle, he qualified for the semifinals. [67] For the evening finals session, he started off with a fifth-place finish in the 200 metre butterfly in a time of 1:56.89. [68] [69] Less than an hour later, he ranked sixth in the semifinals of the 100 metre freestyle with a 48.78 and qualified for the final. [70]

In the final of the 100 metre freestyle on day four, Scott finished in a time of 48.27 seconds and won the bronze medal. [71] [72] Later in the session, he won a bronze medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, splitting a 1:44.48 for the fourth leg of the relay to help finish in 7:09.33. [72] [73] His relay bronze medal marked his eleventh total medal at the Commonwealth Games and he became the most decorated Scottish competitor across all Commonwealth Games, breaking the former record of ten total medals set by shooter Alister Allan in 1994. [72] [74] Two days later, on the sixth and final day, he qualified for the final of the 200 metre individual medley along with fellow Scotsman Mark Szaranek, ranking third with a time of 2:00.41. [75] [76] In the final, he won the gold medal with a Games record time of 1:56.88. [77] [78] For his final event of the Games, he split a 51.74 for the butterfly leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final to help win the bronze medal with a Scottish record time of 3:35.11. [78] [79]

2022 Swimming World Cup At his first FINA Swimming World Cup, the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup stop held in November in Indianapolis, United States, Scott placed eighth in the 400 metre freestyle with a 3:45.35 on day one, twelfth in the 200 metre individual medley with a time of 1:58.50 on day two, tenth in the 400 metre individual medley on day three with a 4:12.98, and fifteenth in the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:44.80, also on day three. [80]

2023

2024

Scott won the 200 metres medley at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships sealing his place at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [81]

International championships

Long course metres (50 m pool)

MeetIndividual eventsRelay events
50 free100 free200 free200 fly200 medley400 medley4×100

free

4×200

free

4×100

medley

4×100

mixed free

4×100

mixed medley

Junior level
EYOF 2013 Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg—Silver medal icon.svg
EJC 2014 4thGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
YOG 2014 8th6th4th9thGold medal icon.svg—6th6th
EG 2015 Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
Senior level
CG 2014 4thSilver medal icon.svg——
WC 2015 10thGold medal icon.svg [a]
EC 2016 13th30thDNS7th6thGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg [a]
OG 2016 5thSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg——
WC 2017 5th4thGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
CG 2018 Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg4th——
EC 2018 Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg3rd (h)Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
WC 2019 DNSBronze medal icon.svg5th5th5thGold medal icon.svg
EC 2020 DNSSilver medal icon.svg6thSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
OG 2020 Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg—
CG 2022 Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg5thGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
WC 2023 Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
a Scott swam only in the prelims heats.

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Meet100 free200 free200 fly100 medley200 medley400 medley4×50

free

4×50

medley

4×50

mixed free

EC 2017 Bronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgDNS9th
EC 2019 5thSilver medal icon.svg8th4th1st (h)4th13thSilver medal icon.svg
EC 2023Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
WC 2021 4thDNS7thDNS

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotesRef
100 m freestyle47.872019 British Swimming Championships Glasgow, Scotland 18 April 2019 NR [8]
200 m freestyle1:44.26 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 27 July 2021 NR [8]
100 m butterfly52.252019 British Swimming Championships Glasgow, Scotland 19 April 2019 NR [8]
200 m butterfly1:56.60 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 7 April 2018 [8]
200 m individual medley1:55.28 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 30 July 2021 CR , NR [8]
400 m individual medley4:09.18 2022 British Swimming Championships Sheffield, England 7 April 2022 NR , Former CR [48] [49] [50] [51]
Legend: CR – Commonwealth record;NR – Scottish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course metres (25 m pool)

EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotesRef
100 m freestyle46.09 2019 International Swimming League Las Vegas, United States 21 December 2019 NR [8]
200 m freestyle1:40.25 2020 International Swimming League Budapest, Hungary 22 November 2020 CR , NR [8]
400 m freestyle3:39.11 2021 International Swimming League Eindhoven, Netherlands 20 November 2021 NR [8]
100 m individual medley51.78 2021 International Swimming League Eindhoven, Netherlands 26 November 2021 NR [8]
200 m individual medley1:51.53 2021 International Swimming League Eindhoven, Netherlands 3 December 2021 NR [8]
400 m individual medley3:59.81 2019 International Swimming League Las Vegas, United States 20 December 2019 NR [8]
Legend: CR – Commonwealth record;NR – Scottish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Awards and honours

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Swimming programme limited to juniors - doubled up as the 2015 European Junior Swimming Championships

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