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Born | Northallerton, England | 7 May 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | City of York [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Paul Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scott Lincoln (born 7 May 1993) is an English athlete specialising in the shot put. [2] [3] He is a six-time British champion.
He became a six times British champion when winning the shot put event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships with a throw of 19.65 metres. [4] He won Bronze in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
After winning the shot put gold medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships (his 10th consecutive British title), Lincoln was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics [5] [6] where he failed to make the final. [7]
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