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| Full name | Scott Thomas Talbot | ||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||
| Born | (1981-07-13)13 July 1981 (age 43) Canberra, Australia | ||||||||
| Relatives | Don Talbot (father) Jan Cameron (mother) | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||
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Scott Thomas Talbot, alsoTalbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian-born swimmer and swimming coach who represented New Zealand in swimming from 1997 to 2006 and has worked as a coach in several countries.
Talbot is the son ofDon Talbot andJan Cameron (née Murphy), both national head coaches; his mother was also an Australian Tokyo Olympics silver medalist in 1964. Born inCanberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada, then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten.[1] He attendedRosmini College in Auckland andAuburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated fromMassey University inAlbany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.[2][3]
He swam for New Zealand, for which he was a national record holder, at the2000 and2004 Olympics.[4]
Talbot also swam at the:[5]
At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming team captain and broke theNational Record in the 100m backstroke in finishing 5th.
Talbot 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 for the swimming team at theUniversity of Sydney.[7]He attended the2012 London Olympics as a national coach for New Zealand.[8]
In 2013, he moved back to Australia to work as the Head Middle Distance Coach at theUniversity of Sydney, and in 2016 he was appointed as the High Performance Coach at theNunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne.[9][10]
In September 2020, he became director and head coach ofRepton School and swimming club, before taking up a position atSwimming Canada as head performance coach at the High Performance Centre Vancouver in 2022.[11]
Talbot is married to Lucy and has 2 daughters.[11]
