Scott Thomas Talbot, also Talbot-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.

Biography

Talbot is the son of

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and

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(née Murphy), both national head coaches; his mother was also an Australian Tokyo Olympics silver medalist in 1964. Born in Canberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada, then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten. He attended Rosmini College in Auckland and Auburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated from Massey University in

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with a BA in Psychology. He swam for New Zealand, for which he was a national record holder, at the

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and 2004 Olympics. Talbot also swam at the: * 2006 Commonwealth Games * 2005 World Championships, * 2004 Summer Olympics, * 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships, * 2003 World Student Games * 2002 Pan Pacs, *

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, * 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships, * 1999 Pan Pacs * 1999 Short Course Worlds, and *

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. At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming team captain and broke the National 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. In 2013 he became senior coach for the swimming team at the

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. He attended the

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as a national coach for New Zealand. In 2013, he moved back to Australia to work as the Head Middle Distance Coach at the

, and in 2016 he was appointed as the High Performance Coach at the

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Swimming Club in Melbourne. In September 2020 he became director and head coach of

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and swimming club, before taking up a position at Swimming Canada as head performance coach at the High Performance Centre Vancouver in 2022. Talbot is married to Lucy and has 2 daughters.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot, Scott 1981 births Living people Olympic swimmers of New Zealand Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Male backstroke swimmers New Zealand male swimmers New Zealand swimming coaches Sportspeople from Canberra Sportsmen from the Australian Capital Territory Australian emigrants to New Zealand Massey University alumni Auburn University alumni People educated at Rosmini College