Scott Reardon
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Reardon
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Scott Peter Reardon OAM (born 15 May 1990) is an Australian Paralympic leg amputee sprinter and water skier. He won water skiing world championships in 2007 and 2009. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics, winning a silver medal in the Men's 100 m T42. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he went one placing better to win the gold medal.
Reardon was born on 15 May 1990 in Temora, New South Wales. Scott Reardon grew up on his family's property near Temora, in the Riverina NSW, with a love for running and water skiing. The talented athlete has now represented his country with distinction in both sports. In 2002 Scott got his shoelace caught in the power take off shaft of a tractor and severed his right leg through the knee. He spent a month in hospital recovering and amazed doctors by relearning to walk in just one week. Scott continued to water-ski on one leg, representing Australia three times at the Water-Skiing World Championships and winning the world title twice in 2007 and 2009.
Growing up in the country NSW town of Temora, sport has long played a prominent role in Scott's life. The nephew of former Canterbury Bulldogs NRL player Steve Reardon, Scott was the 2005 Temora and District Sportsperson of the Year. In 2006 Scott attended a Paralympic Talent Search day and was immediately identified as having the potential to run on the track at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Watching the Australian Team compete at the Beijing Paralympic Games further inspired Scott to pursue his talent for running. After juggling water skiing and athletics for a while, he moved to Canberra in 2009 to train at the AIS and focus on his athletics career. At the AIS, he trained alongside his sporting heroes, former track star and gold medallist Heath Francis and gold medallist and world record holder Evan O'Hanlon. Now under the guidance of coach Iryna Dvoskina, Scott has quickly developed into a world class athlete. With less than a year of training he finished third in the 200m and fourth in the 100m at the 2010 National Athletics Championships in Perth. At the 2011 World Championships in Christchurch, Scott finished fourth in the 100m sprint and fifth in the 200m, signalling his medal credentials for London 2012. Down the track, Scott has firm intentions to add a Paralympic gold medal to his sporting resume.
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