Beckie Scott

Beckie Scott
Beckie Scott and Sara Renner at the awards ceremony in Turin 2006
nation	Canada
birthday	1st August 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Vegreville , Canada
Career
society	Vermilion Nordic Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City 10 km pursuit silver 2006 Turin Team sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 19, 1994  World Cup victories in individual 4 ( details )  Overall World Cup 2. ( 2005/06 )  Sprint World Cup 3rd ( 2005/06 )  Distance World Cup 3rd ( 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 1 4th 3  Distance races 3 3 1  Season 0 1 0

Beckie Scott OC , AOE (born August 1, 1974 in Vegreville , Alberta ) is a Canadian former cross-country skier .

Beckie Scott grew up in the small town of Vermilion , Alberta. She started cross-country skiing at the age of five and competed in her first race at the age of seven. In 1988 she took part in the Junior World Championships. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Scott's best result was a 45th place in the pursuit.

After 2000 Beckie Scott was able to assert himself at the top of the world. At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , she won the gold medal in the pursuit. She actually finished this race in third place. But the two Russian women placed in front of her, Olga Danilowa and Larissa Lasutina , were disqualified because they had been doped with darbepoetin .

At the World Championships in 2003 and 2005, Beckie Scott narrowly missed the medals and was fourth in the sprint and pursuit race. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she won the silver medal in a team sprint with Sara Renner . In the cross-country skiing world cup she won four races in the 2005/06 season and came second in the overall world cup . In March 2006 she ended her career.

On March 29, 2005, Beckie Scott joined the World Anti-Doping Agency's Athletes Commission . In the elections of the International Olympic Committee , which took place during the Games in Turin, she was one of 15 athletes who applied for two free places on the Athletes' Commission. On February 23, 2006, she was elected together with the Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu and belongs to the IOC for eight years. It received 449 out of a total of 2003 votes cast by the participating athletes. Beckie Scott is also a Unicef ​​ambassador .

Beckie Scott is married to former Canadian cross-country skier Justin Wadsworth . In September 2007 she became the mother of a son. She is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

Scott was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports in 2007 and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2018 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada and a year later also received the Alberta Order of Excellence , the highest civilian honor in her home province. Scott holds honorary degrees from the law schools of the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 11, 2005	Vernon	Sprint freestyle
2.	December 17, 2005	Canmore	15 km classic Mst.
3.	January 21, 2006	Oberhof	2 × 7.5 km skiathlon
4th	March 19, 2006	Sapporo	2 × 7.5 km skiathlon

Web links

• Beckie Scott in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Beckie Scott in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Beckie Scott on the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta website