Dave Scott

0 Dave Scott
Dave Scott (2008)
Personal information
Date of birth	4th January 1954 (age 66)
place of birth	United States
Nickname	The Man
societies
successes
1980-1987	6 × Ironman Hawaii winner
1982-1994	3 × Second Ironman Hawaii
1983, 1984	2 × Second Triathlon International de Nice
1985, 1989	2 × Winner Japan Long Distance Triathlon
status
resigned

Dave Scott (born January 4, 1954 in the USA ) is a former American triathlete who won the Ironman Hawaii a total of six times (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1987), which is only his strongest competitor after him Mark Allen also took six wins. He is ranked sixth in the list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance . ^{(As of March 2019)}

Career

Dave Scott has shaped the triathlon like no other. His duels with Mark Allen contributed greatly to the popularity of this sport, especially in the USA.

Dave Scott, then living in Davis, California , came from swimming to triathlon. He completed his first triathlon in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the winner was a turkey prize. At the “Waikiki Rough Water Swim” in 1979, a competition that Scott won several times, he learned about the “Nautilus International Triathlon”, as the Ironman Hawaii was then called.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 1980

In 1980 he was able to win the third edition of this event - actually only declared as a personal challenge and not a sporting competition - in Honolulu over 3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.2 km running and with his winning time of 9: 24 h Tom Warren's time as the fastest of the previous year by almost two hours.

In 1983 Scott won the race, which has now been relocated to Kona , Hawaii, only 33 seconds ahead of his compatriot Scott Tinley and he holds one of the closest decisions for men. Furthermore, in 1983 he was the first athlete in the world to undercut the magical “nine-hour limit” at the Ironman Hawaii in 8:59 h. After his fourth win at the fifth start in Hawaii in 1984, he declared that this was his last Ironman. The background was also that no prize money was paid at the Ironman Hawaii before 1986.

On October 13, 1985, Scott started together with the then stars Mark Allen, Scott Molina , Scott Tinley and Rob Barel - instead of the Ironman Hawaii, which took place two weeks later - at the 1982 Triathlon International de Nice , initiated by Mark McCormack , which cost 75,000 US dollars Prize money attracted. Only Tinley decided at short notice to start in Hawaii. Scott was there as a commentator for ABC and motivated Tinley to set a new course record on the running track. When prize money was paid out for the first time at the Ironman Hawaii in 1986, Scott revoked his resignation and beat Tinley's winning time from the previous year in 8:28:37 h. In 1987 he achieved his sixth win in Hawaii.

In 1988 Scott canceled his eighth participation in Ironman Hawaii on the eve of the start.

With his winning time at the Ironman Japan 1989 of 8:01:32 h, Scott held the world's fastest time as the fastest triathlete on the Ironman distance for seven years. It was not until Ironman Europe 1996 that the German Lothar Leder managed to undercut this time (7:57:02 h).

Dave Scott - six-time Ironman Hawaii winner (2015)

In 1989 there was the legendary "Iron War", an eight-hour head-to-head race between Dave Scott and Mark Allen. At this point in time, everyone had B. has already won the Triathlon International de Nice six times - in terms of media attention at that time the world's most important triathlon alongside the Ironman Hawaii - but at his five starts in Hawaii he never succeeded in asserting himself against Dave Scott. Although Dave Scott achieved an incredible personal best in 8:10:13 h, Mark Allen was able to relegate him to second place for the first time in this sixth attempt. However, Allen was only able to break away from Dave Scott on a slight climb a few kilometers from the finish and finally work out a 58-second lead. Both the running time of Mark Allen (2:40:04 h) and that of Dave Scott (2:41:03 h) were the fastest splits in the third discipline of Ironman Hawaii until 2016.

Second Ironman Hawaii 1994

In 1994 Scott took part in the Ironman Hawaii again after a break and reached second place at the age of 40 and fifth when he participated in 1996. In 2001 Scott started again at the Ironman Hawaii, but got out on the bike course.

He is still active as a triathlete but works most of the time as a trainer or commentator . So he trained u. a. former British triathlete and Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington .

Private

Dave Scott was married to his wife, with whom he has three children, for twenty years until his divorce in 2005. He lives in Boulder ( Colorado ). His father, Prof. Verne Scott, was honored in 2008 for his success with the admission to the then newly founded USA Triathlon Hall of Fame .

According to some reports, he was said to have been vegan during his active time as a triathlete - according to his own statement, Dave Scott was not a vegan but a vegetarian and for some time now he has been adding some meat to his diet again:

"My apologies in not getting back to you. I was a vegetarian through the 80's and reintroduced fish, chicken and turkey in 1992. My diet is primarily plant based as it has been for 30 years. I gravitate towards tuna and salmon and once a week have either chicken or turkey. "

- Dave Scott

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• The Official Website of Dave Scott (English)
• Profile for Dave Scott at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science , accessed September 4, 2015
• Profile and results of Dave Scott in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 10, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kevin Mackinnon: Ironman Looks Back: Hall of Fame Inductee Dave Scott ( English ) In: ironman.com . February 22, 2013.
2. ↑ Sanction Permit, Entry Form and Athlete Guide for the first annual Hawaiian Iron Man Triathlon on February 18th, 1978 ( Memento from June 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Statistics: Winner, Times and Records ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ironman calling it quits ( English ) In: New York Times . October 8, 1984.
5. ↑ Pinellas Residents finish Ironman Event ( English ) In: The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg . October 8, 1984.
6. ↑ Ironman Triathlon to Offer Prize Money ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . July 20, 1986.
7. ↑ Associated Press: Ironman Triathlon: Molina Turns Into a Winner in Hawaii ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . October 23, 1988.
8. ↑ Matt Fitzgerald: Iron War: Two Incredible Athletes. One Epic Rivalry. The Greatest Race of All Time. ( English ). Quercus, 2011, ISBN 978-1-78087-133-2 .
9. ↑ CJ Olivares, Jr .: The Art of War: Looking Back at the 1989 Iron War ( English ) In: Triathlete Magazine . 1990.
10. ↑ More on Chrissie: Moore's Opinion, Lavamagazine.com Q and A
11. ↑ Matt Fitzgerald: The Man's Search for Meaning ( English ) In: triathlon.competitor.com . April 6, 2011.
12. ↑ A Day in the Life with Dave Scott (May 14, 2015)
13. ↑ US federation founds triathlon hall of fame
14. ↑ D. Enette Larson-Meyer: Vegetarian Sports Nutrition . Human Kinetics, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7360-6361-6 ( online ).
15. ↑ Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz: Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism . ABC-CLIO, 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-37557-6 ( online ).
16. ↑ Dave Scott is has been rumored to be a vegetarian athlete (March 28, 2011)
17. ↑ Source Ironman Europe, list of results 1995 (PDF; 9.9 MB, p. 38) July 1995, accessed on July 15, 2011 . 
18. ↑ Picture by Dave Scott - at Ironman Hawaii , Kona (October 1982) ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Dave Scott, William L. Scott: Dave Scott's triathlon training. Simon & Schuster, 1986, ISBN 0-671-60473-2 .