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Duncan Scott, Archie Goodburn Among Scottish Swimming Award Winners

World Championships relay hero Duncan Scott and rising breaststroking ace Archie Goodburn were among the winners revealed at this year’s Scottish Swimming Awards.

Attended by over 300 guests from the Scottish swimming community on Saturday, September 28th, the ceremony celebrated the success of volunteers, athletes, and coaches both at the domestic and international level

22-year-old Scott was recognized twice on the night, picking up both the Swimmer of the Year Award and the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal. Already an individual Olympic finalist and two-time Olympic relay silver medalist, Scott busted out the second-fastest relay split of all-time (46.14) to anchor the British men’s 4x100m medley relay to gold at this year’s World Championships.

Scott also earned bronze in the men’s 200m freestyle event, tying Russia’s Martin Malyutin in the hotly-contested event that saw original winner Danas Rapsys disqualified for a false start. China’s Sun Yang wound up with the gold, while Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto snagged silver.

Out of the elite spotlight, Scott is a Learn to Swim Ambassador, donating his time to drowning prevention through his homeland.

Warrender Baths Club swimmer Goodburn was honored with the WG Todd Prize & Cup for males. He wrapped up his World Junior Swimming Championships campaign this summer with a bronze in the men’s 50m breaststroke. He shaved .02 off of his previous personal best to log 27.83 to pair his bronze with the silver he achieved in the same event at the European Junior Championships.

Also among the winners was Toni Shaw, earning the Disability Swimmer of the Year award. She took home 6 medals from the World Para Swimming

Versatile teen Katie Shanahan took home a trophy on the night as well, having been recognized with the WG Todd Prize & Cup for female. Shanahan broke the British Age Record for 14-year-olds in the women’s 200m IM at this year’s British Championships and collected bronze in the 400m IM event at this year’s European Junior Championships.

The full list of Awards winners for 2019 is as follows:

WG Todd Prize & Cup (Male) Archie Goodburn
WG Todd Prize & Cup (Female) Katie Shanahan
JY Coutts Award Maureen Campbell OBE
Synchronised Swimmer of the Year Niamh Peters
Eian Prentice Memorial Trophy Nathan Grimley
Junior Water Polo Player of the Year Harry Gray
Masters Decathlon Award (Male) Martin Snape
Masters Decathlon Award (Female) Audrey Cooper
John & Margaret Bell Award James Heatly
Denis Sullivan Memorial Trophy Katie Taylor
Jim Anderson Award for Disability Swimmer of the Year Toni Shaw
Swimmer of the Year Duncan Scott
John Gunning Volunteer Award (East) Carolyn Crichton
John Gunning Volunteer Award (Midland) Heather McCallum
John Gunning Volunteer Award (North) Sharon Hamilton
John Gunning Volunteer Award (West) Linda Atkinson
BSCA (Scotland) Junior Coach of the Year Danielle Brayson
BSCA (Scotland) Para Swimming Coach of the Year Gregor McMillan
BSCA (Scotland) Coach of the Year Duncan Scott
Scottish Water Learn to Swim Service Provider of the Year enjoyleisure
Club of the Year Kinross Otters
Nancy Riach Memorial Award Duncan Scott

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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