Duncan Scott - Articles

by ELSPETH BURNSIDE

Published on the 13 April

Duncan Scott set a new Scottish junior and British age group record in the 50m Freestyle at last night’s Scottish Gas National Championships at Edinburgh’s Royal Commonwealth Pool.

The 15-year-old set a new mark of 23.75 in the one length race – minutes earlier he had won the 200m Backstroke in 2:09.80.

Two Olympians were in action on the third day of the Championships and Open Water specialist Keri-anne Payne stacked up her third Gold in the 17 and over 400m Freestyle.

The Grand Prix events take place three times a year. The January competition was hosted by the West District at the six lane 50m pool at the Dolan Centre in East Kilbride.

The Saturday and Sunday morning sessions started with a warm up at 8am with heats at 9am. Finalists were then to return for a 4.30pm warm up with finals at 5pm. A very long day for swimmers and parents if you don’t live near-by. Congratulations to the dedication of both.

Bo’ness ASC was fortunate to have six swimmers competing at the Scottish Short Course Nationals at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh before Christmas.

The three day event 14-16th December was attended by over 650 competitors, quite something for the Bo’ness kids. All the swimmers were swimming as F.I.R.S.T. (Falkirk Integrated Regional Swim Team) which is a combined training team of elite athletes from Bo’ness ASC, Falkirk Otters ASC and Grangemouth ASC.

In Sunderland Duncan Scott was swimming for Scotland at the WISE (Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England) international. He had 2 solo swims, 200 Butterfly and the 200 IM. He came home with the Silver in this and helped the 15-16 year old boys team to win Gold in the 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay. Duncan is one of 4 F.I.R.S.T. swimmers in the Scottish Swimming Youth Squad and is also mentioned in the Scottish Swimming Back a Rising Star.

The next event for all these swimmers will be the Scottish Nationals Short Course at the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh 14-16th December

Training continues for swimmers from Bo’ness ASC. Swimmers from the Falkirk Integrated Regional Swim Team (F.I.R.S.T.) participated at the Scottish Open last week end.

This was a four day competition held at the newly opened Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. This is the same 50m pool soon to be used for training by the GB swimmers prior to this years Olympics.

Five swimmers from Bo’ness made the standard to qualify. Heats are held in the morning and finals in the last session of the day. There are two sets of finals with the top 8 in the A final.

Day 1 Duncan Scott, 15, made the B final of the 200 Breast stroke. He swam a PB in the heats and improved on that in the final.

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Apr 2018

The Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast was the focus for April. Duncan left Scotland in the middle of March for a couple of weeks in a holding camp in Brisbane. After a delay due to illness Duncan joined the team in the commonwealth games village. The Games opened on the 4th. Swimmers don’t go to the opening ceremony as they compete the following day. Duncan’s first race was on the 6th. 6/4/18 He swam the 200 Free in the heats, fastest with a time of 1.46.62 and took the bronze in the [...]

Mar 2018

The snow for the Edinburgh International / British Championships meant the crowd was smaller than usual but the swimmers were there. They were conscious of the Australian trials for the Commonwealth Games taking place on the other side of the world. He swam the four disciplines of an IM – all looking good. The countdown to the Games has started. The swimmers left Scotland on the 17th March. They will have a bit of time in the holding camp before heading to Southport. Duncan is due to swim [...]

Feb 2018

The main competition for February was BUCs (British Universities and Colleges Sport) He broke the 200 Free record and the Stirling team won the 4 x 100 in a new record time. He had a healthy time for the 200IM final too.

Jan 2018

Duncan spent several weeks in Perth Western Australia with Scottish team mates enjoying winter sun. They returned late January and were off to Luxembourg for the Euro Meet 26th-28th January. Duncan swam 49.51 in the 100 Free A final – finishing 4th He didn’t make the A final in the 200Free but swam faster than the A final Gold medalist with a 1.47.87 – a stunning time for the part of the year. He took silver in the 200 IM with 2.00.74. A great start to the New Year.

Dec 2017

A busy month competitions in Edinburgh and Copenhagen. Duncan took the 200IM title. He rested from a variety of swims knowing he had the Europeans a few days later. When you aren’t 100%, you know it. Duncan joined the 9 swimmers of the British team in Copenhagen for his first International Short Course competition. Day 2 he swam in the 200 Free. Parents were flying to watch the rest of the competition so Euan text them the result – a marvellous bronze medal. His first open competition [...]

Nov 2017

Duncan is an ambassador for Scottish water and regularly appears at swimming pools to encourage children to swim. He appeared in the Scottish parliament to speak re the learn to swim programmes. We must not forget BUCs ( British Universities Short Course Competition) in Sheffield.

Oct 2017

Announcement by British Swimming of those athletes to gain lottery funding for 2017/18. Duncan has again been fortunate to secure lottery funding. Duncan spent some of October in Flagstaff before returning to the UK. Team GB for European Short Course announced.

Sep 2017

Award season The night of the 21/9/17 Duncan was through in Edinburgh to the EICC for the Team Scotland awards. We were delighted that sister Alexandria accompanied him.He was up against tough completion with Andy Murray, Calum Hawkins and Josh Taylor but the swimmer won the Male athlete of the year. What an accolade and to have the prize presented by Katherine Grainger. In between the awards Stirling University celebrated its 50th Anniversary. The local MSP then mentioned Duncan in the [...]

Aug 2017

A couple of weeks rest before heading back to University of Stirling. The family managed one night away together.

Jul 2017

Worlds Budapest Duncan swam at the British Championships in Sheffield in April and secured a place in the British team by swimming a new British record in the 100 Freestyle. His time had him ranked fastest in the world in 2017. (47.90) Duncan had a busy week starting on Monday 24th with the 200 Freestyle heats and semis in the evening. His time in the semis had him ranked 1st for the final on the Tuesday with a PB of 1.45.16 25th was finals night. He swam a 1.45.27 and finished fourth in the [...]

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