Michelle Scutt
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1960 Liverpool, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 400m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sale Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michelle Scutt, née Probert (born 17 June 1960) is a female former British Olympic athlete. Competing for Wales at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, behind Australia's Raelene Boyle.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Scutt is from Culcheth[1] and attended Culcheth High School.[2]
Athletics career
[edit | edit source]Probert became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships.[3][4]
Probert married fellow international athlete Steve Scutt on 18 October 1980 in Culcheth and competed under her married name thereafter.[5][6][7] She moved to Loughborough where her husband worked at the university.
Scutt won a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, running the third leg of the 4 × 400 m relay. She was Welsh champion at 100m (1978–1982), 200m (1978, 1980–1982) and 400m (1979 and 1984).
Scutt regained the WAAA 400 metres title at the 1982 WAAA Championships.[8]
She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 400m[9] reaching the semi-final round,[10] and in the 4 × 400 m relay reaching the final and finishing in fourth place. Her personal best time in the 400m is 50.63, which she ran in Cwmbran in 1982, at the time a British record and still the Welsh record. In addition to her silver medal for 400 metres at the 1982 Commonwealth Games she also competed in the 200 metres and 4x400 metres relay.[11]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Liverpool Echo Thursday 11 July 1974, page 31
- ^ Liverpool Echo Thursday 7 July 1977, page 27
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Michelle Scutt at World AthleticsLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Liverpool
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Warrington
- Welsh women sprinters
- British women sprinters
- Welsh Olympic competitors
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics
- Olympic women sprinters
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics