Duncan Scott Wins Swimming Athlete of the Year over Adam Peaty at British Swimming Awards Banquet

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It is officially awards season in the sport of swimming with USA Swimming’s annual Golden Goggles coming up on Monday night in New York City, and British Swimming’s similar show going on tonight.

British Swimming awarded Duncan Scott with the swimming athlete of the year award over Adam Peaty and Ben Proud.

Scott, 21, won six medals at the Commonwealth Games, including a gold in the 100 free, a silver in the 200 IM, and bronzes in the 200 free and 200 fly. Scott continued his impressive summer with four medals at the European Championships where he won a gold in the 200 free and a silver in the 100 free. Scott won relay gold medals in Glasgow in the 4×100 medley and 4×200 free relays.

Scott’s 200 free time from Europeans was the fastest time from any of the major meets this summer and his 100 free from Commonwealth’s was third.

Scott was also the flag bearer for Scotland at the Closing Ceremonies at the Commonwealth Games this year, and also re-signed with Speedo shortly after the European Championships.

This might be slightly surprising for swimming fans, since Peaty broke a world record this summer in the 100 breaststroke at the European Championships, and Proud swam the fastest time in textile in the 50 freestyle at the same meet.

Even Scott could not believe he won the award over Peaty.

British Swimming athlete of the Year is……..Duncan Scott. "It has been phenomenal," he said of 2018. Other nominees were @adam_peaty
& @BenProud. Scott class in speech, saying: "Adam Peaty got a world record so I'm not sure what I'm doing up here."@Dunks_Scott #BSAwards18

— Liz Byrnes (@LizByrnes14) November 17, 2018

Other Award Winners:

Swimming

Emerging Athlete of the year: Tom Dean
Coach of the year: Steven Tigg

Diving

Emerging Athlete of the year: Lucas Thomson
Coach of the year: Alex Rochas
Athlete of the year: Jack Laugher

Water Polo

Coach of the year: Nick Hume
Female Athlete of the year: Stephanie Whittaker
Male Athlete of the year: Matthias Madden

Para-Swimming

Emerging Athlete of the year: Toni Shaw
Coach of the year: Jacquie Marshall
Athlete of the year: Tom Hamer

Synchro

Coach of the year: Paola Basso
Athlete of the year: Kate Shortman, Isabelle Thorpe

The 2018 Swimming Athlete of the Year made history at @GC2018 and then backed it up with more great racing on home soil at @Glasgow2018!

And the winner is…#BSAwards18 pic.twitter.com/BGBo3xBmdl

— Aquatics GB (@Aquatics_GB) November 17, 2018

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Thomas A. Small

5 years ago

Congratulations