Beckie Scott

Rebecca “Beckie” Scott is a Canadian retired cross-country skier. She is Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete’s Commission along with Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu between 2006 and 2014.

Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. Supported by her parents, she began cross-country skiing at the age of five. She entered her first competition at age seven and attended the Junior National Championships in 1988. She went on to win seventeen World Cup medals in sprint, individual Scott is a three-time Olympian, participating at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.

Her best-placed finish in Nagano was 45th, but Scott won a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Salt Lake City games. She originally finished third in the 5 km pursuit, but she was upgraded to the gold medal when winner Olga Danilova and runner-up Larissa Lazutina were eventually disqualified for using darbepoetin, a performance-enhancing drug. Scott was awarded a silver medal before receiving her gold medal in June 2004, almost two and a half years after the Olympics ended. She became the first Canadian and first North American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.

Scott is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has been honoured with a variety of awards in Canada. She has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Waterloo. She holds honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Alberta  and the University of British Columbia. Scott was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence on October 17, 2019.

On March 29, 2005, Scott agreed to join the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) athlete committee.

On February 23, 2006, Scott was elected as an athlete member of the International Olympic Committee along with Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu. Scott retired on April 12, 2006, as the most decorated Canadian cross-country skier. 2006 was also her best season, with multiple victories and podiums on the World Cup circuit, to go with her Olympic silver in one of her races in Turin, and she lost out on winning her first World Cup overall season title to the great Marit Bjørgen by the smallest margin.

In September 2012 Scott was appointed to WADA’s executive committee. In September 2018, Scott resigned from the WADA compliance and review committee responsible for making a recommendation to end the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s suspension from WADA.

Biography Source: Wikipedia

Beckie Scott is the first North American to win Olympic gold in cross-country skiing. At the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, UT, Scott was first awarded the bronze medal in the women’s 10km pursuit. When the two skiers ahead of her were caught doping Scott pursued a two-year process that saw her awarded the silver and then the gold.
Source: Ski Trax / North America’s Nordic Ski Mag

Competitive Career Highlights
Source: Wikipedia

Olympic Games: 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)

Year	Age	5 km	10 km	15 km	Pursuit	30 km	Sprint	4 × 5 km relay	Team sprint
1998	21	47	N/A	60	45	51	N/A	16	N/A
2002	25	N/A	4	—	Gold	—	5	8	N/A
2006	29	N/A	DSQ	N/A	6	—	4	10	Silver

World Championships

Year	Age	5 km	10 km	15 km	Pursuit	30 km	Sprint	4 × 5 km relay	Team sprint
1995	20	42	N/A	40	43	—	N/A	—	N/A
1997	22	24	N/A	25	27	28	N/A	14	N/A
1999	24	36	N/A	53	29	—	N/A	15	N/A
2001	26	N/A	—	26	11	CNX[a]	9	6	N/A
2003	28	N/A	8	—	6	9	4	—	N/A
2005	30	N/A	13	N/A	4	15	12	—	10

World Cup / Season standings

Season	Age
		Overall	Distance	Long Distance	Middle Distance	Sprint
1994	19	NC	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1995	20	NC	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1996	21	NC	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1997	22	50	N/A	51	N/A	50
1998	23	33	N/A	43	N/A	31
1999	24	44	N/A	NC	N/A	21
2000	25	15	N/A	21	20	9
2001	26	15	N/A	N/A	N/A	17
2002	27	22	N/A	N/A	N/A	10
2003	28	9	N/A	N/A	N/A	10
2004	29	16	23	N/A	N/A	6
2005	30	18	22	N/A	N/A	12
2006	31			N/A	N/A

Individual podiums

• 4 victories
• 15 podiums

No.	Season	Date	Location	Race	Level	Place
1	2000–01	14 January 2001	Soldier Hollow, United States	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	3rd
2	2001–02	19 December 2001	Asiago, Italy	1.5 km Sprint F	World Cup	3rd
3	2002–03	19 December 2002	Linz, Austria	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	3rd
4		15 February 2003	Asiago, Italy	5 km Individual C	World Cup	2nd
5		20 March 2003	Borlänge, Sweden	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	3rd
6	2003–04	12 March 2004	Pragelato, Italy	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	2nd
7	2005–06	10 December 2005	Vernon, Canada	7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/F	World Cup	2nd
8		11 December 2005	Vernon, Canada	1.5 km Sprint F	World Cup	1st
9		15 December 2005	Canmore, Canada	10 km Individual F	World Cup	2nd
10		17 December 2005	Canmore, Canada	15 km Mass Start C	World Cup	1st
11		21 January 2006	Oberstdorf, Germany	7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/F	World Cup	1st
12		8 March 2006	Falun, Sweden	5 km + 5 km Skiathlon C/F	World Cup	3rd
13		9 March 2006	Drammen, Norway	1.0 km Sprint C	World Cup	2nd
14		15 March 2006	Changchun, China	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	2nd
15		19 March 2006	Sapporo, Japan	7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/F	World Cup	1st

Team podiums: 2 podiums

No.	Season	Date	Location	Race	Level	Place	Teammate(s)
1	2000–01	13 January 2001	Soldier Hollow, United States	4 × 5 km Relay C/F	World Cup	2nd	Renner / Thériault / Fortier
2	2005–06	18 December 2005	Canmore, Canada	6 × 1.2 km Team Sprint C	World Cup	2nd	Renner

 

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