Christopher Scott

Christopher Ian Scott, OAM (born 29 October 1968) Scott attended Salisbury State High School and it was here where he began to participate more in sport and became involved in the Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association.

Career

Scott first competed at the Paralympics in 7-a-side Football at the 1988 Seoul Games. He also competed in athletics in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona. He switched to cycling due to a broken ankle.

At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Mixed Bicycle Time Trial CP Div 4 event and a bronze medal in the Mixed Bicycle Road Race CP Div 4 event. Scott, the captain of the Australian cycling team, relinquished his place in the team in the finals so that fellow cyclist Peter Homann could get a chance to win a gold medal at his last Paralympics; the Australian team won the event so Homann received the gold medal along with Scott and the rest of the team.

In a 2008 interview, he said of this action: "I already had my gold medal. It's what you do in a team. Peter deserved his chance on the podium." He received the Australian Paralympic Committee's Senior Male Athlete award in 2002, and Sporting Wheelie of the Year in 2002 and 2005. He also won the Australian Male Disabled Cyclist of the Year awards for four consecutive years from 2002 to 2005, and was the 2005 Australian Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability. In 2015, he was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.

In 2011, he was interviewed by Ian Jobling in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project of the National Library of Australia. In 2016, he was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame. In 2026, he was inducted into Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame.