Sonia Waddell

Sonia Waddell (née Scown, born 19 February 1973) is a New Zealand athlete. She represented her country at a World Junior Championship in hurdles before becoming a rower, in which sport she was twice an Olympic competitor and where she won silver at a World Rowing Championship. She later competed as a cyclist and won medals at a UCI Para-cycling Track World Championship as a sighted guide.

Sonia Waddell
Personal information
Birth nameSonia Scown
Born (1973-02-19) 19 February 1973[1]
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1998)​
RelativesAlistair Scown (father)
Rebecca Scown (cousin)
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's rowing
World Championships
2001 LucerneQuadruple sculls
Women's track cycling
Para-cycling World Championships
2011 MontichiariTime trial

Private life

Waddell is the daughter of former All Black Alistair Scown and sister of rugby player Hayden Scown. In 1998,[2] she married fellow rower Rob Waddell.[3][4] Rower Rebecca Scown is her cousin.[5]

Sports career

Athletics

She represented New Zealand in the 400 m hurdles at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.[6]

Rowing

She first represented her country in rowing at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she came ninth in the women's quadruple sculls.[7] From 1997 onwards, she competed in the single sculls, and at the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, and 1999, she placed tenth, tenth, and fifth, respectively.[8][9][10] At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she continued to compete in the single sculls, placing sixth and fifth, respectively.[1][11][12]

She won a silver medal in the 2001 World Rowing Championships in the quadruple sculls,[13] alongside Paula Twining and twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell.[14] In the 2003 World Rowing Championships, she competed in the single sculls and came seventh.[15]

Cycling

In 2011, she won the New Zealand Cycling Time Trial Championship.[16]

At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships she took one gold and one bronze as a pilot, with teammate Jayne Parsons.[17]

References
  1. "Sonia Waddell-Scown". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  2. "Top Kiwi marriages made in sport". Stuff.co.nz. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  3. "Rowing's golden couple dream of life off water". The New Zealand Herald. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  4. Wilson, Lib (18 September 2013). "Waddell's in-laws living Cup challenge". Waikato Times. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  5. "Rebecca Scown". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  6. "NZ's queen of rowing working at full stretch". The New Zealand Herald. 25 September 1999. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  7. "(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  8. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  9. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  10. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  11. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  12. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  13. "Rowing: Quadruple sculls continue silver championships". The New Zealand Herald. 27 August 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  14. "(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  15. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  16. "Waddell takes the title". Cyclingnews.com. 7 January 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  17. Kilgallon, Steve (4 July 2010). "Team-building all about blind faith". The Sunday Star-Times. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
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