Aileen Neilson (born 15 August 1971)[2] is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first woman to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011).[3]
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| Nickname | Mother Goose[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 August 1971 East Kilbride, Scotland[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Scotland Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editAlthough she comes from a family of curlers Neilson only took up the sport in 2004 at the age of 33. She subsequently made her international debut in 2006.[1]
She was part of the Great Britain wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.
She has a bronze medal from the 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship[3] and a silver from the 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship.[1]
She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics at Sochi with the British team beating China 7–3 in the third-place play-off match.[4]
She is a teacher at Bent Primary School in South Lanarkshire. Her partner is former teammate and predecessor as skip of the British Paralympic rink Michael McCreadie.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Aileen Neilson". Sochi2014.com. Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ "Aileen Neilson". Vancouver2010.com. Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010.
- ^ a b Athlete Profile – Aileen Neilson Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Disability Sport
- ^ "Sochi Paralympics: GB curlers beat China to win bronze". BBC Sport. BBC. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
External links
edit- Aileen Neilson at World Curling
- Aileen Neilson at Paralympic.org
- Aileen Neilson at the British Paralympic Association
- Aileen Neilson at ParalympicsGB
- Video profile at BBC Sport
- Profile at the Official Website for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver
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