Sonia Waddell

Sonia Waddell
Personal information
Birth name Sonia Scown
Born (1973-02-19) 19 February 1973[1]
Spouse(s) Rob Waddell
Relatives Alistair Scown (father)
Medal record
Women's Rowing
Representing  New Zealand
World Championships
2001 Lucerne Quadruple sculls

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.

Private life

Waddell is the daughter of former All Black Alistair Scown and sister of rugby player Hayden Scown. She is married to fellow rower Rob Waddell.[2][3]

Sports career

Athletics

She represented New Zealand in the 400 m hurdles at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6][7][8] At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she continued to compete in the single sculls, placing sixth and fifth, respectively.[1][9][10]

She won a silver medal in the 2001 World Rowing Championships in the quadruple sculls,[11] alongside Paula Twining and twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell.[12] In the 2003 World Rowing Championships, she competed in the single sculls and came seventh.[13]

Cycling

In 2011 she won the New Zealand Cycling Time Trial Championship.[14]

At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships she took one gold and one bronze as a pilot, with teammate Jayne Parsons.[15]

References

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