Scott Talbot-Cameron

For the fellow New Zealand swimmer Scott Cameron (b. 1976), see Scott Cameron (swimmer).

Scott Talbot-Cameron

Personal information
Full name	Scott Thomas Talbot-Cameron
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1981-07-13) 13 July 1981 Canberra, Australia
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Medal record Oceania Swimming Championships Christchurch 2000 200m Backstroke

Scott Talbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian born two-time Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer for New Zealand. He swam for New Zealand at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.

Talbot-Cameron also swam at the:

• 2006 Commonwealth Games
• 2005 World Championships,
• 2004 Summer Olympics,
• 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships,
• 2003 World Student Games
• 2002 Pan Pacs,
• 2000 Summer Olympics,
• 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships,
• 1999 Pan Pacs
• 1999 Short Course Worlds, and
• 1997 Oceania Swimming Championships.

At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming Team Captain and broke the National Record in the 100m backstroke in finishing 5th.

Talbot-Cameron is the son of former Australian Head Coach Don Talbot and former New Zealand Head Coach and Australian 1964 Tokyo Olympics Silver medalist Jan Cameron (née Murphy). Born in Canberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten. He attended Rosmini College in Auckland and Auburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated from Massey University in Albany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.

He began coaching swimming professionally at North Shore Swim Club in 2003, from junior through to senior levels, and was a New Zealand national coach in the High Performance Centre based in the Millennium Institute in Auckland. In 2013 he became Senior Coach, Swimming at the University of Sydney. He attended the 2012 London Olympics as a National Coach for New Zealand. He married Lucy Taylor in 2014.