Beckie Scott

Rebecca "Beckie" Scott,[1] OC AOE MSM (born August 1, 1974) is a Canadian retired cross-country skier. She is Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu between 2006 and 2014.[2] She is married to the American former cross-country skier Justin Wadsworth.[3]

Beckie Scott
Country Canada
Full nameRebecca Scott
Born (1974-08-01) August 1, 1974
Vegreville, Alberta, Canada
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Ski clubVermilion Nordic Ski Club
World Cup career
Seasons13 – (1994–2006)
Individual wins4
Team wins0
Indiv. podiums15
Team podiums4
Indiv. starts129
Team starts16
Overall titles0 – (2nd in 2006)
Discipline titles0
Medal record
Women's cross-country skiing
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2002 Salt Lake City2 × 5 km pursuit
Silver medal – second place2006 TurinTeam sprint

Career
Beckie Scott during the torch relay for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, July 2012

Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. Supported by her parents, she began cross-country skiing at the age of five.[4] She entered her first competition at age seven and attended the Junior National Championships in 1988.[5] She went on to win seventeen World Cup medals in sprint, individual Scott is a three-time Olympian, participating at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Her best-placed finish in Nagano was 45th, but Scott won a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Salt Lake City games. She originally finished third in the 5 km pursuit, but she was upgraded to the gold medal when winner Olga Danilova and runner-up Larissa Lazutina were eventually disqualified for using darbepoetin, a performance-enhancing drug.[6] Scott was awarded a silver medal before receiving her gold medal in June 2004, almost two and a half years after the Olympics ended. She became the first Canadian and first North American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.

Scott is an Officer of the Order of Canada,[7] and has been honoured with a variety of awards in Canada. She has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame,[8] and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Waterloo.[4] She holds honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Alberta [9] and the University of British Columbia.[10] Scott was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence on October 17, 2019.[11]

On March 29, 2005, Scott agreed to join the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) athlete committee.[12]

On February 23, 2006, Scott was elected as an athlete member of the International Olympic Committee along with Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu.[13] Scott retired on April 12, 2006, as the most decorated Canadian cross-country skier. 2006 was also her best season, with multiple victories and podiums on the World Cup circuit, to go with her Olympic silver in one of her races in Turin, and she lost out on winning her first World Cup overall season title to the great Marit Bjørgen by the smallest margin.

In September 2012 Scott was appointed to WADA's executive committee.[2] In September 2018, Scott resigned from the WADA compliance and review committee responsible for making a recommendation to end the Russian Anti-Doping Agency's suspension from WADA.[14]

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[15]

Olympic Games
  • 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)
 Year   Age   5 km   10 km   15 km   Pursuit   30 km   Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 		  Team 
 sprint 
19982147—604551—16—
200225—4—Gold—58—
200629—DSQ—6—410Silver

World Championships
 Year   Age   5 km   10 km   15 km   Pursuit   30 km   Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 		  Team 
 sprint 
19952042—4043————
19972224—252728—14—
19992436—5329——15—
200126——2611CNX[a]96—
200328—8—694——
200530—13—41512—10
a. 1 Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

Season standings
 Season   Age 
Overall Distance Long Distance Middle Distance Sprint
199419NC————
199520NC————
199621NC————
19972250—51—50
19982333—43—31
19992444—NC—21
20002515—21209
20012615———17
20022722———10
2003289———10
2004291623——6
2005301822——12
2006312nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)——2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Individual podiums
  • 4 victories
  • 15 podiums
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place
12000–0114 January 2001United States Soldier Hollow, United States1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
22001–0219 December 2001Italy Asiago, Italy1.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
32002–0319 December 2002Austria Linz, Austria1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
415 February 2003Italy Asiago, Italy5 km Individual CWorld Cup2nd
520 March 2003Sweden Borlänge, Sweden1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
62003–0412 March 2004Italy Pragelato, Italy1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
72005–0610 December 2005Canada Vernon, Canada7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup2nd
811 December 20051.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup1st
915 December 2005Canada Canmore, Canada10 km Individual FWorld Cup2nd
1017 December 200515 km Mass Start CWorld Cup1st
1121 January 2006Germany Oberstdorf, Germany7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup1st
128 March 2006Sweden Falun, Sweden5 km + 5 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup3rd
139 March 2006Norway Drammen, Norway1.0 km Sprint CWorld Cup2nd
1415 March 2006China Changchun, China1.0 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
1519 March 2006Japan Sapporo, Japan7.5 km + 7.5 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup1st

Team podiums
  • 2 podiums – (1 RL, 1 TS)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammate(s)
12000–0113 January 2001United States Soldier Hollow, United States4 × 5 km Relay C/FWorld Cup2ndRenner / Thériault / Fortier
22005–0618 December 2005Canada Canmore, Canada6 × 1.2 km Team Sprint CWorld Cup2ndRenner

See also

References
  1. IOC member profile
  2. Christie, James (May 8, 2018). "Becky Scott joins top level of WADA". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  3. "Justin Wadsworth". Olympedia. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  4. "Beckie Scott | Team Canada". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  5. Korobanik, John (November 29, 2013). "Skiing in the Tracks of Olympian Beckie Scott". Snow Seekers. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  6. "Court Orders IOC to Award Beckie Scott Gold Medal". olympic.ca. December 18, 2003. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  7. Zimonjic, Peter (December 27, 2018). "Author Ann-Marie MacDonald, Olympian Beckie Scott joining Order of Canada". CBC. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  8. Christie, James (May 30, 2011). "Beckie Scott selected to Canadian Ski Hall of Fame". Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  9. "Dig deep and enjoy the journey, Olympian advises UAlberta grads". folio.ca. June 5, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  10. "2019 Honorary Degree Recipients | Okanagan Graduation".
  11. "The Alberta Order of Excellence". www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  12. "CBC Sports - Road to Torino: Anti-drug committee recruits Scott". Archived from the original on April 4, 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2005.
  13. ESPN - Beckie Scott, Saku Koivu elected to IOC - Olympics
  14. Pells, Eddie (September 15, 2018). "Beckie Scott resigns from WADA committee that recommended reinstating Russian Anti-Doping Agency". cbc.ca. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  15. "SCOTT Beckie". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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