| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 24 May 1989 Ipswich, England |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | F42 Javelin |
| Club | Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club |
| Coached by | Dan Pfaff |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Paralympic finals | 2012 Summer |
| Personal best | Javelin: 50.08m |
Scott Moorhouse (born 24 May 1989) is a Paralympian track and field athlete from England competing mainly in category F42 javelin throw. He represented Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
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My name is Scott Moorhouse I'm a paralympic javelin thrower in the F 42 class. Obviously I've been with the university a couple years I had the world championships back in January uh... which actually ran slightly into the start of term time again so they're really flexible with enabling me to extend coursework deadlines and bits and bobs. Particularly for myself who has only, sort of, come through the ranks uh... in the last sort of year, you know, funding and things like that are quite a struggle when you're trying to get to the top so their bursary shceme provided some of my javelins and the equipment that I need to train and so without that kind of support really it would have been a struggle to to get where I am today. The university uh... has a great gym facility as well and they recently had it refurbished so I was able to train there so I was able to train there and do some of the training that I needed to do which was ideal because my coach at the time was in Manchester so I actually needed somewhere to train that was quite local to me and so with the facilities being as good as they were there I was able to do some of that training there which was perfect. It was at Imperial College London uh... and basically they've got a project going on up until 2016 and one of projects is around prosthetics and so the students are doing a lot of research into how they can um... make new innovative designs for prosthetic legs in the F 42 class specifically for throwing events uh... and so I was working with those guys giving some of my experience and the feedback that I've had through having a prosthetic leg over, well the duration of my life uh... hopefully that was able to give them some good ideas as to how they might improve things that we already have going forwards uh... the idea of the scheme is to hopefully have something implemented that can be used by athletes by 2016. You know I think that as part of the sports science course, now I think I could vouch for the University of Essex and it's likely to be at other universities as well uh... that prosthetics is an area which is covered as part of the curriculum there so um... again you know that's that's great it's raising the awareness of of prosthetics it's uh... and hopefully then will encourage others to be involved with um... development further and get into roles where they can help paralympic sport um... move forwards
Biography
Moorhouse was born, Scott Paul William Durst, in Ipswich in 1989.[1] At the age of six weeks a severe burn resulted in the amputation of his left leg through the knee.[2][3] In 2008, while working in telecommunications, Moorhouse's manager heard a radio promotion from Paralympic GB who were running a talent day in London. He gave Moorhouse the day off to attend, and Moorhouse showed promise in several different disciplines at the meet. He decided to follow athletics and began training in 2009 with Windsor, Hounslow and Eton Athletics Club, showing promise in both the sprint and throwing events.[2]
In June 2010 he threw 41.25 to come fourth in a senior meet in Cardiff, and followed this with a second place in the World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic.[4] In 2011 he was part of the Great Britain squad that travelled to Christchurch in New Zealand to take part in the IPC Athletic Championships, he finished 4th in the F42 javelin, throwing 38.31.[4] In April he attended his second Junior World Championship, this time finishing third. Despite having to miss training to concentrate on his academic studies beforehand, his results in an IWAS Series meet in Stadskanaal in the Netherlands saw Moorhouse beat his personal best with three of his throws. His best of the three, 45.75m, was enough to give him first place.[2][4] Then, two weeks later in Cardiff, he threw a 47.33 which pushed him up the global rankings.[2]
In 2012, and now running with a Cheeteh Flex-Foot, Moorhouse was selected as part of the Great Britain team to compete in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the F42 javelin.[2] He made the final, but despite a season's best of 45.30m he finished seventh.
References
- ^ "Scott Moorhouse". paralympics.org.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Scott Moorhouse interview". uka.org.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ "A sporting innovation". thetimes.co.uk. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ a b c "Scott Moorhouse". thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
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