page_title: Christopher Scott (cyclist)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Scott (cyclist) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Para-cyclist Chris Scott on the gold medal podium for the CP4 Individual Pursuit at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
context_page_description: Christopher Ian Scott, OAM is a former Australian paralympic cyclist. He has won ten medals at six Games from 1988 to 2008.
context_section_description: Scott first competed at the Paralympics in 7-a-side Football at the 1988 Soul Games. He also competed in athletics in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona. He switched to cycling due to a broken ankle. At the 1996 Atlanta games, he won a gold medal in the Mixed 5,000 m Time Trial Bicycle CP Div 4 event,  and a silver medal in the Mixed 20k Bicycle CP Div 4 event. In 1998 and 1999, he held an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship.
  At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Mixed Bicycle Time Trial CP Div 4 event and a bronze medal in the Mixed Bicycle Road Race CP Div 4 event. At the 2004 Athens Games, Scott was the male captain for the Australian Paralympic team. In the Men's Team Sprint LC1-4/CP 3/4 event at the 2004 Games, Scott, the captain of the Australian cycling team, relinquished his place in the team in the finals so that fellow cyclist Peter Homann could get a chance to win a gold medal at his last Paralympics; the Australian team won the event so Homann received the gold medal along with Scott and the rest of the team.
  In a 2008 interview, he said of this action: "I already had my gold medal. It's what you do in a team. Peter deserved his chance on the podium." He won two further gold medals in the Men's Road Race / Time Trial Bicycle CP Div 4 and Men's Individual Pursuit Bicycle CP Div 4 events at the 2004 Games. At the 2008 Beijing Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Individual Pursuit CP4 event, a silver medal in the Men's Individual Time Trial CP4 event and a bronze medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial CP4 event. The year before these Games, he had had back surgery and then was struck down by a car.
  He announced his retirement from Paralympic competition in Beijing due to "old age". He has since become an ambassador for the Cerebral Palsy League.
caption: Chris Scott gold medallist individual pursuit at the 2008 Beijing Games
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