Scott Talbot-Cameron


Scott Talbot-Cameron 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:
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 Jan Cameron, who was the New Zealand head coach and Australian 1964 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist. 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.
Talbot-Cameron 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 for the swimming team at the University of Sydney.
He attended the 2012 London Olympics as a national coach for New Zealand.
In 2013, he moved back to Australia to work as the Head Middle Distance Coach at the University of Sydney, and in 2016 he was appointed as the High Performance Coach at the Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne.
Talbot-Cameron married Lucy Taylor in 2014.