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Sonia Waddell
Sonia Waddell (née Scown; born 19 February 1973) is a New Zealand athlete. She represented her country at a World Junior Championship in hurdles before becoming a rower, in which sport she was twice an Olympic competitor and where she won silver at a World Rowing Championship. She later competed as a cyclist and won medals at a UCI Para-cycling Track World Championship as a sighted guide. Private lifeWaddell is the daughter of former All Black Alistair Scown and sister of rugby player Hayden Scown. In 1998,[2] she married fellow rower Rob Waddell.[3][4] Rower Rebecca Scown is her cousin.[5] Sports careerAthleticsWaddell represented New Zealand in the 400 m hurdles at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.[6] RowingShe first represented her country in rowing at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she came ninth in the women's quadruple sculls.[7] From 1997 onwards, she competed in the single sculls, and at the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, and 1999, she placed tenth, tenth, and fifth, respectively.[8][9][10] At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she continued to compete in the single sculls, placing sixth and fifth, respectively.[1][11][12] She won a silver medal in the 2001 World Rowing Championships in the quadruple sculls,[13] alongside Paula Twining and twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell.[14] In the 2003 World Rowing Championships, she competed in the single sculls and came seventh.[15] CyclingIn 2011, she won the New Zealand Cycling Time Trial Championship.[16] At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships she took one gold and one bronze as a pilot, with teammate Jayne Parsons.[17] References
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