Aileen Neilson
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| Nickname(s) | Mother Goose[1] | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | ||||||||||||
| Born | 15 August 1971 East Kilbride, Scotland[1] |
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| Country |  Scotland Great Britain |
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| Sport | Wheelchair curling | ||||||||||||
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Aileen Neilson (born 15 August 1971)[2] is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first female to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011).[3]
Although she comes from a family of curlers Neilson only took up the sport in 2004 at the age of 33. She subsequently made her international debut in 2006.[1]
She was part of the Great Britain wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.
She has a bronze medal from the 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship[3] and a silver from the 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship.[1]
She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics at Sochi with the British team beating China 7–3 in the third-place play-off match.[4]
She is employed as a teacher at Bent Primary School in South Lanarkshire. Her partner is former team-mate and predecessor as skip of the British Paralympic rink Michael McCreadie.[1]
References
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- ↑ Profile Aileen Neilson, Official site of Vancouver 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Athlete Profile – Aileen Neilson, Scottish Disability Sport
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Video profile at BBC Sport
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