Michelle Scutt
British athlete
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Michelle Scutt, née Probert (born 17 June 1960) is a female former British Olympic athlete. Competing for Wales at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, behind Australia's Raelene Boyle.
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1960 Liverpool, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 400m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sale Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Scutt is from Culcheth[1] and attended Culcheth High School.[2]
Athletics career
Probert became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships.[3][4]
Probert married fellow international athlete Steve Scutt on 18 October 1980 in Culcheth and competed under her married name thereafter.[5][6][7] She moved to Loughborough where her husband worked at the university.
Scutt won a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, running the third leg of the 4 × 400 m relay. She was Welsh champion at 100m (1978–1982), 200m (1978, 1980–1982) and 400m (1979 and 1984).
Scutt regained the WAAA 400 metres title at the 1982 WAAA Championships.[8]
She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 400m[9] reaching the semi-final round,[10] and in the 4 × 400 m relay reaching the final and finishing in fourth place. Her personal best time in the 400m is 50.63, which she ran in Cwmbran in 1982, at the time a British record and still the Welsh record. In addition to her silver medal for 400 metres at the 1982 Commonwealth Games she also competed in the 200 metres and 4x400 metres relay.[11]
