{{Short description|Scottish wheelchair curler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Aileen Neilson | image = | imagesize = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = Mother Goose<ref name=sochi>{{cite web |url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/athlete-aileen-neilson |title=Aileen Neilson |website=Sochi2014.com |publisher=Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee |accessdate=15 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319225919/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/athlete-aileen-neilson |archive-date=2014-03-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | nationality = Scottish | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|8|15}} | birth_place = East Kilbride, Scotland<ref name=sochi /> | height = | weight = | country = {{flagcountry|Scotland}}<br />{{flagcountry|Great Britain}} | sport = Wheelchair curling | event = | paralympics = | worlds = | updated = 10 March 2019 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Wheelchair curling}} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Winter Paralympic Games}} {{MedalBronze | 2014 Sochi | Mixed competition }} {{MedalCountry | {{SCO}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalSilver | 2011 Prague | Mixed competition }} {{MedalSilver | 2019 Stirling | Mixed competition }} {{MedalBronze | 2007 Sollefteå | Mixed competition }} }}
'''Aileen Neilson''' (born 15 August 1971)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/wheelchair-curling/athletes/aileen-neilson_ath3001767En.html |title=Aileen Neilson |website=Vancouver2010.com |publisher=Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408221405/http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/wheelchair-curling/athletes/aileen-neilson_ath3001767En.html |archive-date=2010-04-08 |url-status=dead}}</ref> is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first woman to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011).<ref name=profile/>
==Career== 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.<ref name=sochi/>
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<ref name=profile>[http://www.scottishdisabilitysport.com/sds/index.cfm/sport/athlete-profiles/aileen-neilson/ Athlete Profile – Aileen Neilson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716020203/http://www.scottishdisabilitysport.com/sds/index.cfm/sport/athlete-profiles/aileen-neilson/ |date=16 July 2011 }}, Scottish Disability Sport</ref> and a silver from the 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship.<ref name=sochi/>
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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/26591242|title=Sochi Paralympics: GB curlers beat China to win bronze|date=15 March 2014|work=BBC Sport|publisher=BBC|access-date=16 March 2014}}</ref>
She is a teacher at Bent Primary School in South Lanarkshire. Her partner is former teammate and predecessor as skip of the British Paralympic rink Michael McCreadie.<ref name=sochi/>
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==External links== *{{sports links}} *{{BPA profile|aileen-neilson}} * [https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/8527454.stm Video profile] at BBC Sport *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100312200624/http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/wheelchair-curling/athletes/aileen-neilson_ath3001767En.html Profile] at the Official Website for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver
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