{{Short description|English shot putter (born 1993)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Scott Lincoln | image = 2022-08-15 European Championships 2022 – Men's Shot Put by Sandro Halank–026.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Lincoln in 2022 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|5|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Northallerton, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = <!--{{convert|?|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}--> | weight = <!--{{convert|?|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}--> | sport = Athletics | event = Shot put | club = City of York<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=50416 |title=Profile |website=Power of 10}}</ref> | coach = Paul Wilson | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport| Athletics}} {{Medal|Country|{{GBR2}}}} {{Medal|Competition|European Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2023 Kraków-Małopolska|Shot put}} {{Medal|Country|{{ENG}}}} {{Medal|Comp|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2022 Birmingham|Shot put}} }}
'''Scott T. Lincoln''' (born 7 May 1993) is an English athlete specialising in the shot put.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/scott-lincoln-14443881 |title=Athlete profile |website=World Athletics}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=l/athlete=145755-lincoln-scott/index.html |title=Athletes |website=European Athletics}}</ref> He is a ten-time British champion outdoors and competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/143113 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=19 July 2025}}</ref>
== Biography == In 2020 he became a six times British champion when winning the shot put event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships with a throw of 19.65 metres.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uka.org.uk/results/20200904_Manchester/timetable/index/ |title=Results list |website=British Athletics}}</ref> At the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he represented Great Britain for his first Olympic appearance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68775 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=19 July 2025}}</ref>
He represented England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he won a bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/birmingham-2022 |title=Birmingham 2022 Team |website=Team England |access-date=19 July 2025 }}</ref>
After winning the shot put gold medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships (his 10th consecutive British title and equalling the record by Carl Mysercough), Lincoln was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cd1646n46zpo |title=Kerr & Johnson-Thompson head GB Olympics athletics squad |website=BBC Sport |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/team-gb-athletics-squad-confirmed-for-paris-2024/|title=TEAM GB ATHLETICS SQUAD CONFIRMED FOR PARIS 2024|publisher=GB Athletics|accessdate=5 July 2024}}</ref> where he failed to make the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.com/athletics/scott-lincoln-has-bad-day-at-the-office-after-failing-to-qualify-for-shot-put-final_sto10276686/story.shtml|title=Scott Lincoln has 'bad day at the office' after failing to qualify for shot put final|publisher=Eurosport|accessdate=9 August 2024}}</ref>
He threw a personal best of 21.31m at the Golden Spike Grand Prix in Ostrava in May 2024.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=16 Feb 2026|date=1 May 2025|title= 63rd Ostrava Golden Spike|website=World Athletics|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7191205?eventId=10229619 }}</ref> Lincoln moved to Melbourne, Australia and returned to the UK to break Myerscough's record by winning his 11th British title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOaeH1LlFI |title=Scott Lincoln talks life down under after his 11th consecutive British title win |website=You Tube |access-date=3 August 2025}}</ref> After an eighth-placed finish at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Lincoln won his tenth national indoor title at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships on 15 February 2026.<ref>{{cite web|title= Scott Lincoln's perfect 10 as York's Lucy Hadaway also celebrates UK indoor title|accessdate=16 Feb 2026|first=Nick|last=Westby|website=Yorkshire Post|date=15 Feb 2026|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/scott-lincolns-perfect-10-as-yorks-lucy-hadaway-also-celebrates-uk-indoor-title-5598922#}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Team England|scott-lincoln}} * {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|62444}} * {{sports links}}
{{British Athletics Championships men's shot put champions}} {{British Indoor Athletics Championships men's shot put champions}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lincoln, Scott}} Category:Living people Category:1993 births Category:English men shot putters Category:British men shot putters Category:British Athletics Championships winners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games Category:Medalists at the 2023 European Games Category:European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain Category:European Games medalists in athletics Category:Sportspeople from Northallerton Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Category:21st-century English sportsmen Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain