Scott Meenagh

Rugby. (Twitter profile, 09 Apr 2020)

Competing in Para athletics at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. (Athlete, 05 Mar 2018)

Para rowing coach John Blair. (Athlete, 05 Mar 2018)

Scottish rugby union player Jason White. (Athlete, 05 Mar 2018)

"What leads you to the highest stages of sport is that you want to challenge yourself, and be a better version of yourself every single day." (forces.net, 05 Jan 2018)

In 2018 he was inducted to the North Lanarkshire Sporting Hall of Fame in Scotland. (motherwelltimes.co.uk, 25 May 2018)

He received the Overcoming Adversity Award at the 2012 Sun Military Awards in Great Britain. (redskymanagement.co.uk, 2016)

He competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. He also represented Great Britain at the 2016 International Para Rowing and Masters Regatta in Gavirate, Italy, and participated in Para athletics at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. Prior to his injury he played rugby at U18 level for Scotland. (SportsDeskOnline, 02 Jan 2019; dailyrecord.co.uk, 30 May 2017; coachmag.co.uk, 18 Apr 2016; britishrowing.org, 2016)

In 2011 he stepped on a roadside bomb while serving as a paratrooper in the British Army in Afghanistan. The explosion resulted in the amputation of both his legs below the knee. (Athlete, 05 Mar 2018; coachmag.co.uk, 18 Apr 2016)

OTHER STUDIES
He has studied history at the University of Stirling in Scotland. (Instagram profile, 31 Oct 2020)

IMPORTANCE OF SPORT
He says Para sport has allowed him to find his purpose again following his injury in 2011. "I had this story of how I lost my legs looming over my shoulder everywhere I went, every newspaper article was about being a soldier and losing my legs. The long and short of it was that was a bad day at work for us and I don't want it to define me for the rest of my life. Sport is what I've found that purpose, that reason and definition through. All of a sudden you find yourself in a world where people don't care how you got injured." (bbc.co.uk, 21 Jan 2018)