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{{Short description|Canadian rower (born 1980)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2008}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's [[rowing (sport)|rowing]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Rowing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]] | [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair|Coxless pair]] }}
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[[File:Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair Final A (4).JPG|thumb|Rowing the final (in red/white) of the [[Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair|men's coxless pair]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].]]

'''Scott A. Frandsen''' (born 21 July 1980) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[rower]] of Danish and Swedish descent.

==Biography==
Born in [[Kelowna|Kelowna, British Columbia]], he began rowing at age 16 at [[Brentwood College School]], in [[Mill Bay, British Columbia]].

He crewed for four years at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. His freshman boat in 1999, coached by [[Craig Amerkhanian]], finished second at the [[Intercollegiate Rowing Association]] championship, which serves as the national championship race for men's collegiate rowing in the United States. In 2000, 2001, and 2002, he was in the varsity eight man crew, which won the IRA championship each year.  In 2000 and 2001, his boats were undefeated and are considered by many as the fastest collegiate boats ever.

In 2003, he went to [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Oxonian Olympians |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/famous_oxonians/oxonian_olympians/index.html |accessdate=15 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920083635/http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/famous_oxonians/oxonian_olympians/index.html |archivedate=20 September 2012 }}</ref> for graduate work.  There he crewed for the university in the Oxford Blue Boat against rivals Cambridge in [[The Boat Race]]. Despite their diminutive stature his Oxford crew won a dramatic [[The Boat Race 2003|race]] by the smallest ever recorded margin (one foot), and in so winning, they overturned the biggest weight deficit in the history of the contest.  They achieved this by over-rating and out-racing their heavier Cambridge counterparts on the outside of the long Surrey bend through the middle of the race. This took considerable guts and fortitude, and the attitude the crew exemplified in doing so was reflective of Frandsen's natural tenacity and stubbornness.  Commentators cite this tenacity as the main factor allowing the Oxford crew to upset the much bigger, more powerful and more experienced 2003 Cambridge boat.

Frandsen went on to row that summer with one of his [[Cambridge]] rivals from the 2003 Boat Race, [[Wayne Pommen]], at the 2003 [[World Rowing Championships]] in [[Milan]].  The Boat Race pairing took sixth place for Canada in a hotly contested final of the coxless pairs event.

The following year Frandsen pursued selection for the 2004 [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens Olympics]]. He won two gold medals on the 2004 World Cup circuit, both in the Men's Eight event (in [[Munich]], Germany and in [[Lucerne]], Switzerland).  At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] he was in the Canadian Men's Eight (M8+) which was the favourite for the event. His boat narrowly lost out to the Americans in the Heat, with both crews going under the previous World Record time.  Come the Final the Canadians had a disappointing row and finished out of the medals in fifth place.

In 2005, Frandsen was again in the Canadian Men's Eight.  This time, his boat finished seventh at the World Championships held in Gifu-Nagaragawa, Japan.  After a frustrating couple of years in the Canadian National Team system, at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]], China Scott won a [[silver medal]] in the [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair|Men's coxless pairs]] with [[David Calder (rower)|Dave Calder]]. It was [[Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics|Canada's first medal]] of the Games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frandsen and Calder win silver in rowing |url=https://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=246515 |publisher=[[The Sports Network|TSN]] | date=2008-08-16 |accessdate=2009-02-09}}</ref> [[Terry Paul]] coached them for the event.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/canadian-rowing-team-of-calder-frandsen-want-gold/article4446600/ | title=Canadian rowing team of Calder, Frandsen want gold |author=Smith, Beverley | work=[[The Globe and Mail]] | date=28 July 2012 | accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref>

He and David Calder teamed again at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 6th in the final.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Coxless Pair Results |url=http://www.olympic.org/olympic-results/london-2012/rowing/coxless-pair-2-m |publisher=IOC |accessdate=2013-08-21}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080817065043/http://www.rowingcanada.org/national_team/bios/hwt_men_08/ Profile] at Rowing Canada

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