Michelle Scutt

Michelle Scutt
née Probert

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1960-06-17) 17 June 1960 Liverpool, England
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	400m
Club	Sale Harriers
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 4×400m relay Representing  Wales Commonwealth Games 1982 Brisbane 400m

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.

Scutt is from Culcheth¹ and attended Culcheth High School.²

Probert became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships.³⁴

Probert married fellow international athlete Steve Scutt on 18 October 1980 in Culcheth and competed under her married name thereafter.⁵⁶⁷ 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 100 m (1978–1982), 200 m (1978, 1980–1982) and 400 m (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 400 m⁹ 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 400 m 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