DOUGLAS Sholto

Personal Information

Residence Sydney, NSW, AUS

Occupation Analyst

Languages English, French, Mandarin

Higher education Commerce, Engineering - University of Sydney: Australia

License number 24021996002

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Sport Specific Information

When and where did you begin this sport? He began fencing at school in 2008.

Why this sport? "I tried it out because I hadn't yet found a sport I loved. What initially drew me to it was the whole mental game of working out your opponents. [When I started training] with [coach] Antonio Signorello at the end of 2009 is when I really fell in love with the sport."

Handedness Left

General Interest

Hero / Idol Italian fencer Andrea Cassara. (rio2016.olympics.com.au, 11 Dec 2015)

Sporting philosophy / motto "Two things cripple Australian fencing, the fact that we aren't professional athletes like most competitors who train essentially full-time, and have their travel and training expenses fully covered. And it's hard to find strong opponents to improve against due to our geographic isolation. I can't help these, but I can ensure that I try and train harder and smarter in the time I do have. In the end, the fact that I love what I'm doing, while others treat it like a job, may end up making the difference." (corporate.olympics.com.au, 06 Nov 2015)

Awards and honours He was named the 2015 Fencer of the Year in New South Wales, Australia. (sydneyacademyoffencing.net, 25 Jan 2016)

Ambitions To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (corporate.olympics.com.au, 01 Aug 2017)

Other information OCCUPATION
As a student he spent a semester studying artificial intelligence and machine learning at Tsinghua University in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He graduated in 2019 and began working as a business analyst at McKinsey Digital in Australia. "I want to help build Australia's artificial intelligence ecosystem, and a big focus will be trying to take that energy in China and spark some of it back here." (LinkedIn profile, 01 Aug 2020; dfat.gov.au, 23 May 2019; corporate.olympics.com.au, 14 Dec 2017)