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Born | Leeds, Great Britain | 24 May 1985|||||||||||
Alma mater | Imperial College London | |||||||||||
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Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||
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Adam James Scholefield (born 24 May 1985)[1] is a researcher and British water polo player.
He graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D in image processing.[2] He is 1.89 metres (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighs 99 kilograms (218 lb).[1] He is coached by Cristian Iordache, Petik Attila and Norman Leighton.[1]
Scholefield competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the men's tournament at the Water Polo Arena.[3][4] It was the first time the Great Britain men's national water polo team appeared at an Olympics since the 1956 Games held in Melbourne, Australia.[3] In 2014, he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Water Polo Championships in Aberdeen.[5]
Since June 2015, and as of March 2017, Scholefield is working, with Prof. Martin Vetterli, as a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[6]