Scout Bassett

Scout Bassett

Personal information
Birth name	Zhu Fuzhi
Nationality	American
Born	(1988-08-18) 18 August 1988 (age 36) Nanjing, China
Height	4 ft 9 in (145 cm)
Weight	86 lb (39 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Paralympic Track & Field
Disability class	T42 / F42
Coached by	Tonie Campbell
Medal record Women's para-athletics Representing  United States World Championships 2017 London 100 m T42 2017 London Long Jump T42 Parapan American Games 2019 Lima Long Jump T42 Women's paratriathlon World Championships 2008 Vancouver AWAD PC2 2010 Budapest TRI 2 2011 Beijing TRI 2

Scout Bassett (born Zhu Fuzhi;^[1] August 18, 1988) is an American Paralympic track and field athlete.^[1][2]

Bassett spent her first seven years of life in a government-run orphanage in Nanjing, China after she was found abandoned on the side of a street following the tragic loss of her right leg in a chemical fire as a newborn baby. While growing up, she made a makeshift prosthetic leg using leather belts and masking tape and began to walk, aged six, but never went outside of the orphanage in which she was being raised. Bassett was adopted in 1995 by an American couple from Michigan.