Craig Henwood

Craig Henwood
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born (1978-12-10) 10 December 1978
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 109 kg (240 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap, double trap
Club Melbourne Gun Club[1]
Coached by Jack Henwood[1]

Craig Henwood (born December 10, 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a gold medal for the men's trap shooting at the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships in Brisbane, accumulating a score of 143 clay pigeons.[1] Henwood is a member of the Melbourne Gun Club, and is coached and trained by his father Jack Henwood.[3]

Henwood represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's trap shooting, along with his teammate and five-time Olympian Michael Diamond. He scored a total of 109 clay pigeons in the preliminary rounds of the event, by one point ahead of Egypt's Adham Medhat, finishing only in thirty-first place.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Craig Henwood". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. "Craig Henwood". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. Gannaway, Kath (25 March 2008). "Henwood has sights set on Olympics". Mountain Views Mail. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. "Men's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.

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