George Barton (sport shooter)

George Barton
Personal information
Full name George Raymond Barton
Nationality  Australia
Born (1977-09-06) 6 September 1977
Tamworth, New South Wales,
Australia
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Skeet
Club Tamworth Gun Club[1]
Coached by Greg Chan[1]

George Raymond Barton (born September 6, 1977 in Tamworth, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a bronze medal in men's skeet pair shooting, along with his brother Clive Barton, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with a total score of 183 points.[3][4]

Barton made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt's Mostafa Hamdy.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in men's skeet shooting, along with his teammate Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czech Republic's Jan Sychra, for a total score of 116 targets.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 "ISSF Profile – George Barton". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. "George Barton". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. Oakes, Dan (20 March 2006). "Going great guns". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. "India hits the bullseye". Melbourne 2006 Corporation. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  5. "Men's Skeet Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  6. "Tamworth's Olympian shoots in Beijing". NBN News (Australia). 21 August 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2013.

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