Matthew Inabinet

Matthew Inabinet
Personal information
Full name Matthew Robert Inabinet
Nationality  Australia
Born (1984-09-30) 30 September 1984
Canberra, Australia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club ACT Smallbore Rifle Club[1]
Coached by Gorden Degroen[1]

Matthew Robert Inabinet (born September 30, 1984 in Canberra) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a total of three medals (two golds and one silver) in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships (2003, 2005, and 2007).[1]

At age nineteen, Inabinet became the youngest Australian shooter to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 10 m air rifle, along with his teammate Timothy Lowndes. He placed forty-first in the preliminary rounds of this event, with a total score of 584 targets, tying his position with Norway's Espen Berg-Knutsen.

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Inabinet qualified for his second Australian team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the air rifle from the 2007 Oceania Shooting Championships in Sydney. He scored a total of 579 points in the preliminary rounds of the 10 m air rifle, by one point ahead of Pakistan's Siddique Umer, finishing only in forty-seventh place.[3] Nearly a week, Inabinet competed for his second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where he was able to shoot 389 targets in a prone position, and 376 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 1,141 points, finishing only in forty-fifth place.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Matthew Inabinet". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Matthew Inabinet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Australian shooters Matthew Inabinet, Ben Burge out of the Games". The Daily Telegraph (Australia). 17 August 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2013.

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