George Barton (sport shooter)
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| Full name | George Raymond Barton | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | ||||||||||||
| Born |
6 September 1977 Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Skeet | ||||||||||||
| Club | Tamworth Gun Club[1] | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Greg Chan[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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George Raymond Barton (born 6 September 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 2 "ISSF Profile – George Barton". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "George Barton". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ Oakes, Dan (20 March 2006). "Going great guns". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "India hits the bullseye". Melbourne 2006 Corporation. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's Skeet Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Tamworth's Olympian shoots in Beijing". NBN News (Australia). 21 August 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2013.