Bryan Wilson (sport shooter)

Australian sport shooter (born 1962)

Bryan Wilson

Personal information

Full name| Bryan Kenneth Wilson
Nationality|  Australia
Born|  (1962-09-26) 26 September 1962 (age 61)
Melbourne, Australia
Height| 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight| 100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
Sport| Shooting
Event(s)| 10 m running target (10RT)
50 m running target (50RT)
Club| Sporting Shooters Association[1]

Medal record

Men's shooting
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
|  1994 Victoria | 10RT

Bryan Kenneth Wilson (born 26 September 1962 in Melbourne) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He has competed for Australia in running target shooting at four Olympics (1984, 1988, 1996, and 2004), and has produced a phenomenal record of eleven medals in a major international competition: spanning the Commonwealth Games and the Oceanian Championships.[1] Wilson is a full-fledged member of the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia.[1]

## Career

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Wilson made his first ever Australian team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, finishing seventeenth in the 50 m running target with a score of 564 points.[3]

In 1988, Wilson won his first ever gold medal at the Oceanian Championships that culminated in his selection to the Australian team at his succeeding Games in Seoul 1988, but slumped to a distant twenty-second in a 23-shooter field of his pet event after faring poorly with 282 on the fast run, posting a qualifying score of 573.[1][4]

Despite missing his 1992 Olympic bid, Wilson cracked a new meet record of 657.9 to successfully claim his first and only short-distance running target title at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, mounting a charge in the final with a superb 1.9-point lead over the crowd favourite Mark Bedlington.[5] On his third Olympic appearance in Atlanta two years later, Wilson tied for eighteenth with North Korea's Kim Man-chol in the 10 m running target, outwitting the young US shooter Adam Saathoff, who finished dead last in the field, by five points.[6]

Although Wilson was not selected to the Australian squad in Sydney 2000, he had capped off a remarkable eight-year comeback for his fourth Games by beating Adam Gitsman at the national trials to fill in the Olympic quota place for his country that the latter had won from the Oceanian Championships a year earlier.[7][8] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Wilson marked 275 on the slow and a 269 on the fast run to round out the 19-shooter field of the men's 10 m running target in last place, finishing with a total score of 544 points.[9]

## Olympic results

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Event  | 1984  | 1988  | 1996  | 2004

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50-metre running target | 17th
564  | 21st
573  | Not held
10 metre running target | Not held  | 18th
560  | 19th
544

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Bryan Wilson". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bryan Wilson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
3. ^ "Los Angeles 1984: Shooting – Men's 50m Running Target" (PDF). Los Angeles 1984. LA84 Foundation. p. 67. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
4. ^ "Seoul 1988: Shooting – Men's 50m Running Target" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 394. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
5. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists – Shooting". UK Athletics. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
6. ^ "Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Men's 10m Running Target" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 122. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
7. ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 9\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
8. ^ "Australia Full Team List". Australia: Fox Sports. 4 August 2004. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
9. ^ "Shooting: Men's 10m Running Target Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

## External links

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* Bryan Wilson at the International Shooting Sport Federation
* Australian Olympic Team Bio