Personal information | |
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Nationality | South Africa |
Born | Pretoria, South Africa | 1 December 1992
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 87.9998 kg (194 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | Trap, double trap |
Club | Centurion Gun Club [1] [2] |
Coached by | Frank Davis [1] [2] |
Retired | 2014 |
Alistair Davis (born 1 December 1992) is a retired South African sport shooter. [1] [3] He won a gold medal in the men's double trap at the 2011 African Shooting Championships in Rabat, Morocco, with a total score of 182 targets, earning him a spot on the South African team for the Olympics. [2] [4] Davis is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in Pretoria, and is coached and trained by his father Frank Davis. [1] [2]
Davis represented South Africa at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed as the nation's lone shooter in the men's double trap. He scored a total of 132 targets in the qualifying rounds, one point behind Chinese shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Hu Binyuan, finishing in fifteenth place—the highest finish at the Olympics by a South African in clay target categories. [5]
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Malta competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The country's participation at London marked its fifteenth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The delegation included two track and field athletes, Rachid Chouhal and Diane Borg, one double trap shooter William Chetcuti and two swimmers Andrew Chetcuti and Nicola Muscat. All five competitors qualified for the Games through wildcard places. William Chetcuti was selected as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony while Borg held it at the closing ceremony. Choudai did not progress beyond the preliminary stages of the men's 100 metres, while Borg advanced to the first round of the women's 100 metres before being eliminated. William Chetcuti finished ninth in the double trap shooting event, while Andrew Chetcuti and Muscat were unable to progress to the first rounds of their respective swimming disciplines.
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