Alistair Davis

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Alistair Davis
Personal information
NationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Born (1992-12-01) 1 December 1992 (age 30)
Pretoria, South Africa
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight87.9998 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap, double trap
ClubCenturion Gun Club [1] [2]
Coached byFrank Davis [1] [2]
Retired2014

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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