Alistair Davis (sport shooter)

Alistair Davis

Personal information
Nationality	South Africa
Born	(1992-12-01) 1 December 1992 (age 32) Pretoria, South Africa
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]

References

1. "Alistair Davis". London 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
2. "ISSF Profile – Alistair Davis". ISSF . Retrieved 8 February 2013.
3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alistair Davis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
4. Abdel Kader, Ghada (6–12 October 2011). "Aiming for 2012". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
5. "Men's Double Trap Qualification". London 2012. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile