Craig Henwood

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Craig Henwood
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1978-12-10) 10 December 1978 (age 45)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight109 kg (240 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap, double trap
ClubMelbourne Gun Club [1]
Coached byJack Henwood [1]

Craig Henwood (born 10 December 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter. [2] He won a gold medal for the men's trap shooting at the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships in Brisbane, accumulating a score of 143 clay pigeons. [1] Henwood is a member of the Melbourne Gun Club, and is coached and trained by his father Jack Henwood. [3]

Henwood represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's trap shooting, along with his teammate and five-time Olympian Michael Diamond. He scored a total of 109 clay pigeons in the preliminary rounds of the event, by one point ahead of Egypt's Adham Medhat, finishing only in thirty-first place. [4]

In November 2020, Henwood was elected to the board of Shooting Australia replacing the retiring Alan Smith

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References

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