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Full name | George Raymond Barton | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | 6 September 1977|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Skeet | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Tamworth Gun Club [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Greg Chan [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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George Raymond Barton (born 6 September 1977 in Tamworth, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter. [2] He won a bronze medal in men's skeet pair shooting, along with his brother Clive Barton, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with a total score of 183 points. [3] [4]
Barton made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt's Mostafa Hamdy.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in men's skeet shooting, along with his teammate Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czech Republic's Jan Sychra, for a total score of 116 targets. [5] [6]
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