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Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||
Born | 11 August 1978 | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Wales | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Johanne Brekke (born 11 August 1978) [1] is a Welsh sports shooter.
Brekke won a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the Women's Smallbore Rifle Prone Pairs event alongside Ceri Dallimore, [2] [3] [4] a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 50m Rifle Prone event [5] and another bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 50m Rifle Prone Event. [6] She also competed in 1998. [7]
She was a Royal Air Force Air Cadet. [8]
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Ceri Dallimore and Joanne Brekke beat off a sustained challenge by the Scottish pair of Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson in the women's 50m prone rifle, to take Wales' first gold medal of the Games. England's Helen Vincent and Linda Smallbone took bronze.