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| Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 June 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Olympic Trap | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Wixey (born 4 June 1971) is a Welsh sport shooter. [1] He competed in the men's trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. [2] [3]
The squad to represent Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was announced by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales (CGCW) on 22 February 2006. It consisted of 143 athletes competing across 14 sports; 85 fewer than the squad in 2002. The team was not able to improve on their medal tally from the 2002 Commonwealth Games when Wales won 6 Gold, 13 Silver and 12 Bronze medals. The team was captained by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport had an equal number of events for male and female athletes.
India has competed in all except four editions of the Commonwealth Games; starting at the second Games in 1934. India has also hosted the games once, in 2010. The most successful event for India in these games is shooting.
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Laetisha Scanlan is an Australian sport shooter. She competed in the women's trap event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal, she later went on to win gold in the same event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.
Timothy Kneale is a Manx sport shooter who specializes in the double trap. He is the current world record holder for the event, having scored 148 out of 150 at the 2014 ISSF World Cup meet in Munich, Germany. Apart from his world-record feat, Kneale has won two medals in a major international competition, a silver at the 2015 World Shotgun Championships and a bronze as a representative of the Isle of Man team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
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Kirsty Hegarty is a British trap shooter from Northern Ireland.
Sarah Wixey is a Welsh sport shooter. She competed in the women's trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal.
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Michael Wixey at the International Shooting Sport Federation
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