| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Shirley Smith |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 8 July 1965 Falkirk, Scotland |
| Spouse | Donald McIntosh (1992-Present) |
| Sport | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sport | Sports shooting |
| Events | |
| Club | Alloa & District |
| Retired | September 1998 |
Medal record | |
Shirley McIntosh MBE (born 8 July 1965) is a retired Scottish sports shooter. [1]
McIntosh won a Gold and a Silver in the 1994 Commonwealth Games. [2]
At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships she won silver in the 50metre three position rifle event. [3]
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games she won Bronze in the Women's 50 metre rifle three position pairs and Bronze in the 50m rifle prone pairs, making her the second Scottish Woman to win four Commonwealth Games medals.
McIntosh is the mother of five-times Scottish Commonwealth Games medalist Jennifer McIntosh and 2014 Commonwealth Games competitor Seonaid McIntosh. [4]
McIntosh was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to shooting. [5]
McIntosh was inducted into the University of Edinburgh Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 [6] and into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. [7]
Yvonne Carole Grace Murray-Mooney, is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and gold medals at this distance at the 1987 European Indoor Championships, the 1993 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships. She also won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Her 3000 metres best of 8:29.02 was set in the Olympic Final of 1988.
Alister Millar "Jock" Allan, is an Olympic medal-winning Scottish rifleman who represented Great Britain at five Olympics between 1968 and 1992, placing in the top-10 all five times.
Scotland sent a team of athletes 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Winning 3 gold, 2 Silver and 7 Bronze. Finishing 11th in the medal table.
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Jonathan William James Hammond is a British sport shooter, who has competed for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the Olympics. He is currently the head coach of the rifle team at the West Virginia University.
Jennifer McIntosh is a Scottish Olympic sports shooter and fantasy author. McIntosh is the daughter of four-times Commonwealth Games medalist Shirley McIntosh and Donald McIntosh, and the elder sister of British Olympic shooter Seonaid McIntosh.
Martin Sinclair is a British sport shooter who won silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 50 m rifle prone pairs partnering with Neil Stirton. He was a member of the University of Edinburgh Rifle Club whilst studying at the University of Edinburgh. He won Gold in the 50m 3-Position Pairs even at the 1999 Commonwealth Championships with partner Donald McIntosh.
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Kenneth Parr is a male British sport shooter who has medalled at three Commonwealth Games. In 2016 he won a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Baku.
Seonaid McIntosh is a British sports shooter who became the World Champion at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the 50m Prone Rifle event. In 2019 she became Britain's most successful female rifle shooter of all time, winning five World Cup medals. She also became the first British Woman to rank World #1 for the 50m Rifle Three Position event and became European Champion in the 300m Rifle Prone event with an equal World Record score.
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Donald McIntosh is a Scottish rifle shooter and coach from Elgin, born July 1966. He represented Scotland for the first time in 1989 at the Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships in Wales. He has been capped 60 times, making him the seventh most capped Scottish shooter. He represented Scotland in the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games where he was unable to replicate his previous gold medal success in the Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships. Donald began his international coaching career at the 2003 World University Shooting Championships and continues to coach his younger daughter Seonaid McIntosh and coached his older daughter Jennifer McIntosh until her retirement in 2018. He is the owner of Edinkillie Sports Services.
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David Rattray is a Scottish retired sport shooter. Rattray represented Scotland at two Commonwealth Games in the 10m air rifle event, winning two bronze medals. He represented Great Britain at the 2002 ISSF World Championships, placing 70th.
In the women's small-bore sport rifle 3-position shooting, Australian Carrie Quigley won with 662.6, followed by Shirley McIntosh of Scotland with 661.6.
