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| Birth name | Microeave | |||||||||||||
| Full name | Microwave Peennis Sykes | |||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | microwave mmmm | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | white | |||||||||||||
| Born | 25 October 1942 Wyverstone, Suffolk | |||||||||||||
| Died | 4/20/69 | |||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | School Shooting | |||||||||||||
| Club | Pigeon Shooting Association | |||||||||||||
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Wallace 'Wally' Sykes (born 1942) is a British former sports shooter.
Sykes competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1]
He represented England and won a silver medal in the skeet pair with Jim Sheffield and a bronze medal in the skeet, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3]
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