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29/07/2016 Paul Adams | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Paul Adams

Athlete Biography

Paul Adams secured his Olympic debut by becoming one of only two Australians to shoot a

benchmark score and win one of the three Australian selection events. Having shot a skeet

quali倀茂cation score of 122, Adams won the Australia Cup 2 event in Sydney to book his ticket to Rio.

He began shooting at the age of ten when his grandfather got him into the sport. He switched to

the Olympic discipline of skeet in 2010 with a goal of making his Olympic debut in 2012. He just

missed out on making the London team and would need to wait another four years to get his

chance to live out his dream.

Having 倀茂nished fourth at the 2014 Tucson World Cup event, he went on to compete at the 2014

Commonwealth Games. Adams shot the second highest quali倀茂cation score to move into the six-

man 倀茂nal. With the scores reset, Adams shot 11 out of the 16 targets missing out on the bronze-

medal shoot-o倀ࠃ by a single target.

Adams missed only one target in quali倀茂cation at the 2015 National Championships, shooting a new

personal best of 124/125 targets on his way to becoming national champion. The result quali倀茂ed

him for the 2015 World Championships where he was disappointed to 倀茂nish 27th.

He has balanced his shooting commitments with his studies and recently graduated as a registered

nurse. He has taken on a role in his home city of Brisbane in a public hospital.

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Fast Facts

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Event/s Skeet Men Nickname Paul

Height 185 Weight 98

Age 24 Born Toowoomba , QLD, Australia

Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

Rio will be Olympic debut

Recent Performances

17th (skeet) - ISSF World Cup (Baku, Azerbaijan)

11th (skeet) - ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

3rd (skeet) - 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

67th (skeet) - ISSF World Cup (Larnaca, Cyprus)

27th (skeet) - ISSF World Championships (Lonato, Italy)

Career Highlights

4th Place at World Cup Tuscon 2014

7th place at First World Champs 2013

Current Australian overall champion 3 years running

Education

Primary Mueller College (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Mueller College (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Nursing

Training

Coach Ian Mathieson (2002-current)

Club Brisbane Gun Club




Institute/Academy Queensland Academy of Sport

Primary Training Base Belmont, Brisbane

Q&A

Superstition/s Karma

Favourite food Thai

Favourite holiday destination Bahamas

Favourite music EDM

Dream car Lamborghini

Personal Motto "One at a Time"

Star Sign Gemini

I would spend my last $10 on Food

Tattoos/Piercings Left upper Chest with my motto "One at a Time" with IWM initials under for

grandfathers name.

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Fencing

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Usain Bolt

First Olympic Memory? Cathy Freeman winning 400m

Most In펏쐶uential person in your career/life Mum Why this sport? Something di倀ࠃerent and its fun to shoot things out of the sky

29/07/2016 Blake Blackburn | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Blake Blackburn

Athlete Biography

Pistol shooter Blake Blackburn will make his Olympic debut in Rio, a journey that started 12 years

earlier when he was 12 and began shooting with his grandparents.

Blackburn secured his 㽄鮦rst senior national title when he won the 10m air pistol event in Cessnock in

2014 to see him gain selection on his 㽄鮦rst Commonwealth Games Team.

He went on to compete in the 10m air pistol event in Glasgow. He scored a quali㽄鮦cation mark of

562 to see him miss out on the 㽄鮦nal and 㽄鮦nish in 14th. Australian teammate Daniel Repacholi went

on to win the gold in the event.

After a bronze and silver medal in the 2013 Oceania Championships he won his 㽄鮦rst Continental

Championship in 2015 after shooting a score of 196.8 in the 㽄鮦nal. The result followed his second

national title in the year.

From Newcastle, NSW he is a bartender and works under the guidance of the National High

Performance Coach Vladimir Galiabovitch.


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Event/s 10m Air Pistol Men Height 181

Weight 82 Age 23

Born Fair㽄鮦eld, NSW, Australia Lives Cessnock, NSW, Australia

Associated Olympians

Warren Potent

David Chapman

Lalita Yauhleuskaya

Mitchell Iles

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Career Highlights

Winning the Oceania Championships.

Winning the National Championships in 2014 and 2015

Qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Education

Primary Seven Hills West Srimary School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary Mount View High School (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of psychology - University of Newcastle

Training

Club Cessnock pistol club, nsw, australia

Primary Training Base Cessnock

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Favourite food Pork belly

Favourite holiday destination Gold Coast

Favourite music Country

Dream car 69 charger

Star Sign Leo

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Rugby Sevens

First Olympic Memory? Cathy Freeman at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Why this sport? It's a sport you can participate with your family.

29/07/2016 David Chapman | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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David Chapman

Athlete Biography

Pistol shooter David Chapman will line up at his third Olympic Games in Rio having also competed

at Sydney 2000 and London 2012. He won Australia’s Rio 2016 quota at the Oceania Championships

after shooting the minimum quali丿cation score and then claiming the bronze medal at the event.

Chapman competed at his 丿rst World Cup events in 1985 before giving up the competitive side of

the sport for over a decade after getting married. His return to the sport was well warranted when

he lined up at his home Olympic Games in 2000 where he 丿nished 20th in the 25m rapid pistol.

He made the 2006 Commonwealth Games Team where he won a silver medal in the 25m rapid air

pistol pairs event alongside Bruce Favell. Four years later in Delhi he won bronze in the same event

with Bruce Quick.

Chapman and his daughter Hayley made history at the London 2012 Games when they became the

丿rst father-daughter duo to compete for Australia at an Olympic Games.

He was Commonwealth Games Champion when he won the rapid 丿re event and set a new Games

record (23) in the 丿nal at the Glasgow 2014 Games. Consistent results throughout 2015 and the

start of 2016 saw him win selection for the 丿rst Games on South American soil in August.


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Event/s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Height 167

Weight 72 Age 51

Born Balaklava, SA, Australia Lives Hoyleton, SA, Australia


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James Willett

Keith Ferguson

Warren Potent

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Career Highlights

Winning 2014 Commonwealth Games gold

Shooting a personal best score of 587 at the Australia Cup in Brisbane in 2014.

Winning the 2016 National Champs.

Education

Primary Balaklava Primary School (SA, Australia)

Secondary Balaklava High School (SA, Australia)

Tertiary Associate Diploma in Farm Management - Roseworthy Agriculture College (1984 -

1986)

Training

Coach Alex Taransky

Club Balaklava Sports Shooting, SA

Primary Training Base At home ,Hoyleton, Australia

Secondary Training Base At Home


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Q&A

Favourite food Beef Roast and choc self saucing pudding

Star Sign Aries

I would spend my last $10 on Somebody else

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Archery

Most In狩uential person in your career/life Alex Taransky

Why this sport? Had success as a junior which fed my enthusiasm for winning. It was better than

losing in junior AFL

29/07/2016 Keith Ferguson | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Keith Ferguson

Athlete Biography

Skeet shooter Keith Ferguson will return to Olympic competition in Rio having made his Games

debut four years ago in London.

Ferguson was a late starter to the sport of shooting, taking it up at the age of 26, but has since

become one of Australia's leading skeet shooters having won a host of state, national and Oceania

medals.

A string of consistent results throughout 2011 and 2012 saw the Victorian shooter qualify for the

London 2012 Games. After the opening day of competition Ferguson shot 70/75 to sit in 12th

before 䱴䰨nishing shooting 46/50 to score 116 overall and miss the semi-䱴䰨nal by four targets.

Two years later he competed at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Ferguson shot 115/125

to miss the semi-䱴䰨nal by three targets.

Ferguson won the men’s skeet Olympic quota for Australia at the 2015 Oceania Championships. He

quali䱴䰨ed through to the 䱴䰨nal as the highest ranked athlete in both the quali䱴䰨cation and semi-䱴䰨nal

before shooting 15/15 in the 䱴䰨nal to claim his 䱴䰨rst continental title. He went on to claim the

Australian Championship and Commonwealth Championship to kick oꍅ蝇 the Olympic year in 䱴䰨ne

form.


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Fast Facts


Event/s Skeet Men Nickname Ferg


Age 36 Born Sale, VIC, Australia

Lives Sale, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 20th (skeet)

Recent Performances

10th (skeet) - ISSF World Cup (Baku, Azerbaijan)

27th (skeet) - ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

5th (skeet) – 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

28th (skeet) – ISSF Grand Prix (Doha, Qatar)

1st (skeet) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Qualifying and competing at the Olympic Games in 2012 and now in 2016.

Competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Winning Oceania gold in 2015.

Education

Primary Longford Primary School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Sale Secondary College (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Apprenticeship in Carpentry

Training

Coach Valeriy Timokhin




Club Frankston Australia Clay Target Club

Primary Training Base Frankston, Australia

Secondary Training Base Werribe, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Ravioli or Spaghetti

Favourite holiday destination Anywhere warm with good people

Favourite music Birds of Tokyo

Dream car Land Cruiser

Personal Motto There is always two sides to every story

Star Sign Virgo

I would spend my last $10 on Parma and beer

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be BMX racing

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Michael Diamond winning Gold at the 2000 Sydney

Olympics

First Olympic Memory? Russell Mark & Michael Diamond winning gold at Atlanta

Most Inꉁ脑uential person in your career/life My Mum

Why this sport? Growing up on a farm shooting was just something you were thought at a young

age.

29/07/2016 Elena Galiabovitch | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Elena Galiabovitch

Athlete Biography

Having competed on and o뇮柿 for the past decade, Elena Galiabovitch began to really knuckle down

in the sport just two years ago and is now o뇮柿 to her debut Olympic Games in Rio.

Born in Belarus, Galiabovitch moved to Australia when she was four to grow up in Melbourne. She

decided to give shooting a go after her parents met as a result of the sport.

She is coached by her father Vladimir Glaibovitch who is one of the nation’s leading instructors.

Galiabovitch won her 宗㷋rst Oceania title in the 25m pistol event in late 2015 and will compete in

both that event and the 10m air pistol in Rio.

She graduated to become a medical doctor in 2014 and began working in 2015 as an intern at

Eastern Health. She has now moved on to being a surgical resident at Melbourne's Monash Health.


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Event/s 10m Air Pistol Women, 25m Sport

Pistol Women

Nickname El

Height 177 Age 26

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Born Minsk, Belarus Lives Australia


Daniel Repacholi

Mitchell Iles

Jennifer Hens

Paul Adams

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Career Highlights


Education

Secondary St Michael's Grammar School (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Degree 1 - Bachelor of Biomedicine 2008-2010, University of Melbourne. Degree 2 -

Doctor of Medicine, 2011-2014, University of Melbourne

Training

Coach Vladimir Galiabovitch

Primary Training Base Melbourne

Q&A

Favourite holiday destination Anywhere I haven't yet been

Dream car 1989 Holden Barina

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Star Sign Scorpio

I would spend my last $10 on Co뇮柿ee

Tattoos/Piercings Ears pierced

Why this sport? My parents met through shooting so I gave it a go!

29/07/2016 Will Godward | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Will Godward

Athlete Biography

It will be back-to-back Olympic Games for Will Godward after the Queensland born, Adelaide based

riခe shooter put together a consistent run of qualifying performances. Godward 嵝嵝nished with

silver in the 50 metre riခe three positions and bronze in the 10m air riခe at the 2015 Oceania

Championships.

A relatively late starter to the sport, Godward began competing when he was 23 after his cousin

introduced him to shooting. Three years later he competed for Australia at the 2010

Commonwealth Games in Delhi where he 嵝嵝nished 12th in the individual 50m 3 position and 5th in

the pairs 50m 3 position with Ben Burge.

After winning three Olympic quotas for Australia at the 2011 Oceania Championships he went on

to make his Olympic debut in London. Lining up in the 10m air riခe, Godward 嵝嵝nished 40th with a

score of 588.

Outside of his shooting commitments Godward is a practising pianist who began playing at the age

of 7 and has played at the Adelaide Conservatorium of Music.


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Event/s 50m Riခe 3 Position Men Nickname Willy G


Age 32 Born Townsville, QLD, Australia

Lives St Ives, SA, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 40th (10m air riခe)

Recent Performances

26th (3P) - ISSF World Cup (Bangkok, Thailand)

2nd (3P) – 2015 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

3rd ( 3P) – 2016 Australia Cup 1 (Sydney, Australia)

2nd (3P) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia

3rd (3P) – 2015 Shooting Australia Grand Prix (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

2011 Oceania Gold Men's 3 position and Air riခe.

Setting a new personal best in Olympic Selection match in 2016

Commonwealth Games 2010

Education

Primary Port Side Christian School

Secondary Home Schooled

Training

Coach Self Coached ( 2013 - Current )

Club SSAA Moonta, Morialta Target Shooters

Primary Training Base Target Riခe South Australia

Secondary Training Base SSAA Moonta



Q&A

Favourite food Chicken Parmy

Favourite holiday destination Czech Republic Pilsen

Favourite music Coldplay, Keith Green.

Dream car Subaru WRX STI

Personal Motto I will always put God 嵝嵝rst in all aspects of my life, for without Him nothing is

possible. Matthew 19:26

Star Sign

I would spend my last $10 on Macca's run

Tattoos/Piercings Olympic Rings, right shoulder.

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Golf

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Eric Liddell 1924 Paris Olympics

First Olympic Memory? Seeing Michael Diamond win Gold at the 1996 Olympics

Most In沢�uential person in your career/life My Mum Why this sport? Because I wasn't good enough to play cricket for Australia :)

29/07/2016 Jennifer Hens | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Jennifer Hens

Athlete Biography

After breaking through to win her �rst Oceania Championship in late 2015 and secure Australia an

Olympic quota, riݯe shooter Jennifer Hens will get the chance to make her Olympic debut in Rio.

She began competing in the sport in 2008 and as quickly as 2010 she went to the World

Championships as a riݯe prone athlete. She �nished �rst in the elimination relay and went on to

�nish 63rd in the event.

Artist Hens competed at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. She shot 613.3 in the 50m riݯe prone

to claim 10th and just missed the �nal of the 10m air riݯe as she �nished 12th.

She set a personal and Australian women's air riݯe record in Munich IWK Air riݯe competition in

early 2015 (416.1 where she placed 10th and narrowly missed the �nal by 0.4 points.

Hens has a Masters in Teaching and is currently a secondary science teacher in a specialist English

School in Germany, where she is currently living and training.


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Event/s 10m Air Riݯe Women Nickname Schmetterling

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Age 29 Born Lithgow, NSW, Australia

Elena Galiabovitch

Mitchell Iles

Laetisha Scanlan

Career Highlights

Setting a personal best and Australian women's air riݯe record in Munich IWK Air riݯe

competition, January 2015.

Competing at the Commonwealth Games 2014

Finishing �rst in the elimination relay at the at the World Championships in 2010.

Education

Primary Mount Riverview Primary School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary Blaxland High School (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Masters of Teaching, Secondary, University of Western Sydney (2005-2010)

Training

Coach Petr Kurka (2009- current)

Club Springwood Smallbore and Air riݯe Inc.

Primary Training Base Fürth, Germany

Secondary Training Base Sydney, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Mango

Favourite holiday destination Austria

Favourite music Anything

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Dream car 2016 VW Beetle

Personal Motto It takes little e翿�ort to dream for success but e翿�ort and character to achieve it.

Star Sign Leo

I would spend my last $10 on Lipstick

Tattoos/Piercings

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Snowboard Halfpipe

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Torah Bright winning Vancover 2010 winter olympics,

women's halfpipe.

First Olympic Memory? Kierin Perkins 1500m win

Most Inݯuential person in your career/life My Dad- he introduced me to shooting. Why this sport? There is always the challenge to get the perfect shot.

29/07/2016 Mitchell Iles | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Mitchell Iles

Athlete Biography

At just 17 years and 133 days trap shooter Mitchell Iles will become Australia’s second youngest

ever shooting athlete to compete at an Olympic Games. Only Rio 2016 teammate Aislin Jones will

be younger.

Iles 䇧�rst started shooting when he was 12 after his grandfather and he followed his grandfather,

Australian shooting legend Bill, into the sport. He went on to compete at his 䇧�rst Australian

Championships in early 2015 where he won the junior event after just four months in the trap

discipline.

At his 䇧�rst Junior World Championships in 2015 Iles shot a quali䇧�cation score of 114/125 to reach

the 䇧�nal and eventually 䇧�nish 䇧�fth in Lonato, Italy.

Since November, Iles has hit two world class quali䇧�cation scores of 122/125 and one of 121/125 to

prove he can match it with the best trap shooting has to o㼫㈯er.

He highlighted his unique talent when he won the 2014 ZZ World Championship (simulated pigeon

shooting) having not participated in it before. Although he wasn’t overly keen on competing in the

event, his grandfather Bill encouraged him to and went on to become the youngest ever winner of

the event.


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Event/s Trap Men Height 178

Age 17 Born Carlton, VIC, Australia

Lives Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

23rd - 2016 ISSF World Cup (San Marino, San Marino)

2nd - Australia Cup 2 (Adelaide, South Australia)

4th - Qatar Open (Doha, Qatar)

5th - 2015 Junior World Championships (Lonato, Italy)

4th – 2015 ISSF Junior Cup (Suhl, Germany)

Career Highlights

Qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Winning the Hellis ZZ Shooting 2014 World Championships - simulated pigeon shooting

Winning the New Zealand National single barrel and points score Championshiops

Education

Primary Hurstbridge Primary School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Diamond Valley College (VIC, Australia)

Training

Coach Billy Iles (2011 - current)

Club Melbourne Gun Club





Q&A

Favourite food Italian

Favourite holiday destination USA

Favourite music AC/DC

Dream car Camaro

Star Sign Aries


If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Tennis

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Michael Diamond winning 2000 to defend gold

First Olympic Memory? Steven Bradbury

Most In㼫㈯uential person in your career/life Billy Iles

Why this sport? Followed my grandfather into the sport

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Aislin Jones

Athlete Biography

In Rio, Aislin Jones will become Australia’s youngest shooting athlete to ever compete at an

Olympic Games. Jones will be 16 years and 179 days when the Rio 2016 Games commence, seeing

her surpass the previous youngest in Anne Marie Forder who was 18 years old when she competed

in the 1996 Olympic Games. (She then proceeded to 2000 where she won a bronze medal in

women’s air pistol.)

After showing initial potential in simulated 䘀쐂eld shooting, Jones switched to skeet shooting in

2012 after encouragement from, and coaching by, Lauryn Mark, who 䘀쐂nished fourth in Women's

Skeet at the 2004 Athens Games.

Jones competed at her 䘀쐂rst international events in 2015. She debuted internationally by taking on

the best juniors in the world in the ISSF Junior Cup. She immediately highlighted her talent on the

range, shooting 69/75 to narrowly miss being top quali䘀쐂er and 䘀쐂nished sixth having achieved her

Olympic Minimum Qualifying Score. She went on to place 23rd at the 2015 Junior World

Championships in Lonato, Italy. She rounded out the year as top quali䘀쐂er into the 䘀쐂nals at the

Oceania Championships equaling the Oceania Region ISSF Women's Skeet record of 71/75 while

setting a new Oceania Junior Women’s Skeet record.

In January 2016, Jones became the youngest woman to win the Australian National Skeet

Championship at 15, just 12 months after her national debut. Soon after she headed to Qatar

where she quali䘀쐂ed fourth and 䘀쐂nished eighth overall in the 2016 Qatar Open.

Jones learned to shoot at moving targets in a quarry with her Dad winding cans along the ground

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Event/s Skeet Women Height 157

Weight 51 Age 16

Born Shepparton, VIC, Australia Lives Lakes Entrance, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information

Rio 2016 will be Olympic debut

Recent Performances

8th (skeet) – ISSF World Cup (Baku, Azerbaijan)

1st (skeet) – 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

8th (skeet) – ISSF Grand Prix (Doha, Qatar)

1st (skeet) – 2016 ACTA Shotgun National Championships (Brisbane, Australia)

3rd (skeet) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights


Shooting 71/75 at the Oceania Continental Championships and getting my 䘀쐂rst record - ISSF

Junior Women's Skeet Oceania Record - and equaling the ISSF Women's Skeet Oceania Record

at the same time. I then repeated a week later.

Winning my 䘀쐂rst ISSF National Women's Skeet Championship in January 2016.

Education

Primary Lakes Entrance Primary School (Vic, Australia)

Secondary Nagle College, Bairnsdale (Vic, Australia) - currently in Year 10





Training

Coach Lauryn Mark 2012-current (personal coach), Valeriy Timokhin 2015-current (National

Coach)

Club Bairnsdale Field & Game Club & Bairnsdale Clay Target Club

Primary Training Base Bairnsdale, Victoria

Q&A

Favourite food Homemade mango & pineapple smoothies

Favourite holiday destination Cape Levique, north of Broome WA

Favourite music Current chart music like Lush Life & 1955, and artists like Taylor Swift & Meghan

Trainor

Dream car Toyota RAV 4 or a Subaru Forester

Personal Motto Dream Big!

Star Sign Aquarius

I would spend my last $10 on something tasty

Tattoos/Piercings Not yet...

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Volleyball

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Kimberley Rhode winning gold at London in Women's

Skeet

First Olympic Memory? The Size 0 Sydney Olympic Tshirt in my cupboard from the year I was born

Most In䘀uential person in your career/life My parents, and my coach Lauryn Mark Why this sport? Because it's never boring and I love breaking clay targets

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Warren Potent

Athlete Biography

Olympic bronze medallist and 2014 World Champion Warren Potent will make his 饁fth straight

appearance at an Olympic Games in Rio having 饁rst taken up the sport as a 16-year-old in 1978. The

ri✈震e shooter competed at his 饁rst National Championships in 1980 and went on to win the 50m

prone teams event at the 1986 World Championships in East Germany.

After just missing out on selection for the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and then taking a break

from 1990-97, Potent made his debut Olympic appearance just down the road from where he grew

up in Sydney’s west. He 饁nished 19th in the 50m prone event before claiming 42nd four years later

at the Athens 2004 Games.

Heading into the Beijing 2008 Games Potent equalled the world record mark of 704.8 across

elimination and 饁nal rounds to highlight his credentials as a medal contender and shooting his

third Games Potent didn’t disappoint. He shot a quali饁cation score of 595, four points o汇꺈 the lead,

before shooting the highest score in the 饁nal to move from fourth to third to claim the bronze

medal.

A silver and bronze medal followed in the 50m prone individual and pairs event at the 2010

Commonwealth Games in the same year he again shot a perfect 600 quali饁cation score. Potent

went on to compete at his fourth Games in London but couldn’t match his Beijing heroics 饁nishing

32nd in 2012.

Potent became Australia’s FIRST ri✈震e shooting world champion in 2014 when he claimed victory in

Granada, Spain. The result saw him secure Australia’s 饁rst quota in the sport for the Rio Olympics

before strong performances in the selection events ensured he would again wear the green and

gold on the Olympic stage. A silver medal at the World Cup event in Bangkok in early 2016 proves

he still has the form to stand on another Olympic podium.


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Event/s 50m Ri✈震e Prone Men Nickname Wazza


Age 54 Born Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Lives Sydney, NSW, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 32nd (50m prone) 2008 Beijing - 3rd (50m prone) 2004 Athens - 42nd (50m

prone) 2000 Sydney - 19th (50m prone)

Recent Performances

2nd (50m) - 2016 ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

2nd (50m) - 2016 ISSF World Cup (Bangkok, Thailand)

1st (50m) – 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

1st (50m) – 2016 Australia Cup 1 (Sydney, Australia)

4th (50m) – 2016 ISSF World Cup Final (Munich, Germany)

Career Highlights

Winning the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Winning the 2014 World Championships in Spain

Winning Commonwealth Games gold in 2014.

Education

Primary Hill Top Primary School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary Greystanes High School (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Production Engineering - Granville TAFE (1979 - 1983)





Training

Coach Petr Kurka (2009 - current)

Club Legion, NSW Australia

Institute/Academy NSWIS

Primary Training Base Sydney, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Thai

Favourite holiday destination Thailand

Favourite music Rock

Dream car Aston Martin

Personal Motto Have a go

Star Sign Aries

I would spend my last $10 on My wife

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Tennis, if I was younger!

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Too many to list!

First Olympic Memory? Watching Shane Gould on TV competing at the 1972 Olympics.

Most In紁uential person in your career/life Ken Asquith in my sport. My wife in my life.

Why this sport? After trying a lot of sports, I found I was OK at shooting.

29/07/2016 Daniel Repacholi | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Daniel Repacholi

Athlete Biography

The big man of Australian shooting, Daniel Repacholi will hit the range in Rio for his fourth Olympic

Games. Standing at 202cm tall, he helped Australia win one of the three men’s pistol quotas

available after claiming the 50m pistol title at the 2015 Oceania Championships. The gold in Sydney

was his seventh continental title with his ††rst coming 14 years earlier in 2001.

He burst onto the scene when he claimed each of the junior national pistol records in 2000. Four

years later he made his Olympic debut at Athens 2004 when he ††nished 36th in the 10m air pistol

and 23rd in the 50m air pistol events. International success wasn’t far away when he went on to win

gold alongside David Moore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 50m pistol pairs and bronze

in the 10m pistol pairs.

Repacholi then lined up for the Australian Team at the Beijing 2008 Games where he ††nished 31st

and 40th in the 10m and 50m pistol events. Two years on he secured his ††rst Commonwealth

Games individual medal when he won bronze in the 10m air pistol in Delhi.

A consistent run of form throughout 2011 and the start of 2012 saw him secure selection to his

third Olympic team for the London 2012 Games. He secured his best results to date at an Olympic

Games ††nishing 19th in the 50m air pistol and 28th in the 10m air pistol.

Repacholi won individual gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 10m air pistol while also

securing bronze in the 50m air pistol. He claimed both events at the Australia Cup 1 and 2 events in

early 2016 to have him in strong form leading as Rio draws closer.


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Event/s 10m Air Pistol Men, 50m Free Pistol

Men

Height 202

Weight 128 Age 34

Born Melbourne, VIC, Australia Lives Nulkaba, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 28th (10m air pistol), 19th (50m air pistol) 2008 Beijing - 31st (10m air pistol),

40th (50m air pistol) 2004 Athens - 36th (10m air pistol), 23rd (50m air pistol)

Recent Performances

51st (10m) 2016 ISSF World Cup (Baku, Azerbaijan)

48th (50m) 2016 ISSF World Cup (Munich, Germany)

51st (50m) 2016 ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

8th (50m) 2016 ISSF World Cup (Bangkok, Thailand)

2nd (10m) 1st (50m) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Winning gold in the 10m air pistol pairs event and bronze in 50m free pistol pairs event at the

2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne

Bronze in 10 metre air pistol at Delhi Commonwealth Games

Gold in 10m air pistol and bronze in 50 meter pistol at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Education

Primary Melton South Primary School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Wilson Park Secondary College (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Quali††ed Tool Maker




Training

Coach Vladimir Galiabovitch (2012 - current)

Institute/Academy Nswis

Primary Training Base Cessnock, NSW, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Italian

Favourite holiday destination Fiji and anywhere I go with my beautiful wife and 2 little girls

Favourite music Grunge

Dream car Ford F650

Personal Motto Big is beautiful

Star Sign Taurus

I would spend my last $10 on Something for my girls

Tattoos/Piercings Olympic Rings, upper back - middle, with the Southern Cross incorporated

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Basketball

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Inspired by Team Welcome Ceremony where you see all the

magic moments of Australian athletes

First Olympic Memory? Watching the arrow getting shot to light the Olympic ††ame at Barcelona

Most In建瘗uential person in your career/life Mum and dad with out them I wouldn't be were I am

now

Why this sport? My family was involved in shooting so I took it up from their encouragement

29/07/2016 Jack Rossiter | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Jack Rossiter

Athlete Biography

Jack Rossiter will become one of Australia’s youngest ever shooters to compete at the Olympic

Games when the 19-year-old hits the Rio 2016 range.

He broke onto the scene when he claimed both the junior and senior 10m air riꇎ�e titles at the 2013

Oceania Championships setting a new ꏻ�nals record score in the process.

At just 17 Rossiter competed at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Contesting the 10m air

riꇎ�e, Rossiter scored a qualiꏻ�cation score of 611.9 to miss the ꏻ�nal by just two points and end up

claiming tenth.

Rossiter made it back-to-back 10m air riꇎ�e titles at the Oceania Championships when he led from

start to ꏻ�nish to just hold o懶 Rio 2016 teammate Dane Sampson. In doing so he managed to break

his own ꏻ�nals record and secure an Olympic quota in the event for Australia.

Rossiter began 2016 with two gold medals at the Pilzen Grand Prix to highlight his credentials

against international competition.


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Event/s 10m Air Riꇎ�e Men Height 171

Weight 70 Age 19

Born Medindie, SA, Australia Lives Australia


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Will Godward

Adam Vella

David Chapman

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Career Highlights

Setting the Australian record in the ꏻ�nal of the 10m Air Riꇎ�e in Brisbane in 2014.

Representing Australia in Men's 10m Air Riꇎ�e at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Representing Australia in the Junior Men's 10m Air Riꇎ�e at the World Championships in

Granada, Spain, 2014

Education

Primary Woodcroft College, South Australia, Australia

Secondary Woodcroft College, South Australia, Australia - completed Y12 2015

Tertiary Batchelor of Sport, Health & Physical Activity, Flinders University - deferred til 2017

Training


Club Reynella Smallbore & Air Riꇎ�e Club

Institute/Academy Shooting Australia

Primary Training Base Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Secondary Training Base Sydney, New South Wales, Australia



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Q&A

Favourite food Schnitzel

Favourite holiday destination Spain

Favourite music Tupac

Dream car Batmobile

Star Sign Gemini

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Curling

Most In귤uential person in your career/life My mum

Why this sport? I ꏻ�nd it enjoyable and challenging

29/07/2016 Dane Sampson | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Dane Sampson

Athlete Biography

Having cemented his position in recent years as one of the nation’s leading ri᠘㸾e shooters, Dane

Sampson will line up at his second Olympic Games in Rio.

Sampson followed in his parents footsteps when he took up shooting at the age of 12. Long having

dreamed of representing Australia at the Olympics, he made his Games debut in London where he

㜷㜷nished 37th in the 50m ri᠘㸾e 3 position, 48th in the 50m ri᠘㸾e prone, 42nd in the 10m air ri᠘㸾e.

The Queenslander competed at his 㜷㜷rst Commonwealth Games in 2014 where he made the 㜷㜷nals in

each of the three ri᠘㸾e events. His best result came in the 50m ri᠘㸾e prone where he placed fourth as

teammate Warren Potent won the gold.

Sampson secured Australia’s quota in the ri᠘㸾e 3 position competition after winning the Oceania

Championships in late 2015. In a strong showing he also claimed the 50m ri᠘㸾e prone event at the

site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

He started 2016 positive results on the international circuit scoring two top-20 performances at

the 2016 Pilzen Grand Prix before narrowly missing the 㜷㜷nal of the 50m ri᠘㸾e prone at the World

Cup event in Bangkok.


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Event/s 10m Air Ri᠘㸾e Men, 50m Ri᠘㸾e 3

Position Men, 50m Ri᠘㸾e Prone Men

Nickname Dano


Age 29 Born Sydney, NSW, Australia

Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London 42nd (10m air ri᠘㸾e); 48th (50 prone ri᠘㸾e); 37th (3P)

Recent Performances

33rd (10m), 28th (50m) - ISSF World Cup (Munich, Germany)

39th (10m), 50th (3P) - ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

13th (10m), 30th (3P), 35th (50m) - ISSF World Cup (Bangkok, Thailand)

1st (10m air ri᠘㸾e), 1st (3P), 1st (50m prone) - 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

2nd (10m air ri᠘㸾e), 1st (3P), 2nd (50m prone) - 2016 Australia Cup 1 (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Qualifying for my 㜷㜷rst Olympic Games in London, 2012.

3rd in 3position at GP of Plzen 2012.

Qualifying for my second Olympic games.

Education

Primary Coominya Primary School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Lowood State High School (QLD, Australia)

Training


Club Commerical

Institute/Academy QAS

Primary Training Base Adelaide, Australia




Secondary Training Base Brisbane , Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Cheese and wine

Favourite holiday destination Sweden, or anywhere I haven't been before with amazing landscape

scenery

Favourite music Alternative

Dream car Ferrari F58

Personal Motto live a story worth telling.

Star Sign Leo

I would spend my last $10 on Dinner

Tattoos/Piercings Olympic Rings

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Rowing or ice hockey

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Kieren Perkins breakings 15mins in 1500m swim

First Olympic Memory? Watching the 1996 Olympics on tv

Most In鄀ꈀuential person in your career/life Father

Why this sport? I was brought up in it and it is full of amazing interesting people

29/07/2016 Laetisha Scanlan | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Laetisha Scanlan

Athlete Biography

Laetisha Scanlan will make her Olympic debut when she lines up at Rio 2016 in the trap, having just

missed out on qualifying for the London Games - despite shooting an Australian record 74/75

targets midway through 2012.

She won her 倀茂rst World Cup in 2013 when she took out the Al Ain event in the UAE and has gone

from strength-to-strength since. The following year saw Scanlan secure three top-10 倀茂nishes on

the 2014 World Cup circuit which included winning World Cup gold in Tucson, USA.

Having won 2010 Commonwealth Games trap pairs gold in Delhi she returned to win individual

gold at Glasgow 2014. Scanlan bene倀茂ted by the new rules that will make their Olympic debut in Rio

which see scores reset for the 倀茂nal and gold and bronze medal playo倀ࠃs. Scanlan was 倀茂ve points

behind teammate Catherine Skinner after the quali倀茂cation round but shot 14 of 16 targets to make

the gold medal match where she won by a single shot.

Scanlan secured the second available women’s trap quota for Australia when she won silver at the

2015 Acapulco World Cup in Mexico. She just missed out on a medal at the 2015 World

Championships. Having progressed through to the 倀茂nals with a score of 70/75 she scored 10/15 to

just miss the bronze medal match.

O倀ࠃ the range Scanlan has completed a degree in journalism and is an ambassador for the Bully

Zero Australia Foundation.


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Event/s Trap Women Nickname teash


Age 26 Born Oakley, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information

Rio 2016 will be Olympic debut

Recent Performances

4th (trap) - 2016 ISSF World Cup (Baku, Azerbaijan)

6th (trap) - 2016 ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

9th (trap) - 2016 ISSF World Cup (Nicosia, Cyprus)

3rd (trap) – 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

5th (trap) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Shooting 74 of 75 targets to claim the Australian record and get within 1 target of the world

record in Perth, 2012.

Commonwealth Games Gold in Glasgow, Scotland 2014

Multiple World Cup winner

Education

Primary St Margarets School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Haileybury College (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) - Monash University (2008 - 2010)

Training

Coach Valeriy Timohkin (2008 - current)




Club Frankston Australian Gun Club

Institute/Academy Victorian Institute of Sport

Primary Training Base Melbourne, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Pasta

Favourite holiday destination Greek Islands

Favourite music Pop

Dream car Maserati

Personal Motto I believe that everything happens for a reason. And hard work pays o倀ࠃ.

Star Sign Aries


Tattoos/Piercings ears pierced If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Modern pentathlon

29/07/2016 Catherine Skinner | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Catherine Skinner

Athlete Biography

Having taken up the sport when she was 12, Catherine Skinner will get the chance to wear the

green and gold at an Olympic Games in Rio after establishing herself as one of the world’s leading

trap shooters in recent years.

She began shooting in 2006 and competed in her 耀�rst junior World Cup event soon after. She broke

through to win a junior World Cup silver medal at the Munich event in 2010 and progressed onto

the senior World Cup circuit a year later.

Skinner claimed Australia’s only shooting medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade when she won

trap gold in Kazan, Russia. In what was an impressive year for the Victorian, Skinner also won two

silver medals at World Cup events in Nicosia, Greece and Al Ain, UAE. She would return at the 2015

Summer Universiade as the Australian 耀�ag bearer to win bronze.

She continued her strong form throughout 2014 to see her 耀�nish with bronze at World Cup events

in Granada and Tucson setting her up for a big World Championships in Gabala. Skinner quali耀�ed

through to the 耀�nal shooting 72/75 and despite narrowly missing the gold medal match she went

on to claim bronze and secure Australia a quota for Rio 2016 in the event.

The year also saw Skinner make her Commonwealth Games debut at Glasgow 2014. After

qualifying for the semi-耀�nals as the highest ranked shooter she just missed the bronze medal

match in a shoot-o耀�. Teammate, both in Glasgow and now at Rio 2016, Laetisha Scanlan went on to

win gold.


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Event/s Trap Women Nickname Cat


Age 26 Born Mans耀�eld, VIC, Australia

Lives East Melbourne, VIC, Australia


Will Godward

Warren Potent

Blake Blackburn

Adam Vella

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Career Highlights

Finishing third at the 2014 World Championships in Granada to secure Australia an Olympic

quota for Rio 2016

Coming second in Junior Trap at World Championships in Munich 2010.

Winning gold in the trap at the 2013 World Universiade in Kazan

Education

Primary Mans耀�eld Primary School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Firbank Grammar (VIC, Australia) Mans耀�eld Secondary School (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Chemical Engineering - RMIT (2008 - 2015)

Training




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Coach Greg Chan (2006 - 2007), Valeriy Timokhin (2008 - current)

Club Melbourne Gun Club, and Frankston Clay Target Club

Institute/Academy VIS

Primary Training Base Melbourne, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s One pint of Ben and Jerrys Tripe Caramel Choc Chunk for dinner before

competition, and PB the next day.

Favourite food Berry Wa耀�es

Favourite holiday destination Somewhere adventerous.

Dream car Aston Martin DB9

Personal Motto Keep Going.

Star Sign Aquarius

I would spend my last $10 on Chocolate

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Fencing

First Olympic Memory? Looking at the medal tally of the Atlanta Olympics and thinking

"Shooting? Who does shooting?"

Most In쏄‴uential person in your career/life My father Why this sport? I got into the sport and kind of rolled with it.

29/07/2016 Adam Vella | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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Adam Vella

Athlete Biography

Olympic bronze medallist, World Champion and multiple Commonwealth Games Champion – Adam

Vella has just about done it all in trap shooting. Born and raised in Melbourne, Vella took up the

sport when he was 13 and has since become one of the nation’s most decorated shooters.

Teaming up with fellow Australian shooting royalty in Michael Diamond and Russell Mark, the trio

won the trap teams event at the 1999 World Championships. He went on to win gold with Diamond

in the pairs event and silver in the individual event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games before

defending his pairs gold four years later in Delhi. Vella secured individual trap gold at the 2014

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

He was ranked as the world’s top trap shooter in 2003, a feat he also achieved in 2007, and went

into the Athens 2004 Games as one of the medal favourites. Having qualiꌄ輚ed in equal fourth with a

score of 121-125, he shot 24/25 in the ꌄ輚nal to secure a place on the Olympic podium.

Having missed out on competing at the Beijing 2008 Games by a single target, Vella returned to

Olympic competition in 2012 in London where he shot 119/125 to miss the ꌄ輚nal by three targets.

He qualiꌄ輚ed Australia’s quota for the sport at the 2015 Oceania Championships in Sydney and after

a strong build-up to Rio will compete at his fourth Olympic Games in the green and gold.

When he is not competing Vella runs his own shooting range that o䈐䓒ers recreational shooters to

try out and potentially take up the sport. Along with Vella, fellow Rio 2016 athlete Laetisha Scanlan

is one of the Oz Shooting instructors.


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Event/s Trap Men Height 178

Weight 92 Age 45

Born Melbourne, VIC, Australia Lives Keilor, VIC, Australia


Paul Adams

Mitchell Iles

Jennifer Hens

Warren Potent

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Career Highlights

Winning Olympic bronze in 2004

Winning four Commonwealth Games gold medals

World number one on three occasions - 2003 (Trap), 2003 (Double Trap), 2007 (Trap)

Education

Primary Springvale Sth Primary

Secondary Keysborough Technical College

Training

Coach Valery Timokhin (2006 - current)

Institute/Academy Victorian Institute of Sport













Primary Training Base Frankston Australian Clay Target Club

Q&A

Favourite food Pasta

Favourite holiday destination Anywhere there is a beach

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Cathy Freeman's Gold medal race

29/07/2016 James Willett | AUS Team | Rio 2016

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James Willett

Athlete Biography

At just 20 years of age, James Willet has enjoyed a rapid rise in the sport. While he began shooting

when he was 12, he only began the double trap discipline at the beginning of 2015 and has

upstaged many of his more fancied rivals around the world during his opening year in the sport.

Having to commute over three hours to Werribee to train, Willett and his father Arthur built a

shooting range at their farm in Corowa near the NSW/VIC border.

Willett showed his potential to match it with the world’s best when he set a Junior World Record in

qualifying with 142/150 targets at his ††rst ever World Cup event. He then shot 23/30 targets to

narrowly miss out on the bronze medal match.

He went on to compete at his ††rst World Championships in the sport in 2015 opting to compete in

the senior event despite still being a junior. Willett quali††ed for the ††nal in equal third with a score

of 139/150. Willett then quali††ed for the bronze medal match where he lined up against Kuwait’s

Ahmad Alafasi. Both shooters shot 24/30 before Alafasi won the shoot-oဠ†.

He won the double trap quota for Australia at the Oceania Championships when he shot 135/150 in

qualifying before going 28/30 and 29/30 before claiming his ††rst World Cup victory when he won

the Rio 2016 test event.


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Weight 88 Age 20

Born Yarrawonga, VIC, Australia Lives Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

4th (double trap) – ISSF World Cup (San Marino)

1st (double trap) – ISSF World Cup (Rio, Brazil)

3rd (double trap) – ISSF World Cup (Nicosia,Cyprus)

2nd (double trap) – 2016 Australia Cup 2 (Sydney, Australia)

1st (double trap) – 2015 Oceania Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

ISSF World Cup Double Trap Bronze in 2016 in Nicosia, Cyprus

Claiming fourth at the 2015 ISSF World Championships in Men's Double Trap at Lonato, Italy

Winner of the 2015 Oceania Championships in Men's Double Trap at Sydney, NSW

Education

Primary Corowa Primary School, NSW, Australia

Secondary Corowa High School, NSW, Australia

Training

Coach Graeme Boyd (2009-Current) Russell Mark (2014-Current)

Club Deniliquin Clay Target Club, NSW

Institute/Academy NSWIS




Primary Training Base Home on the Farm, Mulwala, NSW

Secondary Training Base Werribee, Vic

Q&A

Favourite food Steak

Favourite holiday destination America

Favourite music Country

Dream car Chevrolet silverado

Personal Motto Never Give Up

Star Sign Capricorn

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Michael Diamond winning back to back Gold in 1996 and

2000

Most Inƽuential person in your career/life My Dad

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Lalita Yauhleuskaya

Athlete Biography

Pistol shooter Lalita Yauleuskaya will make her sixth Olympic Games appearance (fourth for

Australia) at Rio 2016. The former Belarussian pistol shooter automatically quali††ed for Rio after

winning one of the selection events in a benchmark score. Her quali††cation score of 585 would put

her well in contention for a medal in Rio.

Making her Olympic debut in 1996 for Belarus, she won a bronze medal in the 25m air pistol at the

Sydney 2000 Games. Becoming an Australian citizen in 2001, she represented Australia at Athens

2004 where she claimed 21st and 10th in the 10m and 25m air pistol events. Four years later in

Beijing she claimed 14th and 18th in the same events.

She secured silver for her adopted country at the 2010 World Championship before making her

††fth Games appearance in London where she ††nished 40th (10m) and 17th (25m).

Yauleuskaya made her ††rst Commonwealth Games appearance in 2002 where she won three gold

medals for Australia. In total she has won seven gold, a silver and two bronze medals at Manchester

2002, Melbourne 2006, Delhi 2010 and Glasgow 2014.


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Event/s 10m Air Pistol Women, 25m Sport

Pistol Women

Nickname Lola


Age 52 Born Sokol, Belarus

Lives Melbourne, VIC, Australia


Mitchell Iles

Warren Potent

Keith Ferguson

Catherine Skinner

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Career Highlights

Winning bronze at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Qualifying for my sixth Olympic Games in Rio

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