James Paton (sport shooter)
| Medal record | ||
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| Shooting | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | Queen's Prize individual |
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | Queen's Prize pairs |
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2014 Glasgow | Queen's Prize individual |
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2014 Glasgow | Queen's Prize pairs |
| Commonwealth Shooting Championships | ||
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1997 Kualu Lumpur | Queen's prize individual |
James Paton (born 24 May 1957 in Newcastle[1]) is a sport shooter from Canada.
At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur he won the fullbore rifle event.[2]
The following year at the 1998 Commonwealth Games (also in Kuala Lumpur) he won the gold medal in the fullbore rifle open individual event and silver in the pairs event (with Alain Marion).[3]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he won silver medals in the fullbore rifle individual and pairs events (this time with Desmond Vamplew).[4]
In 2005, he won the Queen's Prize at the NRA Imperial Meeting at Bisley, matching the record score of 300.40v.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Glasgow 2014 profile
- ^ "Canadian shooter wins gold". The StarPhoenix. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Hollinger International. 28 November 1997. p. 25.
James Paton of Canada won the gold medal in the men's full-bore rifle event in the Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medal Winners". Canoe.ca. Canoe.ca. 21 September 1998. Archived from the original on December 3, 1998. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Hossain, Asif (26 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games: Bezzoubenko bags golden hat-trick". Olympic.ca. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ^ "NRA 136th Imperial Meeting H.M. Queen's Prize, Stage III" (PDF). nra.org.uk. National Rifle Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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