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| Full name | Bryan Kenneth Wilson | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1962-09-26)26 September 1962 (age 63) Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10 m running target (10RT) 50 m running target (50RT) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Sporting Shooters Association[1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bryan Kenneth Wilson (born 26 September 1962 inMelbourne) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He has competed for Australia in running target shooting at four Olympics (1984, 1988, 1996, and 2004), and has produced a phenomenal record of eleven medals in a major international competition: spanning theCommonwealth Games and the Oceanian Championships.[1] Wilson is a full-fledged member of the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia.[1]
Wilson made his first ever Australian team at the1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, finishing seventeenth in the 50 m running target with a score of 564 points.[3]
In 1988, Wilson won his first ever gold medal at the Oceanian Championships that culminated in his selection to the Australian team at his succeeding Games inSeoul 1988, but slumped to a distant twenty-second in a 23-shooter field of his pet event after faring poorly with 282 on the fast run, posting a qualifying score of 573.[1][4]
Despite missing his 1992 Olympic bid, Wilson cracked a new meet record of 657.9 to successfully claim his first and only short-distance running target title at the1994 Commonwealth Games inVictoria, British Columbia, Canada, mounting a charge in the final with a superb 1.9-point lead over the crowd favourite Mark Bedlington.[5] On his third Olympic appearance inAtlanta two years later, Wilson tied for eighteenth with North Korea'sKim Man-chol in the10 m running target, outwitting the young US shooter Adam Saathoff, who finished dead last in the field, by five points.[6]
Although Wilson was not selected to the Australian squad inSydney 2000, he had capped off a remarkable eight-year comeback for his fourth Games by beating Adam Gitsman at the national trials to fill in the Olympic quota place for his country that the latter had won from the Oceanian Championships a year earlier.[7][8] At the2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Wilson marked 275 on the slow and a 269 on the fast run to round out the 19-shooter field of themen's 10 m running target in last place, finishing with a total score of 544 points.[9]
| Event | 1984 | 1988 | 1996 | 2004 |
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| 50-metre running target | 17th 564 | 21st 573 | Not held | |
| 10 metre running target | Not held | 18th 560 | 19th 544 | |
