Alistair Davis (born 1 December 1992) is a retired South African sport shooter.
He won a gold medal in the men's double trap at the 2011 African Shooting Championships in
Rabat, Morocco, with a total score of 182 targets, earning him a spot on the South African team for the Olympics.
Davis is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in
Pretoria
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, and is coached and trained by his father Frank Davis.
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Davis represented ]South Africa
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at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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in London
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, where he competed as the nation's lone shooter in the men's double trap. He scored a total of 132 targets in the qualifying rounds, one point behind Chinese shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Hu Binyuan
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, finishing in fifteenth place—the highest finish at the Olympics by a South African in clay target categories.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1992 births
Living people
South African male sport shooters
Trap and double trap shooters
Olympic shooters for South Africa
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Pretoria
South African people of British descent
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