Craig Henwood (born 10 December 1978 in
Melbourne,
Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter. He won a gold medal for the men's trap shooting at the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships in
Brisbane, accumulating a score of 143 clay pigeons.
Henwood is a member of the Melbourne Gun Club, and is coached and trained by his father Jack Henwood.
Henwood represented
Australia
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
in
Beijing, where he competed in the
men's trap shooting, along with his teammate and five-time Olympian
Michael Diamond. He scored a total of 109 clay pigeons in the preliminary rounds of the event, by one point ahead of Egypt's
Adham Medhat
Adham Medhat ( ar, ادهم مدحت; born May 30, 1975) is an Egyptian sport shooter. At age thirty-three, Medhat made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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, finishing only in thirty-first place.
In November 2020, Henwood was elected to the board of Shooting Australia replacing the retiring Alan Smith
References
External links
Profile – Australian Olympic Team
Australian male sport shooters
Trap and double trap shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters for Australia
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Melbourne
1978 births
21st-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
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