David Tarrant (1935/1936 – 2018) was a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in sport shooting. Tarrant lived in Christchurch. At the age of 31, a fall from a tree left him a paraplegic. He set up a shooting range across his living room with the target hooked into the stairs. At the Australian national paraplegic games in 1979 he won a gold medal and set a world record in the air pistol event with a score of 363 out of a possible 400. At the

1980 Summer Paralympics The 1980 Summer Paralympics ( nl, Paralympische Zomerspelen 1980), branded as the Olympics for the Disabled, were the sixth Summer Paralympic Games. They were held in Arnhem, Netherlands, from 21 to 30 June 1980. Background The Soviet Union, h ...

in Arnhem, he won a bronze medal in the Mixed Air Pistol 2-5 event. He died in 2018.

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* * 1930s births 2018 deaths Sportspeople from Christchurch New Zealand male sport shooters Paralympic shooters for New Zealand Shooters at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for New Zealand {{NewZealand-Paralympic-medalist-stub