Diane Swanton (born August 11, 1979, in

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

) is a South African sport shooter. She won the gold medal for trap shooting at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

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, with a games record of 72 points. Swanton also received a qualifying place for the Olympics by capturing the gold in the same category at the 2007 ISSF African Shooting Championships in

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, defeating Namibia's Gaby Ahrens. At age twenty-nine, Swanton made her official debut for 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 ...

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, where she competed in women's trap shooting. She placed seventeenth out of twenty shooters in the qualifying rounds, behind Great Britain's

Charlotte Kerwood Charlotte Hollands ( née Kerwood, born 15 September 1986) is a British sports shooter. She won her first Commonwealth Gold medal at the age of 15 at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. In 2015 World Championship, she was part of the British team that ...

by one target, with a total score of 57 points. Swanton is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in

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, and is coached and trained by her father Tim Swanton.

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South African female sport shooters Living people Olympic shooters for South Africa Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Pretoria 1979 births Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting 21st-century South African women Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-sportshooting-bio-stub