Gavin Ben Sutherland (born 26 June 1979) is a Zimbabwean competitive

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. He became the first archer to represent

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in an Olympic tournament since the late Wrex Tarr's appearance in Seoul twenty-eight years earlier, finishing as the fifth recurve male at the 2016 African Championships in

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to secure the country's Olympic berth for

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. Currently residing in the

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, Sutherland trains at an upscale archery range in downtown

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, under the tutelage of his coach Gary Kinghorn. Sutherland was selected by the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee to compete in the men's individual recurve at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Heading to the knockout stage as the lowest-ranked archer of the 64-man field with 566 points, Sutherland lost his opening round match to the current world holder Kim Woo-jin of South Korea, who comfortably dispatched him from the tournament with an easy 6–0 score.

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* Zimbabwean male archers Living people Sportspeople from Bulawayo White Zimbabwean sportspeople 1979 births Olympic archers for Zimbabwe Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics {{Zimbabwe-archery-bio-stub