George Raymond Barton (born 6 September 1977 in
Tamworth, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in men's skeet pair shooting, along with his brother
, at the
2006 Commonwealth Games
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in
Melbourne
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, with a total score of 183 points.
Barton made his official debut for the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
in
Athens
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, where he placed twenty-ninth in
men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt's
Mostafa Hamdy
Mostafa Hamdy (born 18 January 1972 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter. He competed in the men's skeet event at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, and 2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to gl ...
.
At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in
men's skeet shooting, along with his teammate
Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czech Republic's
Jan Sychra
Jan Sychra (; born 21 March 1969) is a Czech sport shooter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics
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, for a total score of 116 targets.
References
External links
Profile – Australian Olympic Team
Australian male sport shooters
Skeet shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters of Australia
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
People from Tamworth, New South Wales
1977 births
Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
Sportsmen from New South Wales
21st-century Australian people
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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