Glyn Cawley Daer Barnett (born 1 December 1970),''Old Greshamian Club Address Book'' (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999) is a male British international

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who won a shooting gold medal at the

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.A Recent History of The University of London Rifle Club
(accessed 22 September 2007)Commonwealth Games results
at bbc.co.uk (accessed 22 September 2007)

Sport shooting career

From 1981 to 1989, Barnett attended

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, Holt, Norfolk, where he first took up full-bore

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as a serious sport. While at school, he represented Gresham's in the schools' shooting championships at Bisley. During his student years he shot for the

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, England, and Great Britain. He took part in his first World Championships representing Great Britain in 1992. His first

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representing

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came in 1994, in

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. He won a bronze medal in the fullbore rifle singles and a silver medal in the pairs. At the

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Commonwealth Games in 2002, he won a bronze medal in the pairs, shooting with Jane Messer. He won HM the Queen's Prize in 2002 and again in 2003, becoming the first person to win the prize in consecutive years.Some Recent Sporting Highlights: Shooting
at greshams.com (accessed 22 September 2007) This feat was equalled by David Calvert in 2015/2016. Selected again for the Commonwealth Games at

in 2006, he shot in the full-bore rifle pairs competition in partnership with Dr Parag Patel (the youngest man ever to win the Canadian Open Championships). Together they took the gold medal. Barnett commented "None of this would be possible without the support of family, friends, psychologists, coaches, and work colleagues."

Medical career

From 1990 to 1996, Barnett trained as a doctor at London's ''Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School'', now the

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. He was an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Charing Cross in

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from 2006.Shooting for gold
at bmj.com (accessed 22 September 2007) , and has since moved overseas in 2009 with his family.

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