James Osborne is a Field Target shooter from

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. He has been competing in amateur competitions since 1991. In October 2006 he won the world championship title in

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, scoring 143 out of 150 points."Competition Report: 2011 World Field Target Championships – Italy", Team Wild TV, 31 October 2011
/ref> In 2005 he was runner-up in the same competition. Besides shooting, Osborne also works for the

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, where he is a technician in the radiotherapy department at the City Hospital in

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Leicester Mercury, 14 October 2006
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