James Paton (born 24 May 1957 in Newcastle) is a sport shooter from Canada. At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur he won the fullbore rifle event. The following year at the

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(also in Kuala Lumpur) he won the gold medal in the fullbore rifle open individual event and silver in the pairs event (with

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). At the

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in Glasgow, he won silver medals in the fullbore rifle individual and pairs events (this time with Desmond Vamplew). In 2005, he won the

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at the

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at Bisley, matching the record score of 300.40v.

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1957 births Living people Canadian male sport shooters Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Fullbore target rifle shooters Winners of the Sovereign's Prize {{Canada-sportshooting-bio-stub