Jocelyn Lees (born 19 November 1965 in
Auckland
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, New Zealand) is a shooting competitor for New Zealand.
Lees was the first NZ female to win a quota and attend an Olympics. She attended the 1992 Barcelona Olympics where she came 42nd.
She won her first
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...
medal in the
1994 Commonwealth Games
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, gaining a silver in the women's
10 metre air pistol (pairs) partnering
Gerd Barkman. At the
1998 Commonwealth Games
The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''( Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by several unpreceden ...
partnering
Tania Corrigan she won two silver medals; one in the
10 metre air pistol (pairs) and one in the
25 metre pistol (pairs) event. Four years later at the
2002 Commonwealth Games
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she won two bronze medals; one in the women's
25 metre pistol
25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...
event, and another in the
25 metre pistol (pairs) event again alongside
Tania Corrigan.
Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
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References
Living people
1965 births
New Zealand female sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for New Zealand
Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
Shooters at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Shooters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
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