Peter Croft (born 1950) is a British former

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Sports shooting career

Croft represented Great Britain at the

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. He represented

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and won a bronze medal in the clay pigeon trap and a silver medal in the trap pairs with Peter Boden, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in

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, Australia. Eight years later he represented

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in the individual and pairs trap event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in

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. Croft also won the 1980 Individual Trap European Shotgun Championships.He also won a Bronze Medal in the 1993 European Championships. He won the Grand Prix of Nations (Olympic Trap) in 1982 and 1983 and won the World Championship (Grand Mondial) in Universal Trap in 1982 as well as a Silver medal in the same event in 1980.

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1950 births Living people British male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games {{UK-sportshooting-bio-stub