John Paul Spencer Bloomfield (born 1956) is an English sport shooter, specialising in Full-Bore Rifle.

Sport shooting career

Bloomfield represented

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and won a silver medal in the fullbore rifle Queens Prize (open), at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in

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, Australia. Four years later he represented

and won a bronze medal in the fullbore rifle Queens Prize (open), at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in

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. He won H.M. The Queen's Prize at Bisley twice, in 1985 and 1990 and H.E. The Governor General's Prize in Canada in 1978.

References

1956 births Living people English male sport shooters Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Shooters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting British male sport shooters 20th-century English people Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games {{UK-sportshooting-bio-stub