Stephen Kelly Petterson (born 2 August 1957) is a competitive rifle shooter from New Zealand. Petterson was born in

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in 1957. A veteran of four

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and five

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, he has won a total of four gold medals and a silver medal at the

. He was the flag bearer for New Zealand at the closing ceremony of the

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. In the

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, Petterson was appointed a

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, for services to smallbore rifle shooting.

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