Ian Peel
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Born | Skipton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire | 18 January 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | East Yorkshire Gun Club, Beverley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ian R Peel (born 18 January 1958 in Skipton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, England is a sport shooter who has represented Great Britain in the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions.
Sport shooting career[]
Peel first appeared at the Olympics in the 1988 Games in Seoul where he finished 25th in the mixed trap event. Twelve years later he competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and won the silver medal in the men's trap. He participated in his third Games in Athens in 2004 finishing tied for 19th in the men's trap.[1]
He represented England and won two gold medals in the trap and trap pairs with Peter Boden, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[2] Four years later represented England and won a gold medal in the trap pairs with Kevin Gill and a bronze medal in the individual trap, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[3] After missing the 1994 games he competed in his third Games at the 1998 Commonwealth Games where he once again won medals in the trap events; two silvers and a bronze with Bob Borsley. A fourth and final appearance at the 2002 Commonwealth Games resulted in his eighth medal after a winning a pairs silver with .[4]
References[]
- ^ "Olympic profile". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- 1958 births
- Living people
- British male sport shooters
- Trap and double trap shooters
- Olympic shooters of Great Britain
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Shooters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Shooters at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Shooters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics