Stephen Petterson
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Full name | Stephen Kelly Petterson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 2 August 1957|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Kelly Petterson MNZM (born 2 August 1957) is a competitive rifle shooter from New Zealand.
Petterson was born in Auckland in 1957. A veteran of four Olympic Games and five Commonwealth Games, he has won a total of four gold medals and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games.[1] He was the flag bearer for New Zealand at the closing ceremony of the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
In the 1999 New Year Honours, Petterson was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to smallbore rifle shooting.[2]
References[]
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "New Year honours list 1999". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1998. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
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