Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
VenueBelmont Shooting Complex
Location1485 Old Cleveland Road, Brisbane, Australia
Dates30 September to 9 October 1982

Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was the fourth appearance of Shooting at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Brisbane, Australia, from 30 September to 9 October 1982 and featured contests in twenty disciplines, compared to just six in 1978.[1]

The events took place at the Belmont Shooting Complex.[2][3]

Australia topped the shooting medal table by virtue of winning seven gold medals.[4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia*73414
2 England58619
3 Canada3249
4 Scotland3227
5 New Zealand1102
6 Hong Kong1001
7 Wales0213
8 Guernsey0112
 India0112
10 Northern Ireland0011
Totals (10 entries)20202060

Medallists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
50m free pistol Canada Tom Guinn England Geoffrey Robinson Australia Phil Adams
50m free pistol
pairs		 Australia Phil Adams
John Tremelling		 New Zealand Barrie Wickins
Rex Hamilton		 England Geoffrey Robinson
Frank Wyatt
25m centre-fire pistol England John Cooke Scotland James Cairns Australia Noel Ryan
25m centre-fire pistol
pairs		 Australia Noel Ryan
Alexander Taransky		 India Mohinder Lal
Ashok Pandit		 England John Cooke
John Gough
25m rapid-fire pistol Hong Kong Lee Kui Nang Canada Jim Timmerman England John Cooke
25m rapid-fire pistol
pairs		 Australia Peter Heuke
Alexander Taransky		 Scotland James Cairns
Hugh Hunter		 India Sharad Chauhan
Ramakrishnan Vijay
10m air pistol England George Darling Australia Phil Adams Canada Tom Guinn
10m air pistol
pairs		 Australia Phil Adams
Gregory Colber		 England Geoffrey Robinson
George Darling		 Canada Jim Timmerman
Tom Guinn
50m rifle prone Australia Alan Smith England Malcolm Cooper Wales Bill Watkins
50m rifle prone
pairs		 England Malcolm Cooper
Mike Sullivan		 Wales Colin Harris
Bill Watkins		 Canada Patrick Vamplew
Ernest Sopsich
50m rifle 3-pos Scotland Alister Allan England Malcolm Cooper Canada Guy Lorion
50m rifle 3-pos
pairs		 England Malcolm Cooper
Barry Dagger		 Canada Guy Lorion
Jean-François Sénécal		 Scotland Alister Allan
Bill MacNeill
Full bore rifle Scotland Arthur Clarke Wales John Vivian Guernsey Charles Trotter
Full bore rifle
pairs		 Australia Keith Affleck
Geoffrey Ayling		 England John Bloomfield
Dick Rosling		 Northern Ireland David Calvert
Hazel Mackintosh
10m air rifle Canada Jean-François Sénécal Guernsey Matthew Guille England Malcolm Cooper
10m air rifle
pairs		 Scotland Alister Allan
Bill MacNeill		 England Malcolm Cooper
Barry Dagger		 Australia Norbert Jahn
Anton Wurfel
Trap England Peter Boden Australia Terry Rumbel England Peter Croft
Trap
pairs		 Australia Jim Ellis
Terry Rumbel		 England Peter Croft
Peter Boden		 Scotland James Young
Martin Girvan
Skeet New Zealand John Woolley Australia Ian Hale England Wally Sykes
Skeet
pairs		 Canada Brian Gabriel
Fred Altmann		 England Jim Sheffield
Wally Sykes		 Australia Alec Crikis
Ian Hale

Results

50m free pistol

Pos Athlete Score
1 Canada Tom Guinn 553
2 England Geoffrey Robinson 543
3 Australia Phil Adams 540
4 Kenya Shuaib Adam 538
5 New Zealand Rex Hamilton 537
6 New Zealand Barrie Wickins 532
7 Hong Kong Gilbert U 532
8 Zimbabwe Ian Redmond 531
9 England Frank Wyatt 531
10 Northern Ireland Ken Stanford 530

50m free pistol pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Adams & Tremelling 1077
2 New Zealand Wickins & Hamilton 1075
3 England Robinson & Wyatt 1074
4 Canada Guinn & Jans 1071
5 Zimbabwe Redmond & Reichert 1048

25m centre-fire pistol

Pos Athlete Score
1 England John Cooke 580
2 Scotland James Cairns 579
3 Australia Noel Ryan 577
4 India Mohinder Lal 575
5 Australia Alexander Taransky 570
6 Scotland Hugh Hunter 568
7 Zimbabwe Ian Redmond 568
8 Northern Ireland Ken Stanford 568
9 Hong Kong Peter Dawson 562
10 India Ashok Pandit 561

25m centre-fire pistol pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Ryan & Taransky 1151
2 India Lal & Pandit 1138
3 England Cooke & Gough 1131
4 Scotland Hunter & Cairns 1130
5 Hong Kong Dawson & Lee 1101

25m rapid-fire pistol

Pos Athlete Score
1 Hong Kong Solomon Lee 583
2 Canada Jim Timmerman 583
3 England John Cooke 582
4 England Chris Godwin 579
5 Papua New Guinea Thomas Craig 578
6 Scotland Hugh Hunter 578
7 Guernsey Adrian Breton 576
8 Wales Tony Bowden 576
9 India Sharad Chauhan 575
10 Papua New Guinea Robert Bayly 574

25m rapid-fire pistol pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Heuke & Taransky 1160
2 Scotland Cairns & Hunter 1152
3 India Chauhan & Vijay 1151
4 England Cooke & Godwin 1142
5 Papua New Guinea Bayly & Craig 1138

10m air pistol

Pos Athlete Score
1 England George Darling 576
2 Australia Phil Adams 573
3 Canada Tom Guinn 571
4 England Geoffrey Robinson 567
5 Northern Ireland Ken Stanford 565
6 India Sharad Chauhan 564
7 Canada Jim Timmerman 563
8 Zimbabwe Ian Redmond 562
9 Australia Gregory Colbert 562
10 New Zealand Rex Hamilton 562

10m air pistol pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Adams & Colbert 1128
2 England Robinson & Darling 1126
3 Canada Canada Timmerman & Guinn 1125
4 New Zealand Hamilton & Wickins 1113
5 Zimbabwe Redmond & Reichert 1108

50m rifle prone

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Alan Smith 1184
2 England Malcolm Cooper 1184
3 Wales Bill Watkins 1177
4 Scotland Alister Allan 1176
5 Guernsey Charles Trotter 1174
6 Wales Colin Thomas Harris 1173
7 Australia Yvonne Hill 1173
8 Northern Ireland Cliff Ogle 1171
9 Scotland John Knowles 1171
10 Jersey Patrick Ryan 1170

50m rifle prone pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 England Cooper & Sullivan 1187
2 Wales Harris & Watkins 1183
3 Canada Vamplew & Sopsich 1180
4 Australia Smith & Hill 1179
5 Scotland Allan, Knowles 1177

50m rifle three-positions

Pos Athlete Score
1 Scotland Alister Allan 1146
2 England Malcolm Cooper 1145
3 Canada Guy Lorion 1144
4 England Barry Dagger 1143
5 Australia Anton Raymond Wurfel 1138
6 Australia Alan Smith 1133
7 Wales David Arnold 1125
8 Canada Jean-François Sénécal 1123
9 Scotland Bill Macneil 1121
10 Guernsey Matthew Guille 1111

50m rifle three-positions pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 England Cooper & Dagger 2301
2 Canada Lorion & Sénécal 2279
3 Scotland Allan & MacNeill 2277
4 Australia Smith & Wurfel 2272
5 Zimbabwe Ablitt & Hardman 2116

Full bore rifle Queens prize pair

Pos Athlete Score
1 Scotland Arthur Clarke 387
2 Wales John Vivian 385
3 Guernsey Charles Trotter 384
4 Jersey Barry le Cheminant 383
5 New Zealand John Whiteman 383
6 England John Bloomfield 383
7 Papua New Guinea Graeme Norris 382
8 Hong Kong Dick Winney 381
9 Australia Keith Affleck 381
10 Canada Pat Vamplew 381

Full bore rifle Queens prize pair (pairs)

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Affleck & Ayling 572
2 England Bloomfield & Rosling 570
3 Northern Ireland Calvert & Mackintosh 563
4 Scotland Clarke & R. Allan 560
5 Canada Vamplew & Peden 558

10m air rifle

Pos Athlete Score
1 Canada Jean-François Sénécal 574
2 Guernsey Matthew Guille 572
3 England Malcolm Cooper 570
4 Scotland Alister Allan 565
5 Canada Guy Lorion 565
6 Wales David Arnold 565
7 England Barry Dagger 563
8 Guernsey Ian Donaldson 561
9 Scotland Bill Macneil 560
10 Australia Anton Raymond Wurfel 554

10m air rifle pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Scotland Allan & MacNeill 1137
2 England Cooper & Dagger 1126
3 Australia Jahn & Wurfel 1123
4 Guernsey Donaldson & Guille 1117
5 Canada Lorion & Sénécal 1116

Clay pigeon trap

Pos Athlete Score
1 England Peter Boden 191
2 Australia Terry Rumbel 190
3 England Peter Croft 190
4 Australia Jim Ellis 188
5 Canada John Primrose 187
6 Canada George Leary 185
7 Scotland James Young 184
8 Wales Denis Brown 184
9 Scotland Martin Girvan 183
10 India Mansher Singh 181

Clay pigeon trap pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Australia Ellis & Rumbel 190
2 India Croft & Boden 186
3 Scotland Young & Girvan 183
4 Canada Leary & Primrose 182
5 Zimbabwe Gordon & Conolly 181

Skeet

Pos Athlete Score
1 New Zealand John Woolley 197
2 Australia Ian Hale 196
3 England Wally Sykes 195
4 Canada Brian Gabriel 191
5 Northern Ireland Trevor West 191
6 England Jim Sheffield 189
7 Australia Alec Crikis 188
8 India Hari S. Sandhu 188
9 Canada Fred Altman 187
10 Cyprus Mikhalakis Tymbios 187

Skeet pairs

Pos Athlete Score
1 Canada Gabriel & Altmann 191
2 England Sheffield & Sykes 190
3 Australia Crikis & Hale 190
4 New Zealand McGowan & Woolley 187
5 Northern Ireland Willis & West 183

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Brisbane 1982". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Brisbane 82". The Scotsman. 29 September 1982. p. 19. Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Just the right price". The Australian Women's Weekly. 11 August 1982. p. 129. Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via Trove.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Shooting". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 February 2026.

See also

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