Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Shooting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Belmont Shooting Complex
Location	1485 Old Cleveland Road, Brisbane, Australia
Dates	30 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
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia*	7	3	4	14
2	England	5	8	6	19
3	Canada	3	2	4	9
4	Scotland	3	2	2	7
5	New Zealand	1	1	0	2
6	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
7	Wales	0	2	1	3
8	Guernsey	0	1	1	2
8	India	0	1	1	2
10	Northern Ireland	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		20	20	20	60

Medallists

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

Results

50m free pistol

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Tom Guinn	553
2	Geoffrey Robinson	543
3	Phil Adams	540
4	Shuaib Adam	538
5	Rex Hamilton	537
6	Barrie Wickins	532
7	Gilbert U	532
8	Ian Redmond	531
9	Frank Wyatt	531
10	Ken Stanford	530

50m free pistol pairs

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

25m centre-fire pistol

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

25m centre-fire pistol pairs

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

25m rapid-fire pistol

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Solomon Lee	583
2	Jim Timmerman	583
3	John Cooke	582
4	Chris Godwin	579
5	Thomas Craig	578
6	Hugh Hunter	578
7	Adrian Breton	576
8	Tony Bowden	576
9	Sharad Chauhan	575
10	Robert Bayly	574

25m rapid-fire pistol pairs

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Heuke & Taransky	1160
2	Cairns & Hunter	1152
3	Chauhan & Vij	1151
4	Cooke & Godwin	1142
5	Bayly & Craig	1138

10m air pistol

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

10m air pistol pairs

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

50m rifle prone

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

50m rifle prone pairs

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

50m rifle three-positions

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

50m rifle three-positions pairs

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Cooper & Dagger	2301
2	Lorion & Sénécal	2279
3	Allan & MacNeil	2277
4	Smith & Wurfel	2272
5	Ablitt & Hardman	2116

Full bore rifle Queens prize pair

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Arthur Clarke	387
2	John Vivian	385
3	Charles Trotter	384
4	Barry le Cheminant	383
5	John Whiteman	383
6	John Bloomfield	383
7	Graeme Norris	382
8	Dick Winney	381
9	Keith Affleck	381
10	Pat Vamplew	381

Full bore rifle Queens prize pair (pairs)

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

10m air rifle

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

10m air rifle pairs

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Allan & MacNeil	1137
2	Cooper & Dagger	1126
3	Jahn & Wurfel	1123
4	Donaldson & Guille	1117
5	Lorion & Sénécal	1116

Clay pigeon trap

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

Clay pigeon trap pairs

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

Skeet

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

Skeet pairs

Pos	Athlete	Score
1	Gabriel & Altmann	191
2	Sheffield & Sykes	190
3	Crikis & Hale	190
4	McGowan & Woolley	187
5	Willis & West	183

References

↑ "Medal Standings Brisbane 1982". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
↑ "Brisbane 82". The Scotsman. 29 September 1982. p. 19. Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ "Just the right price". The Australian Women's Weekly. 11 August 1982. p. 129. Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via Trove.
↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Shooting". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 February 2026.