Peter Wilson (sport shooter)
Wilson showing his 2012 Olympic gold medal
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| Full name | Peter Robert Russell Wilson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||
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15 September 1986 Dorchester, Dorset, England |
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| Residence | Glanvilles Wootton | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Sport | Sport shooting | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Double trap | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ahmad Mohammad Hasher Al Maktoum | ||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 198 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Peter Robert Russell Wilson MBE (born 15 September 1986), is a retired English sport shooter who specialises in the double trap. He is the current world record holder for the event, having scored 198 out of 200 at a World Cup event in Arizona during 2012. A member of the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was the youngest competitor in the men's double trap event, where he won the gold medal.
Born in Dorset on 15 September 1986, Wilson took up shooting at his father's suggestion after he suffered nerve damage to his shoulder in a snowboarding accident which left him unable to play squash and cricket. He was raised on his parents' farm.
Wilson was educated at three independent schools: at the pre-prep St. Antony's Leweston Preparatory School in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, the junior school Hazlegrove Preparatory School in the village of Sparkford, near the town of Yeovil in Somerset, followed by senior school at Millfield School in the town of Street, also in Somerset. He then went to The Arts University College at Bournemouth (formerly Arts Institute at Bournemouth), in the large coastal town of Poole in Dorset, where he studied Graphic Design.
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