Bruce Quick

Bruce James Quick (born 4 October 1959 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] Since 1988, Quick had won a total of forty three medals (twenty seven gold, six silver, and nine bronze) in the rapid fire, centre fire, standard pistol, 50m pistol and Air pistol at the Oceanian Shooting Championships.[1] He also captured a bronze medal in the rapid fire pistol pairs, along with his partner David Chapman at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, with a combined score of 1,125 points.[3][4]

Bruce Quick
Personal information
Full nameBruce James Quick
Nationality Australia
Born (1959-10-04) 4 October 1959
Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight94 kg (207 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)25 m service pistol (SP)
ClubYackandandah Pistol Club[1]
Coached byPaul McCormack[1]
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi RFP (pairs)

Quick has competed at the 1990, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth games, making him the Australian Commonwealth team member with the most appearances as an athlete, winning a total of 14 medals - 1 gold, 9 silver and 4 bronze medals. Quick made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol. He finished only in last place out of seventeen shooters by one point behind North Korea's Kim Hyon-Ung, with a total score of 571 targets (283 in the first stage and 288 in the second).

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Quick qualified for his second Australian team, as a 47-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the rapid fire pistol from the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships, coincidentally in Brisbane, with a score of 754.3 points.[1] Quick hit a total of 560 targets (280 each on the first and second stage) in the preliminary rounds of the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol, finishing again in seventeenth place, second last, one position higher from his last olympics and two points ahead of Hong Kong's Wong Fai.[5][6]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Bruce Quick". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bruce Quick". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. "Australian shooters Bruce Quick and David Chapman snare bronze in Delhi Commonwealth Games". The Australian. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. "Australia win 25m pistol pairs bronze". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  5. "Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification – Stage 1". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  6. "Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification – Stage 2". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.


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