About Glyn Barnett
Born 1970. Glyn Barnett is a British sport shooter.
Glyn Cawley Daer Barnett (born 1 December 1970), is a male British international rifleman who won a shooting gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Sport shooting career From 1981 to 1989, Barnett attended Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he first took up full-bore rifle shooting as a serious sport.
While at school, he represented Gresham's in the schools' shooting championships at Bisley.
During his student years he shot for the University of London, Norfolk, England, and Great Britain. At the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, he won a bronze medal in the pairs, shooting with Jane Messer. He won HM the Queen's Prize in 2002 and again in 2003, This feat was equalled by David Calvert in 2015/2016.
Selected again for the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne in 2006, he shot in the full-bore rifle pairs competition in partnership with Dr Parag Patel (the youngest man ever to win the Canadian Open Championships). Together they took the gold medal. and has since moved overseas in 2009 with his family.
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British sport shooter
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Glyn Barnett was born on 1 December 1970.
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