Lorraine Lambert

Lorraine Lambert (born 29 September 1972) is a British Paralympic shooter who was fifth in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio. Lambert was chosen for the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo in August 2021.

Life Lambert was born in 1972 and she is from Milton, a suburb of Portsmouth. She joined a youth organisation called The Nautical Training Corps and that was where she learned to shoot and began to shoot competitively.

Lambert was working as a climbing instructor when she damaged her leg as the result of a fall while rock climbing in 1997. The following year she entered competitions and won a gold medal at an event in Dubai. She finished fifth in the women's 50 m Rifle (3 Positions) in the SH1 category at Rio in 2016. At the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in 2019 she took the first British medal of the competition winning bronze in the women's R8 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1.

Lambert was chosen to represent the UK by shooting at the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. The other British women paralympic shooters chosen are pistol shooter Issy Bailey and Lesley Stewart. Each of the women in the UK team had been fitted with a designer bra. Lambert believed that this had improved her shooting and optical sensor readings have confirmed that.

Lambert came 15th in the R8 women's 50m competition at the 2020 Olympic games (in 2021), although she had wanted a medal. Her husband, Wayne, and her family were pleased anyway. She planned to take a year off.