Matthew Gray

Matthew Gray (born 24 June 1973) is an Australian archer. His day job is being a water policeman. He has participated in three Olympic Games and won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Personal Born in Yea, Victoria, Gray is a water policeman. He is from Port Stephens. He has two daughters.

Gray has won several medals. At the 1988 World Field Championships in Bolzano, Italy, he won a bronze medal in the junior men's recurve event. At the 1992 World Field Championships in Margraten, Netherlands, he was part of the Australian gold medal winning men's team alongside Clint Freeman and Tony Pitt Lancaster. He won a gold in the men's recurve event at the 1998 European Grand Prix in Czech Republic. His teammates included Simon Fairweather, and Scott Hunter-Russell. At the 2008 World Cup in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, he was part of the Australian silver medal winning recurve team that. In 2010, he participated in World Cup competitions in Croatia, Turkey and China.

In preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he trained in his garage. He competed in the men's recurve archery team event where he took home a gold medal with a team score of 219, defeating Malaysia who were ranked third in the world at the time and had an event score of 212. At the Games, he was coached by Simon Fairweather. He was Australia's oldest competitor at the Games. He represented Australia in archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. Children in his wife's class cheered for him at the Games and he kept in touch with the class during the Games. In September 2011, he was named to the Australian archery shadow Olympic team. In October 2011, he participated in a 2012 Summer Olympics test event in London at the Lord's cricket ground. In January 2012, he represented Australia at the 2012 Oceania Olympic qualifying event in New Zealand. In March at the 2012 Olympic Games Nomination Shoot Results, he finished fourth with a score of 2587.