Alistair Davis

{{Short description|South African Olympic sport shooter}}

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Alistair Davis (born 1 December 1992) is a retired South African sport shooter.{{cite web|title=Alistair Davis|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/davis-alistair-1091446/|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031222008/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/davis-alistair-1091446/|archive-date=31 October 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite sports-reference|title = Alistair Davis|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/alistair-davis-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105202/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/alistair-davis-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 10 February 2013}} He won a gold medal in the men's double trap at the 2011 African Shooting Championships in Rabat, Morocco, with a total score of 182 targets, earning him a spot on the South African team for the Olympics.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Alistair Davis|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHRSAM0112199201|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=8 February 2013}}{{cite news|last=Abdel Kader|first=Ghada|title=Aiming for 2012|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1067/sp2.htm|publisher=Al-Ahram Weekly|date=6–12 October 2011|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204021535/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1067/sp2.htm|archive-date=2011-12-04|url-status=dead}} Davis is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in Pretoria, and is coached and trained by his father Frank Davis.

Davis represented South Africa at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed as the nation's lone shooter in the men's double trap. He scored a total of 132 targets in the qualifying rounds, one point behind Chinese shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Hu Binyuan, finishing in fifteenth place—the highest finish at the Olympics by a South African in clay target categories.{{cite web|title=Men's Double Trap Qualification|url=http://www.london2012.com/shooting/event/men-double-trap/phase=shm402900/index.html|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206014512/www.london2012.com/shooting/event/men-double-trap/phase=shm402900/index.html|archive-date=6 December 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}