David Rattray
{{Short description|British sports shooter (born 1937)}}
{{Distinguish|text=South African historian David Grey Rattray}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalBronze| 1994 Victoria | 10m air rifle pairs}}
{{MedalBronze| 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 10m air rifle pairs}}
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David Rattray is a Scottish retired sport shooter. Rattray represented Scotland at two Commonwealth Games in the 10m air rifle event, winning two bronze medals. He represented Great Britain at the 2002 ISSF World Championships, placing 70th.
Shooting career
Rattray was selected to represent Scotland at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal in the 10m air rifle pairs with teammate Robin Law.{{cite news |title=Aussies Hoarding Gold at Commonwealth Games |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/613923445 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=20 August 1994 |page=24 |language=en}}
In 1994 he won the British 10m Air Rifle Championship, and won the bronze in 1995.{{cite news |title=David Loses British Title |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/925303181 |work=Lanark and Carluke Advertiser |date=24 February 1995 |page=61 |language=en |quote=DAVID RATTRAY has narrowly failed to retain his British open 10 metre air rifle championship title. The 25-year-old Lanark man won the bronze medal in the competition, held at the National Indoor Shooting Centre in Wolverhampton.}}
He was selected to represent 1998 Commonwealth Games, where he won another bronze medal in the same event, again partnered with Law.
In 1999 he set a new Team Record in the British Club Championship of 1764 at the British Airgun Championships with teammates Robin Law and Shirley McIntosh.{{cite news |title=David Loses British Title |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/902869988 |work=Lanark and Carluke Advertiser |date=3 March 1999 |page=85 |language=en |quote=Along with Robin Law and Shirley McIntosh from Glenrothes Rifle Club, Rattray won the British Club Championship, helping to create a new British record combined score of 1764.}}
References
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{{cite web |title=David RATTRAY |url=https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHGBRM0901197001 |publisher=International Shooting Sport Federation |access-date=28 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228153829/https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHGBRM0901197001 |archive-date=28 February 2024 |language=en |url-status=live}}
{{cite web |title=SSRA - Commonwealth Games Teams & Medals |url=https://ssra.co.uk/history/cgames.html |publisher=Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820142050/https://ssra.co.uk/history/cgames.html |archive-date=20 August 2017 |language=en |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=David Rattray - Team Scotland |url=https://www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/david-rattray/ |publisher=Team Scotland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811235355/https://www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/david-rattray/ |archive-date=11 August 2022 |language=en |url-status=live}}
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External links
- {{ISSF|SHGBRM0901197001}}
- {{CGF profile}}
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Category:British male sport shooters
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in shooting
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
Category:Shooters at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Category:Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Category:20th-century British sportsmen
Category:Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
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