Diane Swanton

{{Short description|South African sport shooter (born 1979)}}

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Diane Swanton (born August 11, 1979, in Pretoria) is a South African sport shooter.{{cite sports-reference|title = Diane Swanton|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/diane-swanton-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084550/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/diane-swanton-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 29 December 2012}} She won the gold medal for trap shooting at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, with a games record of 72 points.{{cite news|author=Staff|title=Pretoria shooter wins SA's seventh Games gold medal|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2006-03-21-pretoria-shooter-wins-sas-seventh-games-gold-medal|publisher=Mail & Guardian|date=21 March 2006|accessdate=29 December 2012}}{{cite news|title=Shooters’ Steady Bead on Beijing Medal |url=http://gsport.co.za/shooters-steady-bead-on-beijing-medal-2/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421213726/http://gsport.co.za/shooters-steady-bead-on-beijing-medal-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2013 |publisher=GSport |date=3 August 2008 |accessdate=29 December 2012 }} Swanton also received a qualifying place for the Olympics by capturing the gold in the same category at the 2007 ISSF African Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt, defeating Namibia's Gaby Ahrens.{{cite news|title=Namibia scoops silver shooting medal|url=http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=551&Itemid=106&PHPSESSID=00589f94a77069a958b7f413f84ddd6c|publisher=Informante|date=15 March 2007|accessdate=29 December 2012}}

At age twenty-nine, Swanton made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in women's trap shooting. She placed seventeenth out of twenty shooters in the qualifying rounds, behind Great Britain's Charlotte Kerwood by one target, with a total score of 57 points.{{cite web|title=Women's Trap Qualification |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW401901/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=29 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816051602/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW401901/index.html |archivedate=16 August 2012 }}

Swanton is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in Centurion, and is coached and trained by her father Tim Swanton.{{cite web|title=Diane Swanton|url=http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=103211|publisher=Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation|accessdate=29 December 2012}}