John Bloomfield (sport shooter)
{{Short description|English sports shooter (born 1956)}}
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| birth_place = Essex, England
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| sport = Sport shooting
| event = Rifle
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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
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{{MedalSilver| 1982 Brisbane | Fullbore Rifle}}
{{MedalBronze| 1986 Edinburgh | Fullbore Rifle}}
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John Paul Spencer Bloomfield (born September 1956) is an English sport shooter, specialising in Full-Bore Rifle.
Sport shooting career
Bloomfield represented England and won a silver medal in the fullbore rifle Queens Prize (open), at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.later{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/brisbane-1982/athletes|title=1982 Athletes|website=Team England}} Four years later he represented England and won a bronze medal in the fullbore rifle Queens Prize (open), at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1986/athletes|title=1986 Athletes|website=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/50536|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/shooting.htm | title=Commonwealth Games Medallists - Shooting}}
He won H.M. The Queen's Prize at Bisley twice, in 1985 and 1990 and H.E. The Governor General's Prize in Canada in 1978.
References
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Category:English male sport shooters
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Category:Shooters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Category:Shooters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
Category:British male sport shooters
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
Category:Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
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