Neil Day

{{Short description|British sport shooter (born 1965)}}

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{{MedalSilver| 1998 Kuala Lumpur | rifle prone pair}}

{{MedalGold| 2002 Manchester | rifle prone pair}}

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Neil Day (born 1965) is a male retired British sport shooter.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/shooting-calvert-and-millar-shoot-to-prominence-186272.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/shooting-calvert-and-millar-shoot-to-prominence-186272.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Shooting: Calvert and Millar shoot to prominence|website=The Independent|date=28 July 2002 }}

Sport shooting career

He represented England and won a silver medal in the 50 metres rifle prone (pair) with Philip Scanlan, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kuala-lumpur-1998/athletes|title=1998 Athletes|website=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|title=England team in 1998|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=7 January 2020|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330125318/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|url-status=dead}} Four years later he won a gold medal in the same event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with Michael Babb.{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/50917|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}

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