Shirley McIntosh

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| name = Shirley McIntosh
MBE

| birth_name = Shirley Smith

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| nationality = British

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|7|8|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Falkirk, Scotland

| residence = Dollar, Scotland

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| spouse = Donald McIntosh (1992-Present)

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| country = United Kingdom

| sport = Sports shooting

| event = {{unbulleted list|10 metre air rifle|50 metre rifle three positions|50 metre rifle prone}}

| club = Alloa & District

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| retired = September 1998

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| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport | Women's shooting}}

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{{Medal|Bronze | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 50m Rifle 3 Positions Pairs}}

{{Medal|Silver | 1997 Kualu Lumpur | 50m Rifle 3 Positions Individual}}

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Shirley McIntosh MBE (born 8 July 1965) is a retired Scottish sports shooter.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy2014.co.uk/legacy-in-action/shirley-mcintosh-mbe |title=Shirley McIntosh MBE |access-date=28 December 2014 |work=legacy2014}}

Career

McIntosh won a Gold and a Silver in the 1994 Commonwealth Games.{{cite web |url=

http://www.ssra.co.uk/hall-of-fame/smith-mcintoshs.htm |title=Shirley McIntosh |date=December 2014 |work=Athlete Profile |publisher=Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association |access-date=28 December 2014}}

At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships she won silver in the 50metre three position rifle event.{{cite news |title=Canadian shooter wins gold |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510615635 |work=The StarPhoenix |publisher=Hollinger International |date=28 November 1997 |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |page=25 |language=en |quote=In the women's small-bore sport rifle 3-position shooting, Australian Carrie Quigley won with 662.6, followed by Shirley McIntosh of Scotland with 661.6.}}

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games she won Bronze in the Women's 50 metre rifle three position pairs and Bronze in the 50m rifle prone pairs, making her the second Scottish Woman to win four Commonwealth Games medals.

McIntosh is the mother of five-times Scottish Commonwealth Games medalist Jennifer McIntosh and double Olympian Seonaid McIntosh.{{cite news|url=http://www.goscotland.org/donald-mcintosh.aspx |title= Shooting Runs in the Family for Manager McIntosh |access-date= 28 December 2014}}

McIntosh was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to shooting.United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=54255 |pages=21 |supp=1 |date=30 December 1995}}

McIntosh was inducted into the University of Edinburgh Sports Hall of Fame in 2011{{cite news|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/sport-310511 |title= Women pioneers enter Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=28 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608144648/http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/sport-310511 |archive-date=June 8, 2011 |url-status=dead}} and into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.{{cite news |url=http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/news/sportscotland/2015/sporting-icons-honoured-in-scottish-sports-hall-of-fame/ |title=Sporting icons honoured in Scottish Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Sport Scotland |access-date=12 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222080420/http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/news/sportscotland/2015/sporting-icons-honoured-in-scottish-sports-hall-of-fame/ |archive-date=22 December 2015 |df=dmy-all }}