Sarah Cooper (sport shooter)
Appearance
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Born | Kettering, Northamptonshire, England | 23 March 1949|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Havant Rifle and Pistol Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Jane Cooper née Sarah Robinson (born 1949) is a British former sports shooter.
She was a co-founder of Accuracy International with her husband Malcolm Cooper, and Martin Kay, Dave Walls, and David Caig.
Sports shooting career
[edit]Cooper competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
She represented England and won a gold medal in the 50 metres Rifle three position pair with her husband Malcolm Cooper, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[2][3]
Personal life
[edit]She married Malcolm Cooper in 1974.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympic profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Malcolm Cooper obituary". The Guardian.
Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- British female sport shooters
- Olympic shooters for Great Britain
- Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- 20th-century British sportswomen
- European champions in shooting
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- British sport shooting biography stubs