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Full name
  
Bruce James Quick

Sport
  
Shooting

Weight
  
94 kg (207 lb)


Height
  
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Nationality
  
Australia

Name
  
Bruce Quick

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Born
  
4 October 1959 (age 65) (
1959-10-04
)

Event(s)
  
25 m rapid fire pistol (RFP)

Bruce James Quick (born 4 October 1959 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter. Since 1988, Quick had won a total of seventeen medals (six golds, two silver, and nine bronze) in the rapid fire, centre fire, and standard pistol at the Oceanian Shooting Championships. He also captured a bronze medal in the rapid fire pistol pairs, along with his partner David Chapman at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, with a combined score of 1,125 points.

Quick competed at the 1990, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth games, winning a total of 14 medals - 1 gold, 10 silver and 3 bronze medals.Quick made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol. He finished only in last place out of seventeen shooters by one point behind North Korea's Kim Hyon-Ung, with a total score of 571 targets (283 in the first stage and 288 in the second).

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Quick qualified for his second Australian team, as a 47-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the rapid fire pistol from the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships, coincidentally in Brisbane, with a score of 754.3 points. Quick hit a total of 560 targets (280 each on the first and second stage) in the preliminary rounds of the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol, finishing again in seventeenth place by two points ahead of Hong Kong's Wong Fai.

References

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