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10.07.2012
Aston Martin lend their support
In the build up to the London Olympic Games, Aston Martin kindly offered the Olympic shooting team the chance to tour their factory in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Twitter: Aston Marin Tour
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24.06.2012
Wilson wins Italian Championships
At the Italian Championships in Todi, Perugia Peter dominated a world class field, equalling the previous World Record of 196 set by China’s Olympic bronze medallist Hu Binyuan. With the Olympics now just around the corner Peter couldn’t have wished …
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28.03.2012
Wilson claims Gold with a new World Record
In the first of 3 World Cup events this year in Tucson, Arizona Peter took the field apart with a clinical performance masterminded by his coach and mentor Sheik Ahmed Al Maktoum. Peter hit a total of 198 targets out …
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- Born:September 15, 1986
- Residence:Sherborne, Dorset
- Discipline:Olympic Double Trap
- Coach:Ahmed Al Maktoum
- Manager:Ian Coley
- Height:198cm
- Weight:84kg
- Eye Dominance:Right
- Interests:Cricket, Squash, Farming & Music
HISTORY
Peter’s route to the top was no fairy tale! He only took up the sport in a serious way after dislocating his left shoulder in a snowboarding accident. Without being able to pursue mainstream sport whilst still at Millfield school in Somerset he chose to shoot one handed once a week at Cheddar Valley Shooting Ground.
He left Millfield, at the age of 18, National Schools Champion in the domestic discipline of English Sporting however without the prospect of financial support he would no longer be able to continue training or competing to the level he’d grown accustomed. To qualify for funding at that time you had to prove your worth on the international stage in one of the 3 Olympic disciplines of Trap, Skeet or Double Trap. In March 2006 after much deliberation Peter chose to focus entirely on Double Trap – 6 months later he won the European Junior Championship in Maribor, Slovenia. From that point on Peter became one of 55 fully funded athletes on the World Class Performance Program over which UK Sport presided.
In September 2008 UK Sport’s funding was slashed to cope with the global financial crisis. Under pressure to conform, cuts were implemented to a variety of underperforming sports of which shooting was one. Shooting’s World Class Performance Program was restructured almost immediately leaving Peter and 48 other athletes without a shred of financial support.
Peter’s parents refused to see him give up after such a short yet fruitful career. They agreed to support him for the next 12 months on an entirely performance related basis.
In the early part of 2009 Athens Olympic Gold Medallist, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Mohammed Bin Hasher Al Maktoum agreed to coach Peter for free. The pair worked closely together over the next 8 months before Peter was able to regain his place on the World Class Performance Program, completing the year ranked first in Great Britain and later setting a new British Record. Internationally Peter excelled, winning back to back World Cup Gold medals and setting a new Final World Record in Tucson, Arizona.
PRESS COVERAGE
London 2012 : Peter Wilson hopes Olympics boosts shooting’s image
BBC Sport : Shooting star Wilson’s World Cup introduction
BBC Sport : Peter Wilson earns GB an Olympic Quota Place
100 Team GB contenders for London 2012 : Peter Wilson
The Daily Mail : ‘I’m going to compete’, Wilson heading to London as an athlete not coach
The Daily Telegraph : Peter Wilson’s crowning glory could come courtesy of the Dubai royal family
VIDEOS
GALLERY
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 03.2013 World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico
- 04.2013 World Cup in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- 06.2013 World Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus
- 07.2013 World Cup in Granada, Spain
- 08.2013 European Championship in Suhl, Germany
- 09.2013 World Championship in Lima, Peru
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
- 2006 [1] European Junior Championship in Maribor, Slovenia
- 2008 [2] Cyprus Grand Prix in Nicosia, Cyprus
- 2010 [2] European Championship in Kazan, Russia
- 2011 [1] World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia
- 2011 [2] Late Sheikh Fahad Al-Salem Al-Sabah Grand Prix in Kuwait City, Kuwait
- 2011 [2] World Cup in Concepcion, Chile
- 2012 [1] World Cup in Tucson, Arizona
- 2012 [1] Italian Championship in Todi, Italy
- 2012 [1] Olympic Games in London, England
DOMESTIC AWARDS
- 2006 [1] Dorset County Championship
- 2006 [1] South West of England Regional Championship
- 2006 [1] English Open Junior Championship
- 2006 [1] UK Open Junior Championship
- 2007 [1] Britannia Grand Prix
- 2008 [1] Dorset County Championship
- 2008 [1] South West of England Regional Championship
- 2008 [3] English Open Championship
- 2009 [1] Dorset County Championship
- 2009 [1] South West of England Regional Championship
- 2009 [1] Britannia Grand Prix
- 2009 [2] British Open Championship
- 2009 [2] UK Open Championship
- 2009 [3] English Open Championship
- 2010 [1] English Open Championship
- 2010 [1] South West of England Regional Championship
- 2010 [3] Britannia Grand Prix
- 2011 [1] Dorset County Championship
- 2011 [1] Britannia Grand Prix
- 2011 [1] Ian Coley Masters
- 2011 [1] English Open Championship
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