Craig Henwood
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1978-12-10) 10 December 1978
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight109 kg (240 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)Trap, double trap
ClubMelbourne Gun Club[1]
Coached byJack Henwood[1]

Craig Henwood (born 10 December 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a gold medal for the men's trap shooting at the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships in Brisbane, accumulating a score of 143 clay pigeons.[1] Henwood is a member of the Melbourne Gun Club, and is coached and trained by his father Jack Henwood.[3]

Henwood represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's trap shooting, along with his teammate and five-time Olympian Michael Diamond. He scored a total of 109 clay pigeons in the preliminary rounds of the event, by one point ahead of Egypt's Adham Medhat, finishing only in thirty-first place.[4]

In November 2020, Henwood was elected to the board of Shooting Australia replacing the retiring Alan Smith

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Craig Henwood". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Craig Henwood". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. Gannaway, Kath (25 March 2008). "Henwood has sights set on Olympics". Mountain Views Mail. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. "Men's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.


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