Matthew Robert Inabinet (born 30 September 1984 in Canberra) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a total of three medals (two golds and one silver) in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships (2003, 2005, and 2007).[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew Robert Inabinet |
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | 30 September 1984 Canberra, Australia |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event(s) | 10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) |
| Club | ACT Smallbore Rifle Club[1] |
| Coached by | Gorden Degroen[1] |
At age nineteen, Inabinet became the youngest Australian shooter to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 10 m air rifle, along with his teammate Timothy Lowndes. He placed forty-first in the preliminary rounds of this event, with a total score of 584 targets, tying his position with Norway's Espen Berg-Knutsen.
Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Inabinet qualified for his second Australian team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the air rifle from the 2007 Oceania Shooting Championships in Sydney. He scored a total of 579 points in the preliminary rounds of the 10 m air rifle, by one point ahead of Pakistan's Siddique Umer, finishing only in forty-seventh place.[3] Nearly a week, Inabinet competed for his second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where he was able to shoot 389 targets in a prone position, and 376 each in standing and in kneeling, for a total score of 1,141 points, finishing only in forty-fifth place.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ a b c "ISSF Profile – Matthew Inabinet". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Matthew Inabinet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Australian shooters Matthew Inabinet, Ben Burge out of the Games". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 17 August 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
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