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George Raymond Barton (born 6 September 1977 in Tamworth, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] He won a bronze medal in men's skeet pair shooting, along with his brother Clive Barton, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with a total score of 183 points.[3][4]
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| Full name | George Raymond Barton | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 September 1977 Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Skeet | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Tamworth Gun Club[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Greg Chan[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Barton made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt's Mostafa Hamdy.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in men's skeet shooting, along with his teammate Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czech Republic's Jan Sychra, for a total score of 116 targets.[5][6]
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