Benjamin Burge
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| Nationality |
 Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 June 1980 Albury, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) |
10 m air rifle (AR40) 50 m rifle prone (FR60PR) 50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20) | |||||||||||||||
| Club |
Frankston Peninsula Target Rifle Club[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Miroslav Sipek[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Benjamin Burge (born 11 June 1980 in Albury, New South Wales) is an Australian sport shooter.[2] Since 2001, Burge had won a total of seven medals (five silver and two bronze) in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships.[1] He also captured a bronze medal for the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, accumulating a score of 1,238.2 points.[3][4]
Burge represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events. In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Burge was able to hit a total of 576 points within six attempts, finishing forty-ninth in the qualifying rounds.[5] Few days later, he placed fortieth in the 50 m rifle prone, by two points ahead of Austria's Christian Planer, with a total score of 588 points.[6] In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Burge was able to shoot 392 targets in a prone position, 373 in standing, and 387 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,152 points, finishing again in fortieth place.[7][8]
References
- 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Benjamin Burge". ISSF. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Benjamin Burge". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ↑ "The right position for success". Melbourne 2006 Corporation. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games: After five gold Jung slips to bronze". The Star (Malaysia). 24 March 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 50m Rifle Prone Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Australian shooters Matthew Inabinet, Ben Burge out of the Games". The Daily Telegraph (Australia). 17 August 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2013.