Alistair Davis | |
Headercolor: | lightblue |
Birth Date: | 1 December 1992 |
Birth Place: | Pretoria, South Africa |
Weight: | 87.99980NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | Trap, double trap |
Club: | Centurion Gun Club |
Coach: | Frank Davis |
Retired: | 2014 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Alistair Davis (born 1 December 1992) is a retired South African sport shooter.[1] [2] He won a gold medal in the men's double trap at the 2011 African Shooting Championships in Rabat, Morocco, with a total score of 182 targets, earning him a spot on the South African team for the Olympics.[3] [4] Davis is also a member of Centurion Gun Club in Pretoria, and is coached and trained by his father Frank Davis.[1] [3]
Davis represented South Africa at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed as the nation's lone shooter in the men's double trap. He scored a total of 132 targets in the qualifying rounds, one point behind Chinese shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Hu Binyuan, finishing in fifteenth place—the highest finish at the Olympics by a South African in clay target categories.[5]