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| Gavin Sutherland | |
| Fullname: | Gavin Ben Sutherland |
| Sport: | Archery |
| Event: | Recurve |
| Club: | Worthing Archery Club (GBR) |
| Coach: | Gary Kinghorn |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
| Height: | 1.86m (06.1feet) |
| Weight: | 780NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
| Updated: | 24 February 2017 |
Gavin Ben Sutherland (born 26 June 1979) is a Zimbabwean competitive archer.[1] He became the first archer to represent Zimbabwe in an Olympic tournament since the late Wrex Tarr's appearance in Seoul twenty-eight years earlier, finishing as the fifth recurve male at the 2016 African Championships in Windhoek, Namibia to secure the country's Olympic berth for Rio 2016.[2] Currently residing in the United Kingdom, Sutherland trains at an upscale archery range in downtown Worthing, under the tutelage of his coach Gary Kinghorn.[3]
Sutherland was selected by the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee to compete in the men's individual recurve at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2] Heading to the knockout stage as the lowest-ranked archer of the 64-man field with 566 points, Sutherland lost his opening round match to the current world holder Kim Woo-jin of South Korea, who comfortably dispatched him from the tournament with an easy 6–0 score.[4] [5]