Matthew Inabinet Explained

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Matthew Inabinet
Fullname:Matthew Robert Inabinet
Birth Date:30 September 1984
Birth Place:Canberra, Australia
Weight:870NaN0
Sport:Shooting
Event:10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle prone (FR60PR)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club:ACT Smallbore Rifle Club
Coach:Gorden Degroen
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Matthew Robert Inabinet (born 30 September 1984 in Canberra) is an Australian sport shooter.[1] 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).[2]

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Matthew Inabinet. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093007/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/in/matthew-inabinet-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 29 January 2013.
  2. Web site: ISSF Profile – Matthew Inabinet. ISSF. 29 January 2013.
  3. Web site: Men's 10m Air Rifle Qualification . . 29 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816053954/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHM101901/index.html . 16 August 2012 .
  4. Web site: Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification . . 29 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816052404/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHM104901/index.html . 16 August 2012 .
  5. News: Australian shooters Matthew Inabinet, Ben Burge out of the Games. The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 17 August 2008. 29 January 2013.