Shirley McIntosh MBE | |
Birth Name: | Shirley Smith |
Nationality: | British |
Birth Date: | 8 July 1965 |
Birth Place: | Falkirk, Scotland |
Residence: | Dollar, Scotland |
Spouse: | Donald McIntosh (1992-Present) |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Sport: | Sports shooting |
Club: | Alloa & District |
Retired: | September 1998 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Shirley McIntosh MBE (born 8 July 1965) is a retired Scottish sports shooter.[1]
McIntosh won a Gold and a Silver in the 1994 Commonwealth Games.[2]
At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships she won silver in the 50metre three position rifle event.[3]
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games she won Bronze in the Women's 50 metre rifle three position pairs and Bronze in the 50m rifle prone pairs, making her the second Scottish Woman to win four Commonwealth Games medals.
McIntosh is the mother of five-times Scottish Commonwealth Games medalist Jennifer McIntosh and double Olympian Seonaid McIntosh.[4]
McIntosh was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to shooting.[5]
McIntosh was inducted into the University of Edinburgh Sports Hall of Fame in 2011[6] and into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.[7]