Patricia Dench
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 March 1932 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sport shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Patricia Dench (born 8 March 1932) is an Australian sport shooter. She won the bronze medal in the 25 m pistol in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[1][2][3]
Dench is regarded as Australia's first Olympic medallist in shooting. Previously Donald Mackintosh was considered the first, for his gold and bronze medals in pigeon shooting at the 1900 Paris Olympics. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has since ruled that Mackintosh's events were non-Olympic.[4]
She competed at the 1981 ISSF 10 meter air pistol, winning a silver medal.
References
[edit]- ^ "ISSF Profile". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ "Sports-reference Profile". Sports-reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ ".Database Olympics Profile". www.databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Shooting". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
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