Malcolm Douglas Cooper, MBE, (20 December 1947 – 9 June 2001) was a British sport shooter and founder of Accuracy International.

Malcolm Cooper

Personal information
Born	(1947-12-20)20 December 1947 Camberley, Surrey, England
Died	9 June 2001(2001-06-09) (aged 53) Eastergate, West Sussex, England
Sport
Sport	Sports shooting
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  Great Britain Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 - - World Shooting Championships 7 4 4 ISSF World Cup 1 1 2 European Shooting Championships 14 5 2 Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles 50 m Rifle 3 Positions 1988 Seoul 50 m Rifle 3 Positions World Championships 1990 Moscow 300 m Rifle 3 Positions 1978 Seoul 50 m Rifle 3 Positions 1982 Caracas Team 50 m Rifle 3 Positions 1986 Suhl 50 m Rifle 3 Positions 1986 Skovede 300 m Rifle 3 Positions 1982 Caracas 300 m Rifle 3 Positions 1979 Seoul Team 10 m Air Rifle Representing  England Event 1st 2nd 3rd Commonwealth Games 4 5 3

Sports shooting career

He was the first shooter to win two consecutive gold medals in the Olympic 50 metre rifle three positions event, a feat which stood unrivalled for 28 years until the 2016 Rio Olympics, when Italian shooter Niccolò Campriani matched the record by successfully defending his three position title from the 2012 London Olympics.[1] He won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul (both in the three positions event).[2] In 1986 he was also world champion in 300 m Standard Rifle, a non-Olympic rifle discipline in which he claimed several European and World titles, as well as holding the World record for a period.

Cooper won twelve Commonwealth Games medals; four gold medals, five silver medals and three bronze medals and represented England at four Games from 1974 until 1990.[3][4][5][6][7]

Personal life

Cooper was born in 1947 in Camberley and learned to shoot whilst attending the Royal Hospital School[8] at Holbrook in Suffolk, UK before his family moved to New Zealand where he attended Westlake Boys High School and learned the art of shooting small bore rifles. His father, who was in the Royal Navy was drafted there: He started shooting competitively in 1970. In 1978 he co-founded rifle making company Accuracy International.[9] He married Sarah Robinson in 1974.[10]

Cooper died in June 2001 after an eight-month battle with cancer. He died at his home in Eastergate, West Sussex.[2][11]

References

External links

• Malcolm Cooper at ISSF
• Malcolm Cooper at Olympics.com
• Malcolm Cooper at Olympedia
• Malcolm Cooper at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
• Malcolm Cooper at the British Olympic Association
• Malcolm Cooper at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• The Telegraph: Obituary

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