Gilmour Boa
| Gilmour Boa medal table |
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 Canada
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | Melbourne 1956 | KK lying 50 m |
| World championships | ||
| gold | Caracas 1954 | KK lying 50 + 100 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| gold | Kingston 1966 | KK lying 50 m |
| Pan American Games | ||
| silver | Cali 1971 | KK lying 50 m |
| bronze | Cali 1971 | KK lying 50 m (M) |
Gilmour Stuart "Gil" Boa (born August 8, 1924 in Montreal , † September 7, 1973 in St. Catharines ) was a Canadian sports shooter .
successes
Gilmour Boa participated in five Olympic Games . In 1952 he took 19th place in Helsinki in the three-position combat disciplines with the free rifle and 21st place with the small bore rifle. The horizontal attack with the small bore was more successful: he achieved the third-best shooting result with 399 points, but was ranked behind Arthur Jackson with the same number of points due to his weaker last series of shots , so that he just missed a medal win in fourth. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , he finished the competition with the small bore rifle in the three-position fight in sixth place, while he succeeded in winning a medal in the prone position. With 598 points, he reached third place behind Gerald Ouellette and Vasily Borissow and thus won the bronze medal. Four years later he did not get over the 52nd place in the three-position fight in Rome and was twelfth in the prone position. In Tokyo he joined in 1964 the three positions as the 38th again far behind the medals from. In the prone position he was only one point short of third place with 595 points, finishing the competition in fourth place behind Tommy Pool . During the opening ceremony, he acted as the flag bearer of the Canadian delegation. When he last participated in the Olympics in Munich in 1972 , Boa only competed in a prone position. With rank 50, he was far behind his previous results.
In 1954, Boa achieved his greatest success when he was in Caracas in the prone position with the small bore rifle over 50 and 100 m in the individual world champion . In the same discipline, he won the gold medal at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston in 1966 . At the Pan American Games in 1971 in Cali , he won the silver medal in singles and the bronze medal with the team, also in the prone position with the small-bore rifle.
His father James Boa was also a successful marksman, he became individual world champion in 1923 with the free rifle. In 1955 Gilmour Boa became a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame , three years later he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Canadian Sports . He died in 1973 of a brain haemorrhage .
Web links
- Gilmour Boa in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
- Gilmour Boa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shooting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Shooting at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Shooting at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
- ^ Shooting at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Shooting at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boa, Gilmour |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boa, Gilmour Stuart (full name); Boa, Gil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th September 1973 |
| Place of death | St. Catharines , Canada |