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Place of Birth: Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
About Timothy Lowndes
- Timothy Quentin Lowndes (born 28 September 1979 in Lilydale, Victoria) is an Australian sport shooter.
- He has competed for Australia in rifle shooting at two Olympics (2000 and 2004), and has been close to an Olympic final in 2004, finishing twelfth in the rifle three positions.
- Apart from his Olympic career, Lowndes has won a total of seven medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Commonwealth Games (1998 and 2002), and the Oceanian Championships.
- Throughout his sporting career, Lowndes trains full-time under Yugoslav-born head coach and 1976 Olympian Miroslav Å ipek of the national team, while he shoots at Townsville Smallbore Rifle Club on the outskirts of Melbourne.Lowndes began shooting small-bore rifle at the age of thirteen, and then became a Commonwealth Games champion in the rifle three positions when he was nineteen.
- Two years later, Lowndes made his Olympic debut as part of the host nation's shooting team in Sydney 2000.
- There, he finished a lowly forty-first in the air rifle with 582 points, and then shared a credible score of 593 with his fellow marksman Warren Potent for nineteenth place in the rifle prone.
- Lowndes also competed in his favourite event, the rifle three positions, where he shot a total of 1159 points, 395 in prone, 375 in standing, and 389 in kneeling, to force in a two-way tie with Sweden's Olympic rifle prone champion Jonas Edman for a frustrating twentieth out of forty-four shooters.In 2002, Lowndes was able to back up his feat from the Olympics at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
- There, he set a new Games record at 699.8 to deny Great Britain's Michael Babb a gold medal in the rifle prone.
- Lowndes captured a silver in the rifle three positions with 1251.2 points to add up his medal tally to two at these Games, narrowly losing the title to India's Charan Singh by a close, 0.3-point margin.
- The next season contributed to another monumental success for Lowndes, as he managed to get a gold medal and an Olympic quota place for Australia in his favourite event at the Oceanian Championships in Auckland, New Zealand with a steady 1231.4.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lowndes qualified for his second Aussie team in rifle shooting.
- In the 10 m air rifle, held on the third day of the Games, Lowndes shot 587 out of a possible 600 to tie for thirty-fifth place with three other shooters.
- Four days later, Lowndes bounced back from a dismal air rifle showing to attain a perfect 100 and three sets of 99 for a total score of 592 in the 50 m rifle prone, vaulting him up to sixteenth position.
- Lowndes' run ended in his signature event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, where he fired a brilliant 398 in prone, 374 in standing, and 389 in the kneeling to finish in twelfth with a total score of 1161, having been close to an Olympic final cutoff by just three points.
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