Glyn Barnett

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Dr Glyn Cawley Daer Barnett (born 1 December 1970) is a British international rifleman who won a shooting Gold Medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. As a physician, he serves as a specialist registrar at the West Middlesex University Hospital, London.

Born in Norfolk, from 1981 to 1989 Barnett attended Gresham's School, Holt, where he first took up full-bore rifle shooting as a serious sport. While at school, he represented Gresham's in the English schools shooting championships at Bisley, and he then shot for the Great Britain under-19 team in Canada, coming second in the Canadian Championships. The next year he joined the international circuit as a member of the Great Britain senior team.

From 1990 to 1996, Barnett trained as a doctor at London's Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, now the Imperial College School of Medicine. During those years he shot for the University of London, Norfolk, England, and Great Britain. He took part in his first World Championships representing Great Britain in 1992.

His first Commonwealth Games came in 1994, in Victoria, British Columbia. He won a bronze medal in the singles and a silver medal in the pairs. At the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, he was disappointed to take only a bronze in the pairs.

Selected again for the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne in 2006, he shot in the full-bore rifle pairs competition in partnership with Dr Parag Patel (the youngest man ever to win the Canadian Open Championships), and together they took the Gold Medal. Barnett commented "None of this would be possible without the support of family, friends, psychologists, coaches, and work colleagues."

Dr Glyn Barnett and his wife Katie have two daughters and live in London.