Michael Maskell

Michael Maskell
Personal information
Full name Michael John Maskell
Nationality  Barbados
Born 24 November 1966
Bridgetown, Barbados
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 99 kg (218 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Skeet (SK125)

Michael John Maskell (born November 24, 1966 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian sport shooter.[1] He represented Barbados in four editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004), and has narrowly missed the podium twice in men's skeet shooting at the 1999 and 2011 Pan American Games.[2][3]

Twelve years after competing in his first Olympics, Maskell qualified for his fourth Barbadian team, as a 37-year-old, in men's skeet shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a wild card place from ISSF through a re-allocation of unused quota.[2] Building his own milestone as a four-time Olympian, Maskell was appointed by the Barbados Olympic Association to carry the nation's flag in the opening ceremony.[4] After finishing twenty-fifth in Barcelona (1992) for mixed skeet, forty-ninth in Atlanta (1996), and twenty-third in Sydney (2000), his highest ever placement, Maskell did not improve his standard in the same program, as he hit a total of 117 targets to share a thirty-first place finish with Chile's Jorge Atalah and Germany's Axel Wegner.[5]

Olympic results

Olympic results
Event 1992 1996 2004 2008
Skeet 25th
145[6]		 49th
112[7]		 23rd
119[8] 		31st
117[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Maskell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ISSF Profile – Michael Maskell". ISSF. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Toppin, Sherrylyn (13 October 2011). "No Olympic tickets at BOA". The Daily Nation (Barbados). Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "2004 Athens: Flag Bearers for the Opening Ceremony". Olympics. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Shooting: Men's Skeet Qualification". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Barcelona 1992: Shooting – Mixed Skeet" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 92. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Men's Skeet" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 217. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's Skeet" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 74. Retrieved 23 September 2013.