Seonaid McIntosh

Seonaid McIntosh
Personal information
Nationality British
Born (1996-03-15) 15 March 1996
Edinburgh, Scotland
Residence Edinburgh
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Country United Kingdom
Sport Shooting
Event(s)
Club Alloa & District
Coached by Donald McIntosh
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2018 Changwon50 m rifle prone
2018 Changwon50 m team rifle prone
European Championships
2015 Arnhem10 m air rifle junior
2017 Baku50 m rifle three positions
2017 Baku50 m rifle three positions team
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast50 m rifle prone
2018 Gold Coast50 m rifle three positions
Commonwealth Championships
2017 Brisbane50 m rifle three positions
2017 Brisbane50 m rifle prone

Seonaid McIntosh (born 15 March 1996) is a British sports shooter who became the World Champion at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the 50 Prone Rifle event.[1][2] McIntosh is the daughter of four-times Commonwealth Games medalist Shirley McIntosh and younger sister of British Olympic Shooter Jennifer McIntosh. In 2017 she won the Women's 3x20 Rifle event at the 2017 European Shooting Championships in Baku, becoming European Champion. Sister Jennifer had also won the Women's Prone Rifle earlier in the week, becoming European Champion in that event.[3][4]

Career

Seonaid shot at school (Dollar Academy) and club level and did not harbour international ambitions until sister Jennifer's success at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and attendance at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whilst a pupil at Dollar Academy she was a member of the school's winning 2013 team in the NRA's Ashburton Shield,[5] as well as individually winning the School's Hundred that year.[6]

After beginning training in earnest in November 2012, she placed 11th in the Junior Women's 50 Metre Prone Rifle at the ISSF World Shooting Championships – her first major international. At the 2015 10M European Championships in Arnhem she won Silver in the Junior Women's 10 metre Air Rifle,[7] making her the first British Junior in 35 years to medal at a European Championship, and setting a new British Under-21s Record.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she competed in the 10 metre air rifle event, placing 19th.[8]

In November 2017, Seonaid was selected for Scotland's team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games[9] At the Games she qualified in the 10m Air Rifle in 7th place, placing 5th in the Final.[10] [11] In the 50m Prone Rifle she won the Bronze medal, and in the 50m Rifle Three Positions qualified 6th, working up to win the Bronze medal in the Final.[12][13] Seonaid is currently enrolled on the World Class Performance Programme,[14] working towards Tokyo 2020.

References

  1. ↑ "ISSF Athlete Profile". International Shooting Sports Federation. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "World Shooting Championships: GB's Seonaid McIntosh wins 50m rifle prone gold". BBC. BBC Sport. 5 September 2018. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Women's 3x20 – 2017 European Championships". Sius Ascor Results Service. Sius Ascor. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Seonaid McIntosh emulates sister with European Shooting Championships gold". BBC. BBC. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Ashburton Shield Prizelist 2013" (PDF). 21 July 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Schools Hundred Prizelist 2013" (PDF). 30 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "ECH Arnhem 2015 Results Booklet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Glasgow 2014: Seonaid McIntosh". Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "ST ANDREWS DAY SEES TEAM SCOTLAND ANNOUNCEMENT ON SHOOTING TEAM FOR GOLD COAST 2018". Scottish Target Shooting. Scottish Target Shooting. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Results – Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". Gold Coast 2018. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Results – Women's 10m Air Rifle Final". Gold Coast 2018. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Seonaid McIntosh wins bronze in women's 50m rifle prone". BBC. BBC Sport. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Kirsty Barr among four home nations medallists". BBC. BBC Sport. 13 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "GB Academy Programme – Rifle And Pistol". Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
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