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Greg Reid #204

Greg Reid, New Zealand Paralympian at shooting range

Greg Reid boasts a proud and accomplished career on the international Shooting Para Sport stage.
 
Sustaining a serious leg injury after plummeting 200m in an ice climbing accident in Antarctica in 1983, some eight years later, Christchurch-born Greg took the decision to have his right leg amputated.
 
Taking up non-disabled shooting in the late 1980s the former chemistry and computing teacher later switched to Shooting Para Sport and after first competing at the national championships he was “bitten by the bug” and has not looked back.
 
Snaring a bronze medal at the 2009 Oceania Championships – his first significant international success – he navigated a route to the finals at the 2010 IPC Shooting World Championships.
 
Another career highlight arrived at the 2016 IPC Shooting World Cup in Poland when he secured a slot for New Zealand at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. In Rio on his Paralympic debut, he performed with pride, placing an excellent seventh in the Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1.
 
Combining regular shooting practice with working as a mass metrologist for the Measurements Standard Laboratory in Lower Hutt, his role is to ensure New Zealand’s units of measurement are consistent with international units with Greg specifically working with the kilogram weight.
 
A member of the New Zealand team at the 2023 World Shooting Para Sports Championships in Lima, Peru in March 2024, Greg secured a slot on the New Zealand team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games by finishing ninth in the R3 Air Rifle Prone event at the World Shooting Para Sport New Delhi World Cup. At Paris 2024 he competed in both the R3 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1 and R6 Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 events.
 
Greg received his numbered Paralympic pin as part of The Celebration Project in Wellington in November 2020.

Paralympic Results
Paralympic GamesResult
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
  • 31st - R3 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1

  • 36th - R6 Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1

Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
  • 7th - R3 Mixed 10 m Air Rifle Prone SH1

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      Hometown: Christchurch

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      Born: 27 February 1962

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      Eligible Impairment: Loss of limb

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      Health Condition: Right leg amputee

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      Coach: Self-coached

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      Classification: SH1

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      Games Year: Paris 2024, Rio 2016

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      Para Sport: Shooting Para sport

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