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'''Glyn Cawley Daer Barnett''' (born 1 December 1970),<ref name=ogcab>''Old Greshamian Club Address Book'' (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999)</ref> is a male British international rifleman who won a shooting gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.<ref name=ulrc>[http://www.ulrc.org.uk/?p=68 A Recent History of The University of London Rifle Club] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123035412/http://www.ulrc.org.uk/?p=68 |date=23 January 2009 }} (accessed 22 September 2007)</ref><ref name=bbc>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/commonwealth_games/results/4783050.stm Commonwealth Games results] at bbc.co.uk (accessed 22 September 2007)</ref>

==Sport shooting career== From 1981 to 1989, Barnett attended Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he first took up full-bore rifle shooting as a serious sport.

While at school, he represented Gresham's in the schools' shooting championships at Bisley.

During his student years he shot for the University of London, Norfolk, England, and Great Britain.<ref name=bmj/> He took part in his first World Championships representing Great Britain in 1992.<ref name=bmj/>

His first Commonwealth Games representing England came in 1994, in Victoria, British Columbia. He won a bronze medal in the fullbore rifle singles and a silver medal in the pairs.<ref name=bmj/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/victoria-1994/athletes|title=1994 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3043/19/all|title=England team in 1994|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=22 October 2019|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507165937/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3043/19/all|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, he won a bronze medal in the pairs, shooting with Jane Messer.<ref name=ulrc/><ref name=bmj/><ref>[http://www.sportinglife.com/commonwealth_games/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=commonwealth/02/08/05/COMMONWEALTH_Medallists_Home_Nations.html&TEAMHD= Home Nations Medallists at Commonwealth Games 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202220251/http://www.sportinglife.com/commonwealth_games/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=commonwealth%2F02%2F08%2F05%2FCOMMONWEALTH_Medallists_Home_Nations.html&TEAMHD= |date=2 December 2007 }} at sportinglife.com (accessed 22 September 2007)</ref> He won HM the Queen's Prize in 2002 and again in 2003,<ref name=ulrc/> becoming the first person to win the prize in consecutive years.<ref name=gresh>[http://www.greshams.com/detail/docs/senior_sport_achievements.pdf Some Recent Sporting Highlights: Shooting] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715134748/http://www.greshams.com/detail/docs/senior_sport_achievements.pdf |date=15 July 2006 }} at greshams.com (accessed 22 September 2007)</ref> This feat was equalled by David Calvert in 2015/2016.

Selected again for the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/50542|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> 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). Together they took the gold medal.<ref name=ulrc/><ref name=bbc/> Barnett commented "None of this would be possible without the support of family, friends, psychologists, coaches, and work colleagues."<ref name=bmj/>

==Medical career== From 1990 to 1996, Barnett trained as a doctor at London's ''Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School'',<ref name=ulrc/><ref name=bmj/> now the Imperial College School of Medicine. He was an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Charing Cross in London from 2006,<ref name=bmj>[http://careerfocus.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7559/27 Shooting for gold] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061124150834/http://careerfocus.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7559/27 |date=24 November 2006 }} at bmj.com (accessed 22 September 2007)</ref> and has since moved overseas in 2009 with his family.

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