Julia Lydall
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| Born | Haywards Heath | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting sports | |||||||||||||||||
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Julia Lydall (born 16 May 1986) is a British sport shooter who has won two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games. She represented Great Britain at the 2006 World Shooting Championships in Zagreb.
Early life
[edit]Lydall was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. She has a degree in quantity surveying.[1]
Sporting career
[edit]At the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, Australia, Lydall won the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol pairs with Georgina Geikie.[2][3][4]
In 2008 with Georgina Geikie and Kathryn Pearson she set a new British Team Record for Women's Air Pistol of 1128 at the InterShoot competition in the Netherlands.[5]
She competed for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. Again partnered with Geikie, the pair repeated their result at the 2006 Games by winning a bronze medal in the 25m pistol pairs with a score of 1122 points.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Julia Lydall". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "English shooters bag three golds". BBC Sport. 19 March 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "Shooting: pistol events". BBC Sport. 25 March 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ Matthew Beard (3 July 2007). "Unfair gun laws will ruin my Olymic aim". Evening Standard. p. 59. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ "Intershoot News". British Shooting. 29 May 2008. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "Gorgs sets sights on London 2012". Tavistock Times Gazette. Tindle Newspapers. 13 October 2010. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ "Shooter Georgina Geikie upbeat despite funding cut". BBC Sport. 2 November 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- 1984 births
- Living people
- British female sport shooters
- ISSF pistol shooters
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Shooters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century British sportswomen