Malcolm Cooper

Malcolm Cooper

Medal record
Representing Great Britain
Men's shooting
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	50 m Rifle Three Positions
	1988 Seoul	50 m Rifle Three Positions
World Championships
	1990 Moscow	Individual 300 m Rifle Three Positions
	1978 Seoul	Individual 50 m Rifle Three Positions
	1982 Caracas	Team 50 m Rifle Three Positions
	1986 Suhl	Individual 50 m Rifle Three Positions
	1986 Skovede	Individual 300 m Rifle Three Positions
	1982 Caracas	Individual 300 m Rifle Three Positions

Malcolm Douglas Cooper, MBE, (20 December 1947 – 9 June 2001) married to Sarah Cooper, was a British sport shooter and founder of Accuracy International. As of 2012, he is the only shooter to win two consecutive gold medals in the Olympic 50 metre rifle three positions event.

Cooper was born in 1947 in Camberley and learned to shoot small bore rifles whilst attending Westlake Boys High School in New Zealand, where his father was stationed with the Royal Navy: he subsequently attended the Royal Hospital School. He started shooting competitively in 1970. In 1978 he established his own rifle making company Accuracy International. He won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul (both in the three positions event). In 1986 he was also world champion in 300 m Standard Rifle, a non-Olympic rifle discipline in which he claimed several European and World titles, as well as holding the World record for a period.

Cooper died in June 2001 after an eight-month battle with cancer. He died at his home in Eastergate, West Sussex.

External links

• The Independent: Obituary
• The Telegraph: Obituary