Kevin Gill

A two-time Olympian, Kevin Gill started sports shooting in the late-1970s and made trap shooting his specialty. He won his first major international medal at the 1980 European Championships, in Zaragoza, when he won a bronze in the junior double trap. His first major international gold medal was in 1989 when he won the Olympic Trap at the World Cup in Suhl, Germany.

Gill represented England between 1981-97, including at the 1990 Commonwealth Games at Auckland when he won the trap individual silver, and the pairs gold medal with Ian Peel. That same year he won the first of six World Championship medals when he captured silver in the double trap at Moskva. Gill won gold silver and bronze at Perth, Australia the following year and his last World Championship medals were gold and silver at Fagnano Olona, Italy, in 1994. He also won a double trap silver at the 1992 European Championships in Istanbul.

At home, Gill won the British Olympic Trap Grand Prix (formerly “The Rolex”) three times in 1990-91, and 1996, and was English Open Automatic Ball Trap champion seven times between 2000-11. After retiring from competitive shooting, he became a coach and was head shotgun coach at British Shooting. During his time in that capacity, he developed some great performers, including Peter Wilson, London 2012 gold medal winner, and Steve Scott and Ed Ling, Rio 2016 bronze medallists. Gill also coached the 2019 World Shotgun champion Matthew Coward-Holley. Gill left his post at British Shooting in August 2019 a month after those championships.