Bruce Quick

Who is Bruce Quick?

Bruce James Quick is an Australian sport shooter. Since 1988, Quick had won a total of seventeen medals in the rapid fire, centre fire, and standard pistol at the Oceanian Shooting Championships. He also captured a bronze medal in the rapid fire pistol pairs, along with his partner David Chapman at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, with a combined score of 1,125 points.

Quick made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol. He finished only in last place out of seventeen shooters by one point behind North Korea's Kim Hyon-Ung, with a total score of 571 targets.

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Quick qualified for his second Australian team, as a 47-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the rapid fire pistol from the 2005 Oceanian Shooting Championships, coincidentally in Brisbane, with a score of 754.3 points. Quick hit a total of 560 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol, finishing again in seventeenth place by two points ahead of Hong Kong's Wong Fai.