Seonaid McIntosh

Seonaid McIntosh (born 15 March 1996) is a British sports shooter who became the World Champion at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the 50m Prone Rifle event.[1][2] In 2019 she became Britain's most successful female Rifle Shooter of all time, winning three World Cup medals (including the first World Cup Gold to be won by a British Woman), becoming the first British Woman to rank World #1 for the 50m Rifle Three Position event and becoming European Champion in the 300m Rifle Prone event with an equal World Record score. McIntosh is the daughter of four-times Commonwealth Games medalist Shirley McIntosh and Donald McIntosh, and younger sister of British Olympic Shooter Jennifer McIntosh. In 2017 she won the Women's 3x20 Rifle event at the 2017 European Shooting Championships in Baku, becoming European Champion. Sister Jennifer had also won the Women's 50m Prone Rifle earlier in the week, becoming European Champion in that event.[3][4]

Seonaid McIntosh

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1996-03-15) 15 March 1996 Edinburgh, Scotland
Residence	Edinburgh
Education	Dollar Academy Heriot-Watt University
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	10 metre air rifle 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle prone
Club	Alloa & District
Coached by	Donald McIntosh
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  Great Britain World Championships 2018 Changwon 50m Rifle Prone 2018 Changwon 50m Rifle Prone - Women's Team World Cup Final 2019 Putian 50m Rifle Three Positions 2019 Putian 10m Air Rifle - Mixed Team World Cup 2019 Munich 50m Rifle Three Positions 2019 Rio de Janeiro 50m Rifle Three Positions 2019 Rio de Janeiro 10m Air Rifle European Championships 2015 Arnhem 10m Air Rifle Junior 2017 Baku 50m Rifle Three Positions 2017 Baku 50m Rifle Three Positions - Women's Team 2019 Bologna 50m Rifle Prone - Mixed Team 2019 Tolmezzo 300m rifle prone Representing  Scotland Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 50 m rifle prone 2018 Gold Coast 50m Rifle Three Positions Commonwealth Championships 2017 Brisbane 50m Rifle Three Positions 2017 Brisbane 50m Rifle Prone

Career

Seonaid shot at school (Dollar Academy) and club level and did not harbour international ambitions until sister Jennifer's success at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and attendance at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whilst a pupil at Dollar Academy she was a member of the school's winning 2013 team in the NRA's Ashburton Shield,[5] as well as individually winning the School's Hundred that year.[6]

After beginning training in earnest in November 2012, she placed 11th in the Junior Women's 50 Metre Prone Rifle at the ISSF World Shooting Championships – her first major international. At the 2015 10M European Championships in Arnhem she won Silver in the Junior Women's 10 metre Air Rifle,[7] making her the first British Junior in 35 years to medal at a European Championship, and setting a new British Under-21s Record.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she competed in the 10 metre air rifle event, placing 19th.[8]

In November 2017, Seonaid was selected for Scotland's team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games[9] At the Games she qualified in the 10m Air Rifle in 7th place, placing 5th in the Final.[10] [11] In the 50m Prone Rifle she won the Bronze medal, and in the 50m Rifle Three Positions qualified 6th, working up to win the Bronze medal in the Final.[12][13] As of 2016 was Seonaid enrolled on the British Shooting World Class Performance Programme,[14] working towards Tokyo 2020.

At the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, McIntosh won the Women's Prone 50m Rifle event becoming World Champion, she went on to place fourth in the Women's 3x40 Rifle, earning a Quota Place for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

In May 2019 McIntosh won a Silver medal at the Munich leg of the 2019 ISSF World Cup in the Women's 3x40 Rifle event, earning herself a place at the World Cup Final. She was not allocated an Olympic Quota Place however having already won one at the World Championships. This was the first Rifle World Cup Medal a GB shooter had won since Kenneth Parr won a Silver Medal for Prone in the 2016 ISSF World Cup, and the first Women's medal since Louise Minett won a Silver in 10m Air Rifle at the 1999 Atlanta World Cup[15].

In August at the Rio de Janeiro leg of the World Cup McIntosh won Silver in the Women's 10m Air Rifle.[16] She went on to win Gold in the Women's 3x40 Rifle, becoming the first British Woman to win a World Cup Gold Medal.[17] This result moved her from fourth to first in the ISSF World Rankings for Three Position Rifle in the September 2019 Rankings, making her the first British Woman to be ranked World #1.

At the European Championships in September 2019 Seonaid won Bronze in the 50m Prone Rifle Mixed Team (Pairs) event with teammate Kenneth Parr.[18] She went on to win Gold in the 300m Prone Rifle, equalling the World Record with a score of 599(ex600).[19][20]

Current world records held in 300 metre rifle prone
Women (ISSF)	Individual	599	Charlotte Jakobsen (DEN)  Bettina Bucher (SWI)  Charlotte Jakobsen (DEN)  Seonaid McIntosh (GBR)	July 21, 2009 August 9, 2010 September 23, 2019 September 24, 2019	Osijek (CRO) Munich (GER) Tolmezzo (ITA) Tolmezzo (ITA)

References

1. "ISSF Athlete Profile". International Shooting Sports Federation. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
2. "World Shooting Championships: GB's Seonaid McIntosh wins 50m rifle prone gold". BBC. BBC Sport. 5 September 2018. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
3. "Women's 3x20 – 2017 European Championships". Sius Ascor Results Service. Sius Ascor. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
4. "Seonaid McIntosh emulates sister with European Shooting Championships gold". BBC. BBC. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
5. "Ashburton Shield Prizelist 2013" (PDF). 21 July 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
6. "Schools Hundred Prizelist 2013" (PDF). 30 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
7. "ECH Arnhem 2015 Results Booklet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
8. "Glasgow 2014: Seonaid McIntosh". Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
9. "ST ANDREWS DAY SEES TEAM SCOTLAND ANNOUNCEMENT ON SHOOTING TEAM FOR GOLD COAST 2018". Scottish Target Shooting. Scottish Target Shooting. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
10. "Results – Women's 10m Air Rifle Qualification". Gold Coast 2018. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
11. "Results – Women's 10m Air Rifle Final". Gold Coast 2018. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
12. "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Seonaid McIntosh wins bronze in women's 50m rifle prone". BBC. BBC Sport. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
13. "Commonwealth Games: Kirsty Barr among four home nations medallists". BBC. BBC Sport. 13 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
14. "GB Academy Programme – Rifle And Pistol". Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
15. "Seonaid McIntosh wins air rifle silver at ISSF World Cup". 28 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
16. "Seonaid McIntosh wins air rifle silver at ISSF World Cup". BBC. BBC Sport. 28 August 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
17. "Shooting: GB's Seonaid McIntosh wins second World Cup medal". BBC. BBC Sport. 31 August 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
18. "GB win double bronze at shooting European Championships". BBC. BBC Sport. 17 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
19. "Seonaid wins Euro gold". British Shooting. British Shooting. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
20. "Seonaid McIntosh wins gold at European Shooting Championships". BBC. BBC Sport. 24 September 2019. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

External links

• Seonaid McIntosh at the International Shooting Sport Federation
• Seonaid McIntosh at the Commonwealth Games Federation