Thomas Allen (sport shooter)
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Omagh, Northern Ireland
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| Full name | Samuel Thomas Allen | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 November 1953 Omagh, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Samuel Thomas Allen (born 20 November 1953) is an Irish former sports shooter. During his sports career before shooting, he competed in table tennis, cross country running, badminton, and squash. Allen started sports shooting in 1978 after his neighbour's husband had invited him to take part in a local competition; he would win the competition.
Later on, he would compete at the World Championships and European Championships, also winning a gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games representing Northern Ireland. At an edition of the European Championships, he would earn a quota sport to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics to represent Ireland. He would compete in the men's trap and men's double trap but did not advance to the finals of either event.
Samuel Thomas Allen was born on 20 November 1953 in Omagh, Northern Ireland.[1] Growing up, he practiced multiple competitive sports such as table tennis in the school level, cross country running the junior level, badminton in the senior level, and over 35s squash at an international level.[2]
Allen started sports shooting in August 1978 after his neighbour's husband had invited him to take part in a local competition despite not having competed before. They would go to the Drumcraw Clay Target Club in Cookstown and Allen would win the event, with a spectator calling him a "natural" at the sport.[2]
