Kurt MITCHELL

The high point of Kurt Mitchell’s sport shooting career was in the mid-to-late 1970s, when he was selected to represent Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Competing in the Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 m event, he placed 16th in a field of 57 participants. The following year he won a silver medal in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the Continental American Championships, also placing seventh in the Rifle, Three Positions, 300 m event at the same tournament. He then won a bronze medal in the 10 m Air Rifle at the 1979 Pan American Games and was chosen to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics, but Canada boycotted those Games and thus Mitchell did not attend. He retired from active competition shortly thereafter and returned to his career in business, later dying at the age of only 55 while out jogging.