Alec Bonnett

Alec Bonnett started shooting air rifles on his father´s Hertfordshire farm to control vermin. After leaving school Bonnett served an apprenticeship as a carpenter before joining the Army during World War II. After the War he joined the family farm and continued farming until his retirement in 1989.

Bonnett did not take up competitive skeet shooting until the 1960s and in 1967 won the first of two English and British skeet titles, the other being in 1973. That same year he won a bronze medal with the British skeet team at the World Shooting Championships at Melbourne and three months later was back on the other side of the world competing in the British Commonwealth Games in New Zealand

At the end of the first day at the 1968 Olympics, Bonnett was one point behind the leader Jorge Jottar of Chile after the first four of eight rounds. Bonnett shared second place with three other men before falling away on day two, to finish 14th overall. Alec Bonnett died in 1992 after a year long battle with leukaemia.