Warren Potent

Warren James Potent

2008 Olympic bronze medalist Warren Potent
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1962-04-07) 7 April 1962 Parramatta, New South Wales
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Sport shooter
Event	50 metre rifle prone
Medal record Men's shooting Representing Australia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 50 m rifle prone Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur 50 m rifle prone - Pairs 2014 Glasgow 50 m rifle prone 2010 Delhi 50 m rifle prone 2010 Delhi 50 m rifle prone pairs ISSF World Shooting Championships 1986 Suhl 50 metre rifle prone team 2014 Grenada 50 metre rifle prone
Updated on 12 September 2014

Warren James Potent (born 7 April 1962) is an Australian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle prone at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He won two of the four competitions during the 2007 World Cup season. In the 2008 ISSF World Cup, he won two bronzes as well as the gold in the pre-Olympic event in Beijing, where he equalled Christian Klees's then world record for the final aggregate score. At the 2014 ISSF World Championships in Grenada he became the 50 metre rifle prone World Champion.

Olympic results

Event	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016
50 metre rifle prone	19th 593	42nd 586	Bronze 595+105.5	32nd 591	35th 620

External links

• Athlete bio at 2008 Olympics site at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 September 2008)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Warren Potent". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
• Warren Potent at the International Shooting Sport Federation