Paul Ian Shaw

Biography

Paul Shaw will be making his fifth Pan Am Games appearance at TORONTO 2015. It will be the fourth major Games at which he will compete alongside son Drew, following Guadalajara 2011 and the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games. The elder Shaw has won three medals at the Pan Am Games: silver in team trap and bronze in individual trap at Indianapolis 1987 as well as silver in team trap at Mar del Plata 1995. He had a dream come true in 1996 when he competed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Shaw made his ISSF World Championship debut in 1994 when he achieved a career-best placement of fifth in the double trap. In his nearly-three decade international career, Shaw’s career-high ISSF World Cup result in the double trap is seventh, achieved in 1993 in Los Angeles

PERSONAL

Family: Parents Ian and Muriel Shaw… Sisters Janis Carscadden, Susan Thompson, and Cindy Lewis… Wife Beverley… Daughter Destiny… Son Drew is also a member of the 2015 Pan Am Games team… Getting into the Sport: Started shooting in his mid-30s… Olympic dream began in 1984 when he was shooting trap and saw people on an Olympic bunker… Inquiring further, he realized that clay target shooting was an Olympic event… His goal was to become an Olympian so the road began by attaining a spot on the national team in 1985… Outside Interests: Works as a lawyer… Earned his Bachelor of Laws in 1974… Chair of Ducks Unlimited… Past president of the Shooting Federation of Canada… Odds and Ends: Favourite motto: “The harder I work the luckier I get”…

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

OG: 1996 – 45^th (trap)

ISSF WCh: 2014 – 50^th (double trap), 81^st (trap); 2011 – 58^th (double trap), 97^th (trap); 2010 – 152^nd (trap); 2003 – 123^rd (trap); 1995 – 94^th (trap); 1994 – 5^th (double trap)

PAG: 2011 – 12^th (double trap), 23^rd (trap); 2003 – 15^th (trap); 1995 – SILVER (team trap); 1987 –

CAT: 2014 – 11^th (double trap), 20^th (trap); 2010 – 12^th (double trap), 25^th (trap)