David I Westerhout (born 1936) is a former athlete who competed for England and a shooter who competed for Zimbabwe.

Sporting career

He represented

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in the 440 yards hurdles at the

1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: ''Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad'' 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18 to 26 July 1958. It was the sixth edition of what would come to be known as the Commonwealth Games, the ...

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, Wales. He was a member of Woodford Green Athletics Club and headed the UK junior rankings for the javelin in 1954. Westerhout changed sports and took up pistol shooting. He won the World Combat Pistol Championships in 1977 and was voted Rhodesia Sportsman of the Year. In 1980 he competed for Zimbabwe in the Mixed 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

in Moscow.

Personal life

During 1959 he qualified as an optometrist and emigrated to Rhodesia. In the 1970s he served in the Special Forces Unit of the Rhodesian Army.

References

1936 births English male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Zimbabwean male sport shooters Shooters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for Zimbabwe Living people Commonwealth Games competitors for England {{Zimbabwe-sportshooting-bio-stub