Commonwealth Games Record
Commonwealth Medals
Gold
Silver
Bronze
3 Gold
3 Silver
4 Bronze
Sport
Shooting
Born
28.01.1944
Previous Games
Victoria 1994
Edinburgh 1986
Brisbane 1982
Edmonton 1978
Christchurch 1974
Alister Allan
Alister Allan is Scotland’s most decorated Commonwealth Games competitor winning ten medals; three gold, three silver and four bronze between 1974 and 1994. Two Olympic medals plus World and European Championship titles were other highlights in a career spanning 26 years.
In 1978 Alister won the World Championships for the 50 metre Rifle Prone and in 1982 he set a world record, scoring a maximum 600 points in the event.
Alister competed in five Olympic Games, with a top-ten finish each time. He was a bronze medal winner at the 1984 Olympic Games in the small bore rifle event and won a silver medal in the same event in 1988. He was made an MBE in 1989 and inducted into the Scottish Sport Hall of Fame in 2002.
In 1978 Alister won the World Championships for the 50 metre Rifle Prone and in 1982 he set a world record, scoring a maximum 600 points in the event.
Alister competed in five Olympic Games, with a top-ten finish each time. He was a bronze medal winner at the 1984 Olympic Games in the small bore rifle event and won a silver medal in the same event in 1988. He was made an MBE in 1989 and inducted into the Scottish Sport Hall of Fame in 2002.