William_McLaren_(sport_shooter)

William McLaren (sport shooter)

William McLaren (sport shooter)

Canadian sports shooter

William Benjamin McLaren (8 March 1881 – 19 March 1962) was a Canadian sports shooter.[1] He competed in the team clay pigeon event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[2] He won the Canadian trap shooting championship in 1915 and 1920, and eight times the trap shooting championship of Alberta.[3] He had moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1906, and operated a hardware store there. He died in 1962.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "William McLaren". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    "William McLaren". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. [3]
    "City Store Owner Dies At Age 81". The Calgary Herald. Calgary, Alberta. 20 March 1962. p. 34. Retrieved 31 January 2019. Free access icon
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