GRICE Thomas Derek

Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1992

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.78/5'10''

Place of birth: SYDNEY, NSW

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : SYDNEY, NSW

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Shooting	Trap Men	25
	Trap Mixed Team AUS Australia 2	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Asaka Shooting Range - Shotgun Ranges	Trap Men's Qualification - Day 1	Finished
	Asaka Shooting Range - Shotgun Ranges	Trap Men's Qualification - Day 2	Finished
	Asaka Shooting Range - Shotgun Ranges	Trap Mixed Team Qualification	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Trap	Trap Team X
2019	Lonato, ITA	43	3
2017	Moscow, RUS	21	1

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Trap
2017	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	3

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Trap	Trap Team
2019	1 x 16th, 1 x 19th	1 x 5th
2018	1 x 9th, 1 x 24th	1 x 11th
2017	1 x 21st	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
5	2019	Trap Team	Lahti, FIN
9	2018	Trap	Guadalajara, MEX
11	2018	Trap Team	Guadalajara, MEX
16	2019	Trap	Lahti, FIN
19	2019	Trap	Al Ain, UAE
21	2017	Trap	New Delhi, IND
24	2018	Trap	Siggiewi, MLT

Legend
X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Fishing, video games. (issf-sports.org, 01 Jan 2017)

Languages spoken:

Sydney International Shooting Centre [Australia]

John Maxwell [personal], AUS

Right eye, right hand (issf-sports.org, 01 Jan 2017)

Sporting relatives:

His younger brother, James Grice, has also competed in trap for Australia, including at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Granada, Spain. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Apr 2021)

He began shooting at age 12 at the Sydney Clay Target Club in New South Wales, Australia. He began competing in 2010. (olympics.com, 01 Apr 2020)

He was inspired to take up the sport by his grandfather, who was an avid shooter and introduced him to the sport when he was first eligible to receive a shooting permit at age 12. He initially used his mother's shotgun, and after two years of going to the range his grandfather bought him his own gun, a Beretta 682 shotgun. (olympics.com, 01 Apr 2020; shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020; issf-sports.org, 01 Jan 2017)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo for his grandfather. (shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020)

When he is training for competitions, he fires at 300 targets a week. In the build up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo he also decided to focus on more fitness training by doing extra gym work and sessions on a rowing machine. "While there's some excellent shooters that are very obviously not all that physically fit, I think it's a great help to be far fitter, so I am working on my fitness a lot more than I ever have in the past. Hopefully, that's going to put me in good stead going into the future." (shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020)

Winning gold in the trap mixed team event at the 2017 World Championships in Moscow, Russian Federation, which was the first time a trap mixed team event had featured at a world championships. (olympics.com.au, 01 Apr 2020)

His grandfather, Frank Gould, who introduced him to the sport. "He's been my best supporter by far. I wouldn't be where I am today without him." (shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020)

"I always take at least two extra shells with me to shoot." (olympics.com, 01 Apr 2020)

General Interest

General
GRANDFATHER'S GIFT SECURES OLYMPIC SELECTION
The shotgun he used in the Australian Olympic nomination series in 2020, where he earned selection on Australia's team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, was his Beretta 682, which had been gifted to him by his grandfather when he was age 14. It was his first ever shotgun, was 14 years old in 2020 and had fired more than 200,000 rounds. "50% of the people out there will tell you that you have to have the latest and greatest, and the other 50% will tell you it's how it fits you and having some talent and just putting it into the right place every time. It's hard to argue against that. If you put the gun in the right place, it doesn't matter what gun you are shooting." Grice finished second in the Australian nomination series for men's trap behind James Willet, and two points ahead of third-placed Mitchell Iles. Four years earlier, it was Iles and Adam Vella who beat Grice for selection for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "It [winning selection for Tokyo] proved to me that I was capable of it [competing at the Olympic Games]." (shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020; nswis.com.au, 29 Jun 2020)

COMMONWEALTH GAMES EXPERIENCE
In 2020 he said he intends to use his experience of finishing 15th in the men's trap at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia to his advantage at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I've made vast improvements since then. I'm a far better shooter now than I was then [in 2018]. It was good experience, good exposure and hopefully it will hold me in good stead going into the Olympics. To be part of a home [Commonwealth] Games was just amazing. To see the support for shooting, which is so often reviled and gets dragged through the mud in the media, and to have a stand of people cheering for shooting, was excellent. I thought leading in I was doing a pretty good job of being able to distance myself from that and just focus on my shooting. But I don't think I really did, looking back. It was good experience and I can certainly build from that." (shootingaustralia.org, 25 Jun 2020; nswis.com.au, 29 Jun 2020)

Milestones

He and teammate Penny Smith became the first trap mixed team world champions when the event was held for the first time at the 2017 World Championships in Moscow, Russian Federation. (olympics.com.au, 01 Apr 2020; issf-sports.org, 04 Sep 2017)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.grice.5

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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