Benjamin Burge
Benjamin Burge is an Australian sport shooter. Since 2001, Burge had won a total of seven medals in both air and small-bore rifle at the Oceania Shooting Championships. He also captured a bronze medal for the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, accumulating a score of 1,238.2 points.
Burge represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for all three rifle shooting events. In his first event, 10 m air rifle, Burge was able to hit a total of 576 points within six attempts, finishing forty-ninth in the qualifying rounds. Few days later, he placed fortieth in the 50 m rifle prone, by two points ahead of Austria's Christian Planer, with a total score of 588 points. In his third and last event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Burge was able to shoot 392 targets in a prone position, 373 in standing, and 387 in kneeling, for a total score of 1,152 points, finishing again in fortieth place.
