| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Michael John Maskell |
| Nationality |  Barbados |
| Born | 24 November 1966 Bridgetown, Barbados |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 99 kg (218 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event | Skeet (SK125) |
Michael John Maskell (born November 24, 1966, in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian sport shooter.[1] Maskell represented Barbados in five editions of the Olympic Games -- 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2016 -- having narrowly missed reaching the final podium twice in men's skeet shooting at both the 1999 and 2011 Pan American Games.[2][3]
Twelve years after competing in his first Olympics, Maskell qualified for his fourth Barbadian team, as a 37-year-old, in men's skeet shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens by receiving a wild card place from ISSF through a re-allocation of unused quota.[2] Building his own milestone as a four-time Olympian, Maskell was appointed by the Barbados Olympic Association to carry the nation's flag in the opening ceremony.[4] After finishing twenty-fifth in Barcelona (1992) for mixed skeet, forty-ninth in Atlanta (1996), and twenty-third in Sydney (2000), his highest ever placement, Maskell did not improve his standard in the same program, as he hit a total of 117 targets to share a thirty-first-place finish with Chile's Jorge Atalah and Germany's Axel Wegner.[5]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michael Maskell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ a b "ISSF Profile – Michael Maskell". ISSF. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ Toppin, Sherrylyn (13 October 2011). "No Olympic tickets at BOA". The Daily Nation (Barbados). Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ "2004 Athens: Flag Bearers for the Opening Ceremony". Olympics. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Qualification". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.