Champion Shots Medal
Significance
The Champion Shots Medal encourages skill in arms shooting in the Australian Defence Force.
Skill at arms is an important ability for military personnel. Recognition of this skill has a long tradition in the defence forces.
History
The Champion Shots Medal builds on an extended history in other nations of rewarding skill in weaponry.
In Australia the three armed forces, the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force, conduct annual target-shooting competitions with standard issue weapons. Three medals – one for each force – are awarded to the winners.
The Champion Shots Medal was established on 13 September 1988 by Letters Patent.
Past recipients
At 30 June 2006, there have been 46 medals awarded.
Search the Australian Honours List for past recipients of the Champion Shots Medal.
How it is awarded
The Governor-General makes the awards on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Force or the Chief’s delegate.
No more than three medals can be awarded in each calendar year. The medal may be awarded to a member of the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. Each person is selected through a competition.
If the same person receives a further Champion Shots award it is in the form of a date bar, which is attached to the ribbon of the original award
Medal design
Champion Shots Medal
The Champion Shots Medal is a circular antiqued brass medal 38 millimetres in diameter. It is ensigned with the Crown of St Edward, also in antiqued brass. Two wreaths of laurel leaves surround a symbol of two crossed rifles superimposed on the stars of the Southern Cross. There is no design on the back of the medal.
Medal Ribbon
The medal is suspended from a 32 millimetres wide ribbon. The ribbon has a central dark blue vertical band flanked by two vertical bands of red, which are in turn bordered by two vertical bands of light blue.
A clasp inscribed with the year awarded is attached to the ribbon.
Print fact sheet
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- Champion Shots Medal - Fact Sheet - PDF 45KB File
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