David Tarrant (1935/1936 – 2018) was a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in sport shooting.

He set up a shooting range across his living room with the target hooked into the stairs.

[1] At the Australian national paraplegic games in 1979 he won a gold medal and set a world record in the air pistol event with a score of 363 out of a possible 400.

[2] At the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, he won a bronze medal in the Mixed Air Pistol 2-5 event.

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