He has competed at the Commonwealth Games on six occasions winning eighteen medals, a record for athletes in any sport that he jointly holds with Australian shooter Phillip Adams, but has never been selected for the British Olympic team.

[2][4][5] Gault also won two ISSF World Cup bronze medals whilst representing Great Britain.

[7] Gault first competed at the Commonwealth Games during the 1994 event held in Victoria, Canada, representing England.

[8][4][9][10][11] At the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Gault won four gold medals.

[14] Gault achieved the qualifying mark for the free pistol event at the Olympics but was told by British Shooting that the only quota place available to Great Britain as the host nation was for the air pistol, an event in which he had not achieved the required qualification score.

[8][4][5] Competing in the 50 metre pistol event he had an opportunity to break the medal record but finished 13th in the qualification round and missed out on the final.