Sally Johnston

Sally Johnston (born Invercargill, New Zealand) is a New Zealand competitive sport shooter. She started shooting in 1983 with her first international competition in 1995 at the Oceania Championships in Auckland. Johnston placed eighth in the 50m rifle three positions and ninth in the 10m air rifle. In 1997, she beat her personal bests in all three events at the Oceania Championships in Adelaide where she placed fourth in the 50m rifle prone, tenth in the 10m air rifle and eleventh in 50m rifle three positions event.

Sally Johnston

Medal record
Representing New Zealand
Women's shooting
Commonwealth Games
	2014 Glasgow	50 m rifle prone
	1998 Kuala Lumpur	50 m rifle prone
Oceania Championships
	2007 Sydney	50 m rifle prone
	2015 Sydney	50 m rifle prone
	2013 Sydney	50 m rifle prone
	2011 Sydney	50 m rifle prone
	2015 Sydney	50 m rifle three positions
	2013 Sydney	50 m rifle three positions
	2005 Brisbane	50 m rifle three positions
	2001 Auckland	50 m rifle three positions

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Johnston won the bronze medal in the women's 50m prone event. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne she finished fifth and at the 2010 Commonwealth Games she finished seventh.

She won the gold medal in the same event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, winning by 0.6 of a point. She shot a games record of 620.7 to narrowly beat South Africa's Esmari van Reenen.

Since 2007, Johnston has trained and competed whilst working full-time at the Ministry for Primary Industries in Wellington. She has worked in the role of Manager for Food and Beverage since 2014.