Alf Mayer

An outstanding member of Canada’s Rifle Team for many years, Kitchener’s Alf Mayer was thirty-one times Canadian champion in match rifle from 1963 to 1983. In all, he won sixty-three Provincial titles and won a gold medal in the World Cup in 1985.

Born in a small community near Stuttgart, Germany in 1938, Mayer and his family moved to Kitchener in 1957 and shortly afterwards he joined the K-W Concordia Rifle team. He became a member of the Canadian National team in 1964.

He was a member of the Canadian Olympic team in 1968 and 1972 and won an individual gold medal in the 1967 Pan Am Games, setting a record of 598 in the English match.