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Alternative may refer to:

• Alternating (disambiguation)

Genres of music[link]

• Alternative bouyon
• Alternative country
• Alternative dance
• Alternative hip hop
• Alternative metal
• Alternative rock

Mathematics and science[link]

• Alternative algebra, an abstract algebra with alternative multiplication
• Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical phyllotaxis

Finance[link]

• Alternative investment, investment other than stocks, bond (finance), money funds, and cash

Education[link]

• Alternative education, non-traditional education
• Alternative school, a school geared towards students whose needs cannot be met in a traditional school

Culture and society[link]

• Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books
• Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s
• Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
• Alternative dispute resolution, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence
• Alternative fashion, for example Gothic fashion, Punk fashion, Fetish fashion
• Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that it is not within the cultural norm
• Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
• Alternative medicine, healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine
• Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Ryuki
• Alternative, an album by Pet Shop Boys
• The Alternative (album), an album by IAMX

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George Digweed MBE was born in Hastings, Sussex on 21 April 1964. He is a multi-World and European English sport shooter clay-shooting champion.^[1]

He became the first man ever to shoot '100 straight' in a World Championship event^[2] and in October 2011, while being filmed for a programme for Fieldsports Channel TV and using standard cartridges, he broke a clay at 130 yards, breaking his own previous record set in America of 118 yards.^[3]

Digweed won his 16th World Championship title at the World Sporting Championship in Texas, USA on 25 & 26 April 2009, an event created in 2007 to find out who is the best all-round Shooting Champion in the world.^[4]

In 2009 he won the World Sporting Championship, the European Championship,^[5] the Mitsubishi World Series,^[6] the Pan African and the Italian Grand Prix.^[7]

In July 2010, he became the first sportsman to win a world title in four different decades (the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) when he won the FITASC World Championship. Georges' Facebook page^[8] now shows an image of him shooting with the text "George Digweed/19 World Titles/4 Decades".

He has now won 19 World titles (11 Sporting and 8 FITASC), 11 European FITASC titles, 2 European Compak titles and 9 World Cups.^[9][10]

He also has an entry in Wisden, the cricket bible, for an extraordinary cricketing achievement when his bowling figures in a Sussex league cup match were 5 overs, 5 maidens, 8 wickets, 0 runs.^[11]

He and his wife Kate run a commercial shoot at Owley Farm, Wittersham, Kent.

George is the brother of renowned DJ and record producer John Digweed.

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External links[link]

• Official website