Career
Barton made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-ninth in men"s skeet shooting, with a total score of 118 points, tying his position with Egypt"s Mostafa Hamdy. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Barton competed for the second time, as a 30-year-old, in men"s skeet shooting, along with his teammate Paul Rahman. He finished only in seventeenth place by one point behind Czechoslovakian Republic"s January Sychra, for a total score of 116 targets.