News Archive - 2008
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12th
December 2008 |
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Rory McAlpine and Jennifer McIntosh are two of a
seven strong Shooting contingent selected by the British Olympic Association for
the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival. Rory will compete in the Men's
Prone, Jen in the Women's Air Rifle and 3x20, and will be joined by Donald
McIntosh as Team Leader/Rifle Coach. The shooting events are for
Under-19 athletes, and the Australians have invited teams from China, India, New
Zealand, Oceania and the United Kingdom to compete in 13 of the 15 Olympic
events.
British Shooting Performance Director John Leighton-Dyson said "British
Shooting are pleased to be supporting a young team of Rifle and Pistol shooters
to Sydney this coming January. It is a wonderful opportunity for them to
participate in an Olympic type multi-sport Games in a great city blessed with a
wonderful climate for sport. The competition will be stronger than ever before
but we have realisitic prospects for medals and shooting with do Team GB proud".
Over one hundred of the UK's finest young athletes have been selected to
represent Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney from
14-18 January 2009. The athletes aged between 13-19 will be competing in 11
Olympic sports; archery, canoe/kayak; diving; equestrian; fencing; gymnastics;
hockey; rowing; shooting; triathlon and volleyball (beach).
1,600 athletes representing 25 nations (including China and the United
States,) will compete, by invitation, at the AYOF. The event was set up by the
Australian Olympic Committee as part of the legacy of the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games.
Leading Team GB at the AYOF Mark England, Chef de Mission said:
“As part of the BOA’s desire to discover future Olympic champions and provide
them with the experience of participating in multi-sport events, this festival
presents a fantastic opportunity for over 100 of our finest young potential
Olympians to get their first taste of Olympic competition.
With the London Olympic Games less than four years away, many of these
athletes will be hoping to use this experience as a stepping stone to 2012.”
The 2009 AYOF is the second time that Great Britain has been invited to
compete in the AYOF. A total of 106 Team GB athletes attended the 2007 AYOF with
91 returning to the UK with at least one medal. Great Britain finished with a
highly credible 14 gold, 20 silver and 14 bronze medals. Further details are
available on the BOA's
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10th
November 2008 |
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Jennifer McIntosh won
the first Air Rifle Grand Prix of the 2008/9 season, held yesterday in Callander.
A score of 584, breaking the Scottish Record for Junior Women over 60 shots,
took her into the final four points clear of Robin Law - a lead which was
extended slightly after the additional ten shots. Things were a little
closer in the fight for third place - Steven Watterson taking the points, while
Sheena Sharp made up a three point deficit on Donald McIntosh and snatched the
extra point on the tie-shot.
In the Air Pistol event Mike
Baillie-Hamilton - a former Commonwealth Games fullbore rifle shooter, and
leading exponent of Match Rifle shooting took the honours, with Bruce McIntosh
and Mark Joyce taking second and third. |
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10th
November 2008 |
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Watsonian Rifle Club is holding its annual Open Meeting on Sunday 30th November,
Saturday & Sunday 6th & 7th December.
There are five Classes with Ladies, Veterans and Junior competitions, plus club
teams of 3. The course of fire is 60 shots at 25 yards, completed in 3
details (doesn't have to be consecutive details), 2 cards shot in every detail
with a time limit of 10 minutes per card, your cards are changed for you.
Food available throughout the day in the "Bun Room".
Previous entrants will be emailed an entry form, for further information and/or
an entry form please contact
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27th October 2008 |
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Kay Copland was presented with the Runner's Up award
for the Clydesdale Bank Scottish Athlete of the Commonwealth Youth Games on
Saturday night. Kay was presented with a cheque for �300 along with
another cheque for �300 for Banff & Macduff Rifle Club, by Steve Reid, Retail
Director of the Clydesdale Bank along with Stewart Maxwell, Scottish Sports
Minister during the annual Commonwealth Games Scotland awards dinner in Glasgow.
Kay won the first of Scotland's three Gold medals at the recent Youth Games in
Pune - the award for first place going to swimmer Douglas Scott, who won the
other two Gold medals as well as a Bronze. Also attending the dinner
were Kay's fellow team members Jennifer McIntosh, Rory McAlpine and Catriona
MacGregor - all four of whom are pictured right with multiple Olympic Gold medal
winner Chris Hoy. |
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24th October 2008 |
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Neil Stirton heads for Bangkok on Tuesday to compete
in the prestigious World Cup Final competition. This event, held annually,
features a elite field of 12 athletes in each Olympic rifle and pistol event.
Eight athletes - including Neil - qualified from the World Cup matches held in
the spring, and are joined by the three medallists from the Beijing Olympic
Games and the World Cup Final winner from the previous year.
Neil will compete in the Men's Prone event, in
which he won a Silver medal at the third World Cup of 2008 in Munich, and leaves
the UK on Tuesday along with coach Donald McIntosh. The Men's Prone is
scheduled for the 3rd of November, and will be shown on
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24th October 2008 |
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The Scottish team of 15 in our annual postal
international match with New Zealand have won the 2008 match, despite recording
a relatively low score of 5902. Following on from a win in 2007, this
brings the total for the series to 18:17 in favour of the Kiwis. Top score
in the Scottish team was Gordon Motion with 397. In the Junior match, a
run of three consectutive wins by the Scottish team came to an end, the New
Zealand team winning 1951 to 1937 for their third win in nine matches. Top
score in the Scottish team was Ian McDougall with 392. |
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19th October 2008 |
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Kay Copland - one of Scotland's three Gold Medal
winners at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India - was selected to carry the
Scottish flag at the Closing Ceremony in Pune last night. |
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16th October 2008 |
Jennifer McIntosh has won Scotland's third Shooting
medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India. Jennifer started well,
taking the lead from the off with a very steady 196 prone, two points ahead of
the next best shooter. Her Standing got off to a slow start, with 88, but
she pulled out all the stops for a 95 on the second string, slightly extending
her overall lead going into the Kneeling. This last position, in which she
is still very inexperienced, proved the most difficult, and although she started
with a steady 90, she fell away over the last ten shots to finish with an 84,
for a Qualification round total of 553 - just one off her Personal Best.
This took her into the final in equal third place, in lane four based on
countback. A 10.0 to start moved her
immediately into second place, and there she remained for the next nine shots,
including another four 10s, extending her lead over the third placed Indian
shooter, but unable to make up any ground into the lead held by England's Sheree
Cox.
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14th October 2008 |
Kay Copland and Rory McAlpine have won Scotland's
first two medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, IND. Kay shot a
score of 585 to win the Women's Prone by a margin of three points, ahead of
shooters from Malaysia and England. Just minutes later, Rory made it two,
with Bronze in the Men's Prone."It's beyond than
my wildest dreams to compete in an event like this and it feels absolutely
amazing to win the gold medal," said 18 year old Kay.
"I didn't think I'd ever get gold, I didn't think I'd
ever get a medal so I'm so happy. The event is quite a high standard and I know
some of the people so I was quite nervous before the start."
Seventeen year old Rory finished behind shooters from
England and Northern Ireland. Had it not been for one stray shot in the final, which
he recovered quickly from, he might have finished higher.
"I had one shocking shot right in the middle of the
final on my fifth shot and thought I had ruined my chances but I managed to put
it out of my mind and get on with it," he said. "I'm very and relieved to in
the bronze medal I was very proud to be standing on the podium."
Equally delighted was Sinclair Bruce, the Scottish
team's shooting manager. "It's obviously a great start for the team to get a
gold and bronze on the same day and they came in very different ways," he said.
"Rory had a rocky start in the 60 shot qualification.
He came off had a chat and he went back down and he was like a different
shooter. Whilst Kay was steady all the way through."
"Coming into today I was hopeful of two medals. We
don't really know what the competition was like but I knew what Kay and Rory
were capable of."
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14th October 2008 |
Following the completion of the 2007/8 season, SSRA
Performance Manager Donald McIntosh has announced a number of revisions to the
SSRA's Squads.In the A Squad, Kay Copland moves up from the U25 squad,
as does Dave Caughey from the B Squad, while Susan Jackson steps down following
her recent retirement from International Shooting. Fraser Cheetham makes
the move from the U21 to the U25 Squad. The majority of the athletes
within these squads will benefit from support from the Scottish Institute of
Sport and the various Area Institutes of Sport.
Gregor Bremner moves up to the B Squad, becoming a Senior in 2009, and is
joined there by Mike Ozmond. There are also a number of new additions to
the U21 Squad - Kathryn Williamson in Air Rifle, Ashleigh Talyor, Andrew Ross
and William Stewart in Prone.
The squads will meet as one large group in late October for a review of 2008,
Anti-Doping education and a number of workshops looking forward to 2009 and the
2010 Commonwealth Games.
Full details can be seen on the
Squads and Athletes page
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29th September 2008 |
Word has reached us of a number of medals won at the
CSF(ED) Championships in Gibraltar over the last three days, including:
- Gold - Women's Air Rifle Individual -
Jennifer McIntosh
- Silver - Women's 3x20 Individual - Jennifer
McIntosh
- Silver - Men's Prone Pairs - Dave Caughey &
James Paterson
- Silver - Women's 3x20 Pairs - Jennifer
McIntosh & Sarah Bates
- Bronze - Men's 3x40 Pairs - James Paterson &
James Henderson
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8th September 2008 |
Hugh Simpson
Prone
GP Series Winner
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Sheena Sharp finished the summer season with two
wins and a new Personal Best at the SSRA Grand Prix events over the weekend.
A qualification round of 564 in the 3x20, in very windy conditions at Denwood,
was a new PB, and earned her maximum points. Emma Cole-Hamilton was
second, moving ahead of Susan Jackson to win the 3x20 series for the fourth
time. Donald McIntosh won the 3x40 Grand Prix to retain the 3x40 series -
a seventh title in 19 years.
Sheena went on to Gagie, where faced with more challenging conditions she shot
an excellent 594 to take a three point lead into the final, with Martin MacGill
and Cyril De Jonckheere taking the minor medals. Fourth place for Hugh
Simpson gave him enough points to move into top place in the A&B series for
his first outright win - having shared the series with Gordon Winch way back in
1989.
Beverley Burnside, Fraser Cheetham and Iain Malone took the medals in the C&D
series, leaving the order at the top of the C&D points table unchanged.
Earlier in the day Cliff Ogle had produced a stunning 596 to win Class B,
with only 591 required by Hugh Simpson to win Class A. Beverley Burnside's
excellent form continuing, with 590 to win Class C, with Simon Batchelor's 580
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Sheena Sharp
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GP Winner |
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1st September 2008 |
The fourth Grand Prix events of the summer were
blessed with excellent entry levels, and some fine shooting, on the 50m range at
Denwood. A considerable influx of visitors from England and the Isle of
Man boosted the entries, and helped to raise the standards of the Prone matches
amongst the highest seen yet.
A score of 590 in the Grampian Open was required
to qualify for the Grand Prix - four scores of 596 topping the bill in Class A,
with Sinclair Bruce the winner on countback ahead of Neil Stirton and Mike Babb
- Richard Wilson counted out to fourth! Class B wasn't much easier, Dave
Caughey the winner with 593 ahead of Cliff Ogle on 592 and Sharon Lee the best
of the 591s. Class C was worse, Beverley Burnside adding five points to
her Personal Best to win on 595, but only two points ahead of another big PB,
this one from Fraser Cheetham with 593, with James Paterson third on 587.
Bruce McIntosh won Class D on 578, with Ron Nilsen and Simon Batchelor second
and third on 575.
Bev's excellent run of form continued into the C&D Grand Prix final, a 593
securing maximum points and giving her a nine point lead in the series.
Iain Malone was close behind, with 591 for second, Fraser Cheetham third on 588.
These three shooters have moved well ahead of the pack in the series, which will
be decided at Gagie next Sunday.
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In the A&B Grand Prix Richard Wilson from the Isle
of Wight, inspired after being counted down to fourth on an equal winning score
in the morning, raised his game to lead the field with an excellent 597, two
clear of Helen Spittles, with Hugh Simpson third. With Helen and Mike Babb
leaving before the final, Richard was unchallenged and produced the best final
of the day for a comfortable win - Donald McIntosh moving ahead of Hugh for
second, and Neil Stirton climbing from 8th to 3rd with another of his excellent
final performances, snatching the medal from Hugh on the tie-shot. The
Prone series remains wide open, with James Henderson hanging onto a narrow lead
from High Simpson and Matt Thomson, but there are a considerable number of other
shooters who can still win the title when it is decided next Sunday at Gagie.
Scores in the Three Positions Grand Prix on the Saturday were generally low,
other than England's Sharon Lee who recorded a fine 577 to win by a massive
margin. Donald McIntosh took maximum points in the 3x40 with his best
performance since retiring in 2003. Susan Jackson still heads the 3x20
series, with Graham Rudd moving into a narrow lead ahead of Neil Stirton in the
3x40 series, both of which will be finalised next Saturday at Denwood. |
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22nd August 2008 |
Jennifer McIntosh has won GBR's first medal of the
Nordics Championships in Sweden, setting new Scottish Junior and Senior Record
scores on her way to the Silver medal.A qualification round of 393,
including first and last strings of 100, took her into the final in second
place, three points off the lead. The lead was steadily closed down over
the next ten shots - nine of them 10s from Jennifer - but the gap was just too
much, and she finished 0.5 off the lead.
Both her qualification round of 393 and final score of 496.4 are new Scottish
records in both the Junior and Senior categories.
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22nd August 2008 |
The following team has been selected for the CSF(ED)
Championships, which will be held in Gibraltar in September:
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Women's Prone: |
Sarah Bates, Jennifer
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Women's 3x20 |
Sarah Bates*, Jennifer
McIntosh |
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Women's Air: |
Jennifer McIntosh |
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Men's Prone: |
Dave Caughey, James Henderson, Rory McAlpine,
James Paterson |
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Men's 3x40: |
Dave Caughey*, James Henderson*, James
Paterson |
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Men's Air: |
James Henderson* |
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Team Manager: |
Graham Rudd |
* Denotes that no cap will be awarded for this event.
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21st August 2008 |
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The following athletes have been selected by
Commonweath Games Scotland
for the Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be held in Pune, India, in October:
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Women's Prone: |
Kay Copland |
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Men's Prone: |
Rory McAlpine |
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Women's Air & 3x20: |
Jennifer McIntosh |
They will be joined by Air Pistol shooter
Catriona McGregor and Skeet shooter Ben Wilson, as part of a 44 strong
Scottish team. Sinclair Bruce is also travelling to Pune as Sport Team
Manager for Shooting.
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21st August 2008 |
Three Scottish juniors are included in the British
team at the Junior Nordics in Sweden this week.
Jennifer McIntosh shoots
in the Women's Air Rifle, Nikki Sammels in the Women's Prone and Robin Honhold
in the Men's Prone.
They are also joined by Scottish Air Pistol shooters Catriona McGregor and Alasdair Exworthy.
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16th August 2008 |
Sheena Sharp has become the second ever Women, and
first Scot since 1993, to win the British Long Range Prone Championship for the
Earl Roberts trophy at the NSRA National Rifle Meeting at Bisley. Sheena
scored 772 in the Double Dewar final, beating Tony Lincoln by two points, with
last year's winner Michelle Smith in third place and Scotland's Hugh Simpson
fifth.The Scottish teams in the Home Countries matches did not perform
well, all three losing - the Main Team third behind England and Wales, the
Ladies and Juniors second to England. There were debuts for Mary Melvin
and Mike Ozmond in the Main Team and for Fraser Cheetham, Andrew Ozmond and
Jennifer McIntosh in the Junior team. The scores are available
here.
In the Aggregate competitions Cliff Ogle was second in Class X, while Andrew
Laurie was runaway winner in Class C. Sheena Sharp won the 50m portion of
the Aggregate.
Hopefully a fuller summary of the Scottish interest in the meeting will be
post next week.
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7th August 2008 |
The following team has been selected for the Home
Countries Three Positions match, which will be held concurrently with the
British 3x40 Championship on Saturday morning:
- Graham Rudd (Capt)
- James Paterson
- Brian Inglis
At this time it appears that we do not have
sufficient Women entered in the 3x20 Championship to contest the Women's
International Match.
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7th August 2008 |
You can follow Jon's progress in Beijing on his new
blog - with all the technical work done by Neil Stirton! Click
here...
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7th August 2008 |
Kay Copland has continued her run of good form,
winning the Women's Prone at the NSRA's Junior International match at Bisley
today. Kay's score of 588 gave her a five point lead over Fenna Otten of
Oldenburg.In the Junior Men's Prone, the team of Fraser Cheetham, Ian
MacDougall and Andrew Ozmond took the bronze behind Denmark and the GB Junior
Squad team.
There was success also from their counterparts in the Pistol events -
Catriona MacGregor winning the Women's Air Pistol ahead of team-mate Anja Hogben,
and then combining with Jess Lidden to win the Team event also. In the
Men's Air Pistol Alistair Exworthy, Graeme Corr and Jack McRoberts also took a
team bronze.
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29th July 2008 |
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The following athletes have been nominated by SSRA
for the Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be held in Pune, India, in October:
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Kay Copland |
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Men's Prone: |
Rory McAlpine |
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Women's Air: |
Jennifer McIntosh |
These nominations have been made to Scottish
Target Shooting, who will combine them with athletes nominated in the Pistol
and Shotgun disciplines, before sending them on to Commonwealth Games
Scotland. At this stage we have been told that we can expect to have
four athletes selected for the final team, however there are five Events
in which Scottish shooters have achieved the minimum consideration standard.
All five athletes will be nominated in the hope that a further team place may become
available, however it is possible that only four of them will make the final
team.
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29th July 2008 |
The following team has been selected for the NSRA/Eley
Inter-Region Match, which will be held at Bisley on Friday 8th August:
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Men's Prone: |
James Henderson, James Paterson, Dave Caughey
Rory McAlpine, Fraser Cheetham,
Graham Rudd
Gordon Buchan, Andrew Ozmond,
Charles Allan |
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Men's 3x40 |
Graham Rudd, James Paterson
James Henderson, Dave Caughey |
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Women's Prone: |
Sarah Bates, Mary Melvin |
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29th July 2008 |
The following team has been selected for the NSRA
Junior International, which will be held at Bisley from 4th to 7th August:
| Men's Prone: |
Rory McAlpine, Ollie Barron, Fraser
Cheetham, Gordon Buchan, Andrew Ozmond, Ian MacDougall |
| Women's Prone: |
Kay Copland, Nikki Sammels, Jen McIntosh |
| Women's 3x20: |
Jen McIntosh |
| Women's Air: |
Jen McIntosh |
| Coaches: |
Cyril De Jonckheere, Sheena Sharp |
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28th July 2008 |
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The Scottish 50m Championships finished yesterday,
with a difficult start for the Men's Prone due to fog blanketing the range
during the early part of the first elimination relay. Despite this,
the day produced some fine shooting, and it took the final to split Neil Stirton
and Martin Sinclair, with the 2006 Commonwealth Games pair tied on 596 after the
qualification round. Neil shot a very steady 104.3 to Martin's 103.0.
Jim Cole-Hamilton, the winner of the Haig earlier this month, was just a point
behind on 595 but was unable to make up ground, and remained in third place with
his final of 102.3. Ken Parr was the best placed junior, 6th with 592 &
102.7 Welsh shooter Sian Corish won the Women's 3x20 with a solid 575,
entering the final four points ahead of Emma Cole-Hamilton, with Susan Jackson
leading the pack of challengers for third place. Sian and Emma remained
first and second after the final, with Susan losing out on the Bronze in the
Open Championship to Sian's twin sister Jenny. Emma and Susan took Gold
and Silver in the confined championship, with Jennifer McIntosh taking the
Bronze and highest Junior award on her debut. |
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27th July 2008 |
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The Scottish 50m Championships started yesterday at
a warm and sunny Denwood. The entry is substantially up on last year, with
a number of competitors from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
England's Commonwealth Games Silver medallist Helen Spittles won the Women's
Prone with a fine 594, ahead of her Melbourne pairs partner Sharon Lee on 591
and Susan Jackson on 587. Susan won the confined Scottish Championship,
with Beverley Burnside and Kay Copland second and third, Kay winning the Junior
event ahead of Nikki Sammels and Jennifer McIntosh.
In the Men's 3x40, Ken Parr (ENG) shot a steady 1151 for a new Personal Best
and provisional British Junior record, entering the final one point behind
Graham Rudd, with a season's best of 1152. Ken overhauled Graham in the
final, breaking the British Junior Final Record along the way, with Duncan
Farmer taking the bronze. Ken also took the Junior event, with Graham,
Martin Sinclair and Donald McIntosh taking the medals in the confined event. |
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20th July 2008 |
Neil Stirton was second today in the second of
two Men's Prone at the Royal League match in Denmark. A qualification round
of 594 and a final of 103.7 placed him behind Carsten Brand of Denmark, with
Vebj�rn Berg of Norway third.
On the first day of competition Jon Hammond set
a new Personal Best of 589 in the Air Rifle event.
Elsewhere, Graham Rudd recorded 1150 - his best
score of the year to date - to win the Men's 3x40 at the Hampshire Open in
Basingstoke.
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18th July 2008 |
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Jon Hammond will complete his preparations for
Beijing this weekend in Denmark. Jon will be joined by World Cup Silver medal
winner Neil Stirton and coach Donald McIntosh at a Royal League match in
Fredericia, competing against athletes from Norway, Sweden, Denmark
and Finland in all three rifle events. Jon will return home for a few
days before heading for the Team GB holding camp in Macau at the end of the
month, and will transfer to Beijing in early August, prior to the Opening
Ceremony.
Jon's three matches will be held on the 11th (Air Rifle), 15th (Prone) and
17th (3x40) of August. |
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9th July 2008 |
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Kay Copland and Nikki Sammels, in conjunction with
England's Sheree Cox, have won Silver for Great Britain in the Women's Prone
Team event at the European Junior Championships in Pilsen. The team, which
won Gold with score equal to the World Record one month ago on the same range,
recorded a score of 1765 to tie with Sweden, losing the medal on a lower
aggregate of their fifth strings. Kay was
unfortunate to miss out
on an individual medal on countback, coming 4th with 591. |
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8th July 2008 |
Scottish Target Shooting, the umbrella Federation
for Shooting in Scotland, are advertising for a High Performance Manager.
As part of an increase in funding from SportScotland targeted towards High
Performance coaching, this role is moving from a voluntary one to a part time
contract.
Please click
here for a job
description and other information.
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updated 28th July 2008 |
Susan Jackson set a new Personal Best of 576 in
winning the 3x20 Grand Prix at Denwood on Sunday. This added three points
to her previous best, set at a Grand Prix in late 2005.Susan then
broke her own Scottish Final Record, adding 97.2 to the Qualification score for
a total of 673.2.
Susan now takes lead in the series, 30 points to Emma Cole-Hamilton's 24, with two
events remaining.
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5th July 2008 |
Neil Stirton and Donald McIntosh will be spending
six days in Macau and Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games as part of the BOA's
Olympic Ambitions 2012 programme.
See
here for
more details.
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4th July 2008 |
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Jim Cole-Hamilton successfully retained the Haig
Long Range Scottish Championships today in Dumfries. Shortly after leading
Scotland to victory against England, Jim produced another very solid display in
quite challenging wind. A score of 580 gave him a two point lead over Bill
Copland, with Hugh Simpson taking the bronze ahead of Donald McIntosh on
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4th July 2008 |
Scotland won the Home Countries International match
against England today at Dumfries. An outstanding 395 from Jim
Cole-Hamilton led the team home, with a winning margin of 26 points. The
Ladies team fared less well, losing heavily to England. Scottish scores
are available here.
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3rd July 2008 |
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The following teams from Scotland
will take part in the Home Countries Prone Matches at Dumfries tomorrow:
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Women's Team |
Main Team |
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Kay Copland |
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Sheena Sharp |
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Karen Nilsen |
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Mary Melvin |
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Jennifer McIntosh |
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Lucy Martin |
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Captain: Fiona Shedden |
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Secretary: Judy Foster |
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Jim Cole-Hamilton |
Hugh Simpson |
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Kay Copland |
Graham Shedden |
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Bill Copland |
Richard Simpson |
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James Paterson |
Cyril De Jonckheere |
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Rory McAlpine |
John Smith |
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Ian Thomson |
Mike Ozmond |
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Captain: Tom Hodgson |
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Secretary: Cyril De Jonckheere |
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Congratulations to Rory McAlpine, Graham Shedden and John Smith
for making the team for the first time and to Richard Simpson for making the
team at his first Scottish since 1987, where he earned the last of his six
previous caps.
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3rd July 2008 |
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After 25 years of trying Cliff Ogle finally won the
only major trophy at the Scottish Meeting to have eluded him, taking with
Wilkinson Sword for the Scottish Long Range Matchplay Championship ahead of Nick
Mullins and defending champion Jim Cole-Hamilton. In Classes C&D Fraser
Cheetham successfully retained the Sgian Dubh, beating Jennifer McIntosh and
Lawrence Cooper.
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updated 3rd July 2008 |
Very briefly, here is a summary of the Scottish
winners from completed Aggregates at the Scottish Meeting at Dumfries:
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Class A |
Class B |
Class C |
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Comp 4 (40 @ 50m) |
Jon Latimer - 1st
Cliff Ogle - 2nd= Kay
Copland - 2nd= |
Rory McAlpine - 2nd=
Graham Shedden - 2nd= |
Ian MacDougall - 2nd
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Fraser Cheetham - 2nd
Simon Batchelor - 3rd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
S Gemmell - 3rd |
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Comp 5 (60 @ 100yd) |
James Paterson - 2nd=
Bill Copland - 2nd= |
Graham Shedden - 3rd= |
Ian Burton - 1st Karen Nilsen - 3rd |
Fraser Cheetham - 2nd
Ian Henderson - 3rd |
K Mackenzie - 1st
Jennifer McIntosh - 2nd
Andrew McAulay - 3rd |
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Comp 6 (Squadded Aggregate) |
Jim Cole-Hamilton - 2nd
Kay Copland - 3rd |
Rory McAlpine - 2nd= |
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Fraser Cheetham - 1st
Simon Batchelor - 2nd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
S Gemmell - 3rd |
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Comp 13 (Unsquadded Aggregate) |
Jim Cole-Hamilton - 1st
Cliff Ogle - 2nd= |
Rory McAlpine - 1st
Graham Shedden - 2nd |
Gregor Bremner - 1st
Steven Blackwood - 3rd |
Fraser Cheetham - 1st
Gordon Buchan - 2nd
Willie McAuley - 3rd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
K Mackenzie - 2nd
Jonty Barron - 3rd |
Alloa & District (Cliff Ogle, Mike Ozmond & Donald McIntosh)
won both the Scottish 50m and Scottish 100yd team championships for the
Pullar Targe and ICI Challenge Cup respectively, while Bon Accord (Jim
Cole-Hamilton, Sheena Sharp and Jon Latimer) won both of the open team
competitions for the New Zealand Shield and Lord Forteviot Cup, setting a
new Scottish team record in the Forteviot, with Alloa second in both.
Bon Accord also won the Ron Russell trophy for the Aggregate team, adding a
massive 46 points to the Scottish record. The Banff & Macduff pair of
Bill and Kay Copland won the pairs event ahead of Mike and Andrew Ozmond of
Alloa, with Aberdeenshire winning the County Sextette from Forth & Clyde.
Rory McAlpine won the Junior Championship from Jennifer McIntosh and Andrew
Ozmond, while Cyril De Jonckheere won the Veterans. Graham Shedden won
the Daily Telegraph, with Jim Cole-Hamilton sharing the Chas R E Bell trophy
with Michelle Smith.
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1st July 2008 |
Jon Hammond has been formally selected by the
British Olympic Association to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games in
Beijing.
Jon won GBR's only quota place in the rifle events, with fourth
at last year's European Championships, and will compete in the Men's 10m Air
Rifle, 50m Prone and 50m Three Positions events.
He will be joined by four other British Shooters,
all competing in the Shotgun events.
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1st July 2008 |
Very briefly, here is a summary of the Scottish
winners from the first half of the Aggregate at the Scottish Meeting at Dumfries:
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Class X |
Class A |
Class B |
Class C |
Class D |
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Comp 2 (60 @ 50m) |
Kay Copland - 2nd
Jim Cole-Hamilton - 3rd |
Rory McAlpine - 1st
Richard Simpson - 3rd |
Mary Melvin - 2nd
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Fraser Cheetham - 1st
Simon Batchelor - 2nd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
C Duncan - 3rd |
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Comp 3 (40 @ 100yd) |
Jim Cole-Hamilton - 1st
Bill Copland - 3rd |
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Karen Nilsen - 3rd |
Fraser Cheetham - 1st
Simon Batchelor - 2nd
Fraser Sands - 3rd |
Andrew McAuley - 1st
Jennifer McIntosh - 2nd
S Gemmell - 3rd |
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1st July 2008 |
The following shooters have qualified for the final
of the Haig on Friday afternoon:
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Jim Cole-Hamilton
Kay Copland
Bill Copland
Donald McIntosh
Rory McAlpine |
Sheena Sharp
J P Lynch
Graham Shedden
Ian Shanks
Ian Thomson |
Mike Ozmond
Hugh Simpson
Gregor Bremner
Bill Vaughan
James Paterson |
Bill Hamilton
John Smith
Richard Simpson
Simon Batchelor
Bruce McIntosh |
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1st July 2008 |
Very briefly, here is a summary of the Scottish
winners from the weekend's competitions at the Scottish Meeting at Dumfries:
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Class X |
Class A |
Class B |
Class C |
Class D |
|
Comp 1 (Dewar/Haig) |
Cliff Ogle - 1st
Jim Cole-Hamilton - 2nd
Hugh Simpson - 3rd |
Mike Ozmond - 1st |
Gregor Bremner - 2nd
Steven Blackwood - 3rd |
Simon Batchelor - 1st
Pat Gray - 2nd
Fraser Cheetham - 3rd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st |
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Comp 7 (Early Birds) |
James Paterson - 2nd
Hugh Simpson - 3rd |
Mike Low - 1st |
Ian McDougall - 1st |
Gordon Buchan - 1st
Simon Batchelor - 2nd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st |
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Comp 8 (Gregory Salver) |
Cliff Ogle - 1st
Kay Copland - 3rd |
Sorry,
missed this one! |
Ian McDougall - 1st
Steven Blackwood - 2nd
Gregor Bremner - 3rd |
Gordon Buchan - 1st
Fraser Cheetham - 2nd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
Ally Littlejohn - 2nd |
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Weekend Aggregate |
James Paterson - 1st
Jon Latimer - 2nd |
Mike Ozmond - 2nd |
Ian McDougall - 1st
Gregor Bremner - 3rd |
Gordon Buchan - 1st
Simon Batchelor - 2nd
Pat Gray - 3rd |
Jennifer McIntosh - 1st
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16th June 2008 |
Matt Thomson won the Men's Prone yesterday at the
British 50m Championships at Bisley. A qualification round of 594 took him
into the final in first place, just ahead of Northern Ireland junior Matthew
Hall, and although the gap was narrowed at times, Matt retained his lead
throughout, to win his first senior GB title. Mel Mutch also qualified for
the final, ending up in fifth place.There
were Scottish medallists in all of the other events also - Graham Rudd taking
Silver in the Men's 3x40, with James Paterson, Martin Sinclair and Brian Inglis
fifth through seventh respectively. Emma Cole-Hamilton took Bronze in the
Women's 3x20, with Sheena Sharp fourth, and Emma took Bronze again in the
Women's Prone, with Sheena fourth again, and Susan Jackson fifth.
Matt also combined with Neil Stirton and James
Paterson to win the Men's Prone international match, with all three of the other
Scottish teams coming second to England despite the Women's Prone team raising
the Scottish Record by one point. Susan Jackson becomes the fifth Scottish
athlete to hold 50 international caps, joining Robin Law, Cyril De Jonckheere,
Donald McIntosh and Sheena Sharp.
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12th June 2008 |
The following teams have been selected for the
inaugural Home Countries international matches being held concurrent with the
NSRA British 50m International Championships at Bisley this coming weekend:
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Men's Prone |
Women's Prone |
Men's 3x40 |
Women's 3x20 |
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James Paterson
Neil Stirton
(Capt)
Matthew Thomson |
Susan Jackson
Nikki Sammels
Sheena Sharp (Capt) |
James Paterson
Graham Rudd
(Capt)
Martin Sinclair |
Emma Cole-Hamilton
Susan
Jackson (Capt)
Sheena Sharp |
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12th June 2008 |
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The Caithness Grand Prix was held at the end of May
this year, and entries were generally pretty low. James Henderson won both
Class A and the A&B Grand Prix with some steady shooting, Mike Ozmond and David
Bremner picking up the minor medals in the Grand Prix. A week later the
series moved to Gagie, on the outskirts of Dundee, where Matthew Thomson was
dominant, winning the Grand Prix with 595 and 103.6 ahead of Cyril De Jonckheere
and Hugh Simpson.
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9th June 2008 |
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Neil Stirton made his debut as a Three Positions
shooter on Saturday at Denwood in remarkable fashion. A qualification
round score of 1143 was only two points behind the highly experienced Graham
Rudd, and even more remarkably Neil overhauled Graham in the Final with a new
Scottish Final record of 101.4. Neil took up Air Rifle in the autumn of
2007, which has undoubtedly helped with picking up the smallbore rifle in the
Standing position, but only shot in the Kneeling position for the first time in
late March, and to achieve a debut at this standard is unprecedented in Scottish
shooting.
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7th June 2008 |
The three Scottish junior women attending the
Shooting Hopes competition in Pilsen this week have all been part of Great
Britain teams that have set new British Junior Team records this week.
Yesterday Jennifer McIntosh joined up with Sheree Cox and Melanie Flowers in the
Women's Air Rifle to add one point to the existing record, which had been set in
Sweden ten years ago. Today Kay Copland and Nikki Sammels joined up with
Sheree to win Gold in the Junior Women's Prone team, raising the existing record
(which Nikki had helped to set last year) by a massive 11 points.
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4th June 2008 |
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Four Scottish rifle shooters - Kay Copland, Nikki
Sammels, Ollie Barron and Robin Honhold - have been selected by British Shooting
to attend the European Junior Championships, which will be held in Pilsen from
7th to 11th July. The four Scots will be joined by England's Sheree Cox
and Ken Parr to complete teams for both the Men's and Women's Prone.
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4th June 2008 |
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All six members of the Scottish Under 25 squad are
heading for Pilsen over the next couple of days, to take part in the Shooting
Hopes junior international as part of a GBR team. Ollie Barron, Kay
Copland, Robin Honhold, Rory McAlpine, Jennifer McIntosh and Nikki Sammels will
all shoot in the Prone matches, with Jennifer also competing in the Air Rifle.
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19th May 2008 |
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Not satisfied with equalling the British & Scottish
record yesterday, Neil Stirton today raised both to 599 on his way to winning
the Silver medal at the World Cup in Munich. Neil entered the final in
second place, tied with World Champion Sergei Martynov, and the two shooters
battled it out in a very close final. Neil held a narrow lead going into
the last shot, but was unfortunate to be overtaken, Martynov winning by 0.1
points.
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18th May 2008 |
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Neil Stirton equalled the Scottish & British Record
for the Men's 50m Prone event today at the ISSF World Cup in Munich.
Shooting in the elimination round, Neil raised his Personal Best by two points
to 598. Neil, along with fellow Scots Jon Hammond and Matt Thomson has
qualified for tomorrow's main event, which kicks-off at 8:30 German time. |
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15th May 2008 |
Martin Sinclair won two out of two SSRA Grand Prix
matches at the weekend, 1140 + 94.6 in the Men's Three Positions unchallenged,
and 594 + 105.4 seeing off the challenge of Dave Caughey and James Henderson in
the Prone Grand Prix. Emma Cole-Hamilton won the Women's 3x20 match, with
567 + 92.8, and Beverley Burnside was eight points clear in the C&D Grand Prix,
with Jon Malone and Fraser Cheetham picking up the silver and bronze medals.
Bill Copland was the highest scorer of the day in the Open section, winning
Class A with 595, four points clear of Martin, with David Cummings third with
589. Class B was won by Robin Honhold, three points ahead of Ian Thomson
despite incurring penalty points, with Dave Caughey third. Roger Esson won
Class C with 588 ahead of Fraser Cheetham and Beverley Burnside, while Seoc
Malone won Class D ahead of Simon Batchelor and Bruce McIntosh.
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9th May 2008 |
The Scottish team of James Paterson, Martin MacGill
and Graham Rudd came fourth in the Men's Prone team today in Pilsen. An
equal personal best of 594 from James combined with 592 from both Graham and
Martin gave the team a total of 1778, just two points away from the Bronze, and
four points away from the Gold.James concluded the week with a second
Personal Best, 1132 in the 3x40 adding eight points to the mark set in Hannover
the week previously.
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9th May 2008 |
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Brian Inglis took the Silver medal in the Men's
Three Positions event at the English Open Championships over the Bank Holiday
weekend. A Qualification Round of 1125 earned him a share of first place
with England's 12-times Commonwealth Games medallist Chris Hector, and although
Hector pulled away over the final ten shots, Brian held on to second place.
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9th May 2008 |
Neil Stirton and Matthew Thomson, shooting as two
thirds of a Great Britain team, took silver medals in the Men's Prone team event
at the recent International Shooting Competition in Hannover. Teamed up
with Welsh Commonwealth Champion Dave Phelps, the team were three points behind
winners Switzerland, with the German regional team from Westphalia in third
place.Robin Honhold was the highest placed individual athlete, with
sixth place in the Junior Men's Prone, while James Paterson set a new Personal
Best of 1124 in the Men's 3x40.
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16th April 2008 |
The Classifications for the SSRA Prone Grand
Prix meetings is now available
here.
This year sees a change in the Grand Prix series, with Grand Prix points
being available to non-members, including those not eligible to represent
Scotland. Points will be
awarded to the top eight rather than the top six shooters, again subject to
them contesting the final. Points awarded will be 12, 9, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2
and 1 for 1st to 8th respectively.
In addition, the Grand Prix for Classes C&D will be expanded to a full 60 shot
match.
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16th April 2008 |
West Atholl Rifle Club assisted by Blair Atholl
Gun Club and Blair Atholl Small-bore Rifle Club will again be hosting the
Scottish Multi-discipline Shooting Championships at the Jubilee Range, Blair
Atholl on 17th May, 2008. NB change to Saturday this year. The course of
fire will comprise:
| Full-bore
rifle 2 sighters and 10 rounds to count at 500x
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Small-bore
rifle sighters and 10 rounds to count at 50yards
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| Clay target
practice and 10 clays “DTL” |
Air pistol
practice and ten shots to count at 10m |
Competitors will be ranked in each event and the rankings added together
to determine the overall winner and team winners. Depending on entries,
prize money will be distributed to the leading competitors. The event will
not be squadded so competitors may choose when to shoot each event between
9.30 and 3.30. Depending on entries some events may close earlier.
The day will be an official “guest day” for both West Atholl Rifle Club
and Blair Atholl Small-bore Rifle Clubs which will allow competitors without
their own rifles to use club rifles under one to one supervision. To comply
with rules for guest days all competitors must belong to a recognised
organisation such as a Rifle or Clay Target shooting club or be known to the
organisers. All competitors will be required to exhibit membership of such a
club or give the name of a sponsor from the organising clubs or exhibit
their personal FAC. The event will have Section 11(6) exemption allowing
competitors without their own shotguns to use shotguns under one to one
supervision. Competitors exhibiting their personal SGC will not require
supervision for the shotgun stage. Air pistols will also be available. All
competitors without their own FAC or SGC will be required to sign a
declaration that they are not prohibited from handling firearms. Ammunition
will be available at cost for use on the range only. “F” class and sporting
rifles may be used in the full bore stage but will be handicapped by one
scoring ring relative to pure “TR” rifles. Only non-expanding rifle
ammunition may be used. It is expected that the new electronic full-bore
targets will be in use so there should be no need for butt marking but
competitors may be called upon to assist as coaches or RCOs. Directions to
the range may be found at www.westatholl.org.uk or obtained from the
organiser.
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updated 16th April 2008 |
Further to the results posted on 6th April,
cards were received from the Selkirk club, delayed for reasons outwith their
control, and have been accepted. This changes the outcome of both
Class B and the Veterans.The final results of the 2008 individual postal
competitions have now been posted on the
Domestic Results page. Hugh Simpson won the Class A medal with
299, one ahead of a three-way tie for second place. Jim Michael won
Class B with 296 for a one point lead. Class C was more clear-cut, Ian Henderson
romping home with 296 and a six point lead, while Simon Batchelor cleaned up
in Class D, with 290 for the same winning margin.
297 was required
to win the Veterans, Bill Vaughan taking the title, while 296 was good
enough for the Junior section, Rory
McAlpine the victor, and Pat Gray was the most consistent
shooter in the CanDicap, a net total of 300 just enough to take victory.
Donald McIntosh won the Short Range 3P title, 399 prone and 393 kneeling
making up for some rather low scoring standing.
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7th April 2008 |
Bon Accord won the British Team of Six
Championship for the "News of the World" trophy yesterday in Wigan.
In a repeat of the Scottish Cup last month, only two of the four
teams who qualified for the semi-finals were able to attend, leaving
Bon the task of beating Marlow for the championship - something they
achieved by a margin of 1175 to 1165.In the Individual
Championship, Hugh Simpson was third, with Nick Baker and Mike
Ozmond also making the top ten.
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7th April 2008 |
On Sunday 20th April the
combined All-Ranges and Inter-Region matches are being held at the
Denwood Target Shooting Centre in Aberdeen.
The All-ranges Open Meeting
comprises shooting at 25 yards, 50 metres and 100 yards within an
Aggregate. Competitions for individuals are held in 5 classes under
NSRA rules, and NSRA Classification will be used, with the addition
of an E class for beginners. Competitors who do not have an NSRA
classification must submit an average of their most recent 10 short
range competition targets and will be classified as shown. Those
with NSRA ‘X’ classification will shoot in ‘A’ class.
Concurrent competitions for
Women, Juniors (U18 and U21) and Veterans (O55) will also be held
concurrent with the Aggregate with all age groups applying on the
day of the competition. In addition, competitions for club teams of
3 are included in Short Range, Double Dewar and Aggregate. Subject
to receiving a sufficient entry, an inexpert team competition for
teams whose members are in C, D and E classes will also be held.
Handicap pairs in Short Range, Dewar and Aggregate for modest cash
prizes will be based on MacRae scores, calculated using either the
competitor’s submitted average or the upper limit average for his
classification, i.e 100 for A class, 98 for B class, etc.
Sweepstakes will be run for single cards at each distance and in
each class. 60% of this entry fee will be returned in prizes.
The Inter-Region Short Range
Match Trophy will be shot concurrently with the 25 yard competition
and the Inter-Region Dewar Match for the Bob Normand Trophy will be
shot concurrently with the Double Dewar competition. Teams are
cordially invited from Lothian, Forth & Clyde, Fife, Highland,
Grampian, Southern Counties, Perthshire and Angus. Where a region
consists of more than one NSRA affiliated area, such an area may,
with the mutual consent of the other areas in their region, enter
teams in the Inter-Region Matches. Each Inter-Region match is for
teams of 5, or of 6 with the best 5 to count. The team members for
the Short-range Inter-Region Match and the Dewar Inter-Region match
need not be the same.
All team members for the club
team competitions and for the Inter-Region matches must be nominated
before any team member shoots.
Details will commence at 9.30 am
and will start on the hour and half hour on all ranges, with 2
targets being fired during each half hour at 25 yards. Ten minutes
will be allowed for each 25 yards target and 20 minutes for each 50
metres and 100 yards target. All entrants are urged to book their
details in advance. Entries on the day will be accepted if
squadding is available.
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7th April 2008 |
The following team will represent
Scotland at the second International Shooting Competition in
Hannover, from 30th April to 4th May:
| Senior Men: |
Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40
& Air), Martin MacGill (Prone), Sinclair Bruce (Prone),
James Paterson (Prone & 3x40) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone,
3x40 & Air), Susan Jackson (Prone, 3x40 & Air) |
| Junior Men: |
Robin Honhold (Prone) |
| Junior Women: |
Nicola Sammels (Prone),
Kay Copland (Prone) |
The following team will represent
Scotland at the Grand Prix of Liberation in Pilsen, from 7th to 11th
May:
| Senior Men: |
Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40
& Air), Martin MacGill (Prone), James Paterson (Prone &
3x40) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone,
3x40 & Air) |
In addition to these teams, Matthew Thomson & Neil Stirton will
be attending Hannover as part of the Great Britain team, with Neil
also attending Pilsen.
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5th April 2008 |
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The Association are delighted to announce that
Ian Henderson of Larbert & District Rifle Club has been appointed as Acting
Executive Officer. Ian has been co-opted onto Council to fill one of the
existing vacancies, and has agreed to fulfil this role in the interim,
through until the AGM, where he will stand for election. The AGM will be
held on the first Saturday of the NSRA Scottish Meeting in Dumfries, and
official notification will be issued to members in due course.
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4th April 2008 |
The Team Postal League has just concluded its
programme and there were some close results in the run-in. In Division 1
Watsonians A led for the first seven rounds and were four points ahead of
nearest challengers Callander A. Two lost matches later, including one to
Callander, they were tied on points and down on aggregate and suddenly in
second place. The key match in round 10 was Bon Accord v Callander, and
it proved to be decisive as the Aberdeen team won it with a fine score of
396 (including three 100s) to let Watsonians, who sneaked past Banff in
their last match, win this league for the third year in succession.
Callander can consider themselves unlucky as they had by far the best
aggregate.
In Division 2. Selkirk were the best scorers,
and could afford to lose their last match to second-placed Clachnacuddin A,
to win by one point in a two-horse race.
Larbert & District 'owned' Division 3, only
dropping three points (the one match lost being due to a disqualified card),
and finished well ahead of Edinburgh University A and Callander B.
Division 4 was the closest - Orkney A tied
with Alloa & District B on 14 points each and islanders won by only 10
points on aggregate - only one point per round. Steeple were not far behind
and if Watsonians B (who had the second best aggregate) had not lost their
last three matches, two by only one point, to the three teams who finished
above them, it might have been a different story.
Division 5 saw Orkney's B team pretty-well
walk away with it, leaving Clachnacuddin C and Aberdeen University in their
wake.
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25th March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond came fifth in the Men's Prone at
at the ISSF World Cup in Rio De Janeiro. A qualification round of 596 earned
him a share of third place before the final, to which he added 102.5 for fifth
place. This was Jon's first World Cup final,
following on from his fourth place at the European Championships last summer,
and is an excellent start to his Olympic campaign.
As report below, Jon now has a short turnaround from South America over to South
East Asia. The British rifle shooters selected for the second World Cup,
in Beijing, will first visit Macau for a short holding camp at the venue which
will be used by the British Olympic Association prior to the Games in August.
Elsewhere, Neil Stirton and Emma Cole-Hamilton are part of the British squad
heading for a training camp in Granada from 7th to 13th April. They will
be joined by Robin Honhold and Ollie Barron, who have been invited to attend the
camp as guests following on from their performances in Dortmund earlier in the
month. |
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23rd March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond and Matt Thomson are two of the
three British rifle shooters selected by British Shooting for the ISSF World Cup
in Beijing, which will be held between 10th and 21st April. Jon will take
part in all three Men's rifle events - Air, Prone and 3x40 - with Matt competing
in the Prone. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The Scottish rifle shooters attending the International Start of Season Match (ISAS) in Dortmund had an extremely constructive week of competition. A nine strong Scottish team was entered alongside an almost full-strength Great Britain team featuring a further three Scots.
The undoubted highlight of the week was Matthew Thomson’s win in the Men’s 50m Prone Rifle event – Matthew’s first international victory as a senior. The 2006 World Under-21 Champion shot an excellent qualification score of 597 out of a possible 600 in the 60 shot match to enter the eight person final in third place. His final
was of a standard rarely seen in any international matches, and lifted him clear of the field, leaving 2000 Olympic
Three Positions Champion Rajmond Debevec trailing in third place.
There were excellent performances elsewhere in the team – Emma Cole-Hamilton shot extremely well in the Prone and Kneeling sections of the Women’s Three Positions match, with a score of 574 her highest for 18 months. Graham Rudd also started to show some signs of excellent form, recording a score of 1148 despite a poor Prone section in the Men’s Three Positions match.
There were excellent performances also in
the Junior events, with Ollie Barron and Robin Honhold both tied on 591 in the
Junior Men’s Prone, coming 4th and 8th respectively, and Jennifer McIntosh setting new Personal Best scores of 387 and 589 in both the Junior Women’s Air Rifle and Junior Women’s Prone matches respectively. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The NSRA Scottish Short Range Individual and Team of
Six Championships were held yesterday at Denwood. Jim Cole-Hamilton was a
clear winner in the individual, with 398, ahead of Mike Ozmond on 396 and James
Paterson, Ian Shanks and John Sinclair on 395.
The junior title, decided on the second postal
stage, went to Ollie Barron.
Of the four teams that had qualified for the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup,
neither Wick Old Stagers or Callander were able to field a team on the day,
leaving Halkirk to take on Bon Accord in the final, the home team winning by 1169 to 1154. |
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17th March 2008 |
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Mark Joyce and Robin Law took the honours in
the final Air Rifle & Pistol Grand Prix of the winter, successfully defending
their series titles from the previous season. Robin came close to his best
form with a solid 588 and with a 16 point lead over Steven Watterson going into
the final he was effectively unchallenged. Things were a little closer in
the Air Pistol, where Bruce McIntosh started the match on top of the points
table, but Mark Joyce took an eight point lead into the final and secured the 9
points to overhaul Bruce at the last. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The following teams represented Scotland in
the annual postal international match against a team from the North Island of
New Zealand:
Main Team:
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Dave Caughey
Jim Cole-Hamilton
Bill Copland
David Cummings
Scott Dixon |
James Henderson
Tom Hodgson
Tim Kidner
Gordon Motion
Mike Ozmond
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James Paterson
Ronnie Sellar
John Sinclair
Robin Thomson Bill Vaughan |
| Reserves: Kay Copland, Callum Rose |
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Junior Team:
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Kay Copland
Andrew Laurie
Ian McDougall
Callum Rose
Andrew Ross |
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The results will be announced once the Kiwis have shot their cards in
September. Congratulations to Andrew Laurie, Ian McDougall, Callum Rose &
Andrew Ross for making their first appearance
in the Junior team. Top scorers for Scotland were Gordon Motion
in the main team and Ian McDougall in the Junior team. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The final of the British Team of Four for the
Burroughs & Watts cup will be contested between Bon Accord and Callander.
The cards have to be shot during the first half of April, so a result should be
announced in about four - five weeks time. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The Forth & Clyde county team have raised
their own Scottish Record in the NSRA Inter-County League. The team,
consisting of Robin Law, Jennifer McIntosh, Donald McIntosh, Tricia Littlechild
and Cliff Ogle, scored 1434 in Round 7, raising the record by four points. |
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3rd March 2008 |
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David Cummings won the "Speedway" Scottish
Short Range Matchplay Championships held yesterday at the Balerno & Currie club
on the outskirts of Edinburgh. David won 24 points from the five matches,
giving him a one point lead over last year's winner Bill Copland, with a late
charge giving Ollie Barron third place one further point behind.
The matchplay format can be harsh - the best
aggregate of the day was Hugh Simpson with 989, two points ahead of David, but
the timing of his scores meant that he ended up in eighth place!
The Class C&D event was won by Andrew Ross, with Fraser Cheetham having to
settle for the runner-up spot for the second year running, with Ian Henderson in
third place. |
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1st March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond shot a personal best of 585 in the
Men's Air Rifle at the European Championships in Winterthur, SUI, earlier today.
Although not competitive in a match that saw the World Record of 600 equalled by
Denis Sokolov of Russia, this secures Jon a Minimum Qualification Score in this
event for the Olympic Games, and should he be selected for Beijing he will be
able to take part in all three of the men's rifle events. |
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25th February 2008 |
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Jennifer McIntosh became British Junior Air
Rifle Champion at Bisley last Sunday, at the age of 16. A qualification
round of 385 set a new Personal Best, and gave her a one point lead going into
the ten-shot final over Hannah Pugsley, with Rebekah Pidgley one point further
behind. After a closely fought final, during which it appeared at times
that all three girls might be able to extend a lead, Jennifer and Hannah were
tied for first place. A sudden-death tie-shot was required, Jennifer
taking the title with 10.1 to Hannah's 8.8.
Graham Rudd also featured on the podium, with second in the Senior Men's event
to 17 year old James Huckle. Graham narrowly fended off the challenge of
third placed Chris Hector, who was tied with him after nine shots in the final.
Sheena Sharp was the other Scottish finalist, taking 6th place in the Senior
Women's event. Elsewhere over the weekend,
Jennifer won Class B comfortably, and featured along side Emma Cole-Hamilton and
Graham Rudd in the Scottish team that came second to England in the Home
Countries match. Jennifer and Emma were joined by Sheena in the Scottish
Ladies team, also coming second to England, with the highest Scottish team score
to date in this match. Sheena also made it a Home Countries double,
appearing alongside fellow Commonwealth Games rifle medallist Janis Thomson and
Caroline Brownlie in the Scottish Air Pistol Ladies team! |
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19th February 2008 |
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A Scottish smallbore rifle team will be
attending the ISAS International Match in Dortmund for the first time in a
number of years. The team is:
| Senior Men: |
Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Martin MacGill
(Prone) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Susan Jackson
(Prone, 3x40 & Air) |
| Junior Men: |
Robin Honhold (Prone), Ollie Barron
(Prone), Rory
McAlpine (Prone) |
| Junior Women: |
Nicola Sammels (Prone), Jennifer McIntosh
(Air & Prone) |
They will be accompanied by coaches Donald McIntosh and
Sinclair Bruce. Neil Stirton, Matthew Thomson and Emma Cole-Hamilton
will also be competing, as part of the Great Britain team. The match
takes place between 10th and 16th March.
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19th February 2008 |
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Graham Rudd completed a very steady series of
performances at Intershoot with an appearance in the final on the third day.
Three consecutive scores of 589 were the most consistently high scoring
performance from Graham to date, taking eleventh place on each of the first two days and
eighth place on the final day. |
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19th February 2008 |
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Bruce McIntosh and Robin Law took the lead in
the Air Pistol and Air Rifle Grand Prix series respectively with wins at the
fourth event of the winter, held in Dumfries on the 10th of February. The
final event will be held at Glenrothes on the 9th of March. |
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6th February 2008 |
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Graham Rudd will represent Scotland in the The
Netherlands this week, at the Intershoot competition. This Air Rifle &
Pistol match is held annually in The Hague, and for the first time will be shot
entirely on electronic targets. Graham joins a small team of Pistol
shooters in representing Scotland, and full details can be found on
www.intershoot.nl. |
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20th January 2008 |
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Emma Cole-Hamilton and Graham Rudd
successfully defended their Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan over
the weekend. Earlier in the weekend Emma had broken her own Scottish
Women's record, raising it by a point to 392, and although her championship
qualifier was a little lower at 388 she entered the final four points ahead of
Jennifer McIntosh, with Sheena Sharp in third place. The additional ten
shots saw no changes in position, with Jennifer winning the Junior title in
addition to taking the Senior silver. In the
Men's event, Graham Rudd had a comfortable lead of eight points going into the
final with 584, with Donald McIntosh just ahead of Robin Law with 576 and 575
respectively. Robin overtook Donald on the first shot of the final, and
remained in second place to the end. Callum Seale took the Junior Men's
title. Full results can be found
here.
As a precursor to the Prize Giving, six of the initial inductees to the SSRA
Hall of Fame were presented with commemorative badges and certificates. |
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9th January 2008 |
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Many visitors to this site will be aware that the
proposed venue for the Shooting events at the 2012 Olympic Games is a temporary
facility constructed at Woolwich
Barracks. This site will not provide a suitable venue, however despite the best efforts of
British Shooting and it's member bodies, the organisers are insistent that
Woolwich will be the venue. This will leave Shooting in this country with no lasting legacy
unlike the majority of other Olympic sports.
An E petition to move the venue has been uploaded onto the 10 Downing St
website: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OlympicShooting
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9th January 2008 |
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Under the guise of the National
Association of Target Shooting Sports (NATSS), the Clay Pigeon Shooting
Association (which governs Clay Target shooting in England), the National Rifle
Association and the National Small-bore Rifle Association are participating in a
programme to shape the future of target shooting in the UK and examine the
potential, like most sports today, for a ‘common vision, common voice’ strategy
for the future of our sport.
As this first stage in the process, an Open Forum was staged
at the Bisley National Shooting Centre with the aim of gathering approximately
100 representatives, evenly drawn from amongst the three governing bodies, to
launch the programme of work, and to give a wider audience the chance to hear
about, and react to, the work planned. The SSRA was represented by its
Chairman, Ian Thomson. A report on the Forum may be viewed by clicking
here.
The second stage of the consultation process is the launch of
an online survey. You can access this by using the following link:
Online Survey. |
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7th January 2008 |
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Emma Cole-Hamilton and Mark Joyce started 2008 with wins in
the Air Grand Prix at Denwood last Saturday. Emma broke Tricia
Littlechild's nine year old record for the ten shot final, with an excellent
103.4, taking the nine points in the rifle event. Robin Law secured his
third consecutive second place to move up to equal first in the Rifle series
with two events remaining. In the Pistol series, Mark moved one ahead of
Jennifer Pearson. |
| Scottish Air Rifle
Championships |
7th January 2008 |
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The Scottish 10m Air Rifle Championships are being held
at the Scottish Police College, Tulliallan, on the 19th and 20th of this
month. The programme includes an Aggregate competition of two 60
shot matches, in four classes, along with the Scottish Open and Scottish
Confined Championships for Men and Women in both Senior and Junior
categories. Entries are due by the 12th of January,
entries received after that date will be accepted, but a late entry fee
will be charged. Please contact
Donald McIntosh for an entry
form if you do not already have one. |
| Commonwealth Youth Games
2008 |
7th January 2008 |
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Information relating to the 2008 Commonwealth Youth
Games is available on the Scottish
Target Shooting website. |
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