Shooting sports look set to be excluded from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, reportedly due to the lack of a suitable venue. This will be the first time since 1970 that shooting has not featured at the Games and shooters have expressed shock after the BBC reported that the exclusion…
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British Shooting poised to build on Olympic success
British Shooting, the national governing body for Olympic shooting in the UK, will build upon its Rio 2016 success by seeking new funding to improve and enhance its talent pathway and working to create a new centre of excellence dedicated to training future Olympic competitors. Team GB shooters Ed Ling…
Team GB win again! Bronze for double trap champion Steve Scott!
In a British head-to-head final against fellow Team GB shooter Tim Kneale, Steve Scott will be coming home with a bronze medal after his success in the double trap. The pair had taken third and fourth positions in the semi-finals a few minutes before. However Steve Scott claimed victory scoring…
19 things to know about Ed Ling, bronze medal winner at Rio 2016
Ed is a farmer from Taunton in Somerset He won’t be hanging around in Rio to celebrate, he’s got to get back home to the West Country to help his father bring the harvest in He said: “It’ll be all hands in when I get back. It’s a mixed farm. We’ve…
Team GB shooters at the Olympics – how to keep up with what’s happening
Read profiles of the Team GB shooters here Friday 5 August Opening ceremony: 11.30pm (7.30pm) Saturday 6 August Women’s 10m air rifle (qualifiers and final) Men’s 10m air pistol (qualifiers and final Sunday 7 August Women’s 10 m air pistol (qualifiers and final) Men’s trap (qualifiers) Women’s trap (qualifiers and…
20 things you should know about Amber Hill
Her sporting hero is American Kim Rhode who won gold in London 2012 along with Olympic gold medals in Athens, Beijin and Sydney She shoots with a handmade Perazzi MX2000. She describes her Perazzi as ‘perfect’ It was specially created for her in orange and black colours She started shooting at…
A national treasure – Olympic shooter Bob Braithwaite
John Robert (Bob) Braithwaite, sadly lost to us in February 2015, was a legendary trap shooter who represented his country at two consecutive Olympics in the 1960s. A true sporting hero and one of shooting’s great natural talents, his Olympic gold medal is one of the sport’s most romantic stories. Born in 1925, the purely amateur Shot had only…
Team GB shooters excel at 2016 FCSA World Championships
The Great Britain team of .50 calibre shooters excelled at the recent Fifty Calibre Shooters Association (FCSA) World Championships, gaining a total of nine trophies. More than 400 entries from over 10 different countries Held at the NRA Whittington Center in New Mexico from 30 June to 3 July, there…
Big hand for Olympic shooters
By Peter Wilson The World Class Programme (WCP) is one of the best-kept secrets of shooting. There seems to be reluctance on behalf of UK Sport and British Shooting, the governing body that it funds via the national lottery, to advertise the help that is available to eligible athletes, despite…
Peter Wilson: An interview with an Olympic Gold medallist
Peter Wilson: With millions of hearts in as many mouths, the masses watched as Peter Wilson smoked those historic last two clays to seal Olympic glory in August last year.
Why was the shot cloud bright silver at the Olympics?
Nickel plated shot: It was fascinating to see flash clays disintegrating in the shot cloud during slow-motion replays in the TV coverage of the Olympic trap, double trap and skeet.
All seats taken for olympic shooting events
Shooting events at London 2012 started with a bang last week with sell-out crowds witnessing the first medals of the Games being won.
Peter Wilson takes Gold in Men’s Olympic Double Trap
Peter Wilson takes Gold in Men's Olympic Double Trap. After a nail biting finish, Peter Wilson has taken the Gold Medal in the Men's Olympic Double Trap, at the Royal Artillery Barracks, London 2012.
Team GB’s Pete Wilson is going for Olympic gold!
Pete Wilson: Team GB double trap shot Pete Wilson has a gold medal in his sights.
Olympic Shooting Guide: All you need to know about Shooting at the London 2012 Olympics
Olympic Shooting Guide: All you need to know about Shooting at the London 2012 Olympics.
Olympic shooting squad decided but one place still available
A mix of youth and experience makes up our Olympic shooting squad, but one place for a female Shot is still undecided.
