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Target Shooters and Cyclists raise 1,800 euro for Children in Need
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26-05-2004 4:16pm#1
From targetshootingireland.org:
The 2004 CycloShoot charity event took place Friday, May 21, in Wilkinstown, and was a roaring success, raising over 1,800 euros for the Children in Need charity. Photos of the day are in the photo gallery here.
The CycloShoot consisted of bicycle riding and air rifle shooting. The participants shot at falling plate targets with air rifles, then mounted their bicycles and cycled a circuit of 4.5miles (leaving the air rifles at the
Wilkinstown range). On their return, they then shot at another series of targets with air rifles. As this was a charity event, the participants all wore costumes for the event.
This was the first time anything like this has been done in Ireland, and generated a great deal of interest locally, with the cyclists being flagged down by observers and given donations for Children in Need on the spot. Sponsorship for the participants also ran high, with one participant, Jim
McGuirk, rising a thousand euros on his own.
The Chairman of the Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club, Matt Fox, also donated a DVD player to be raffled off on Sunday Night in Tiernan's pub in Wilkinstown, the proceeds of which were also donated to Children in Need.
Several members of the Navan Road Club now appear to have been bitten by the Target Shooting bug and will hopefully now be taking up the sport on it's own in the Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club, as will some observers who were watching the event.
Given the success of the CycloShoot, the National Target Shooting Association (the National Governing Body for Olympic Target Shooting in Ireland) in conjunction with the Federation of Irish Cyclists will be looking at the prospect of establishing Summer Biathlon as a serious competition
event for the future, and the CycloShoot itself will be run again for the 2005 Children in Need telethon.
Congratulations to all involved, and well done!0
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