GB Junior International Bisley

Sparks

Been a bit behind on the posting of ISSF stuff of late for personal reasons, sorry 'bout that. Time to start again!

From the Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club website:

GB Junior International Bisley
Contributed by Geoff Cooney
Tuesday, 22 August 2006


Four of our Juniors donned the National Colours and headed for Bisley to take part in the GB Junior International Match. Elizabeth, Paula Damien and Susan were all delighted and keen to get to this match directly after the World Championships. This match consists of ur juniors each shooting two air rifle matches with teams from Germany, the UK, USA and South Africa.



Damien was first in to shoot for us on Tuesday and he scored 572 in his relay to finish 3rd. This score qualified Damien to shoot in the final in 8th place. In the final, he shot 99.3, Nearly three points better than Stephen Scherer from the USA, Damien was unable to pass him out and gain a place. So Damien remained in 8th place with a score of 671.3 over all.

On the following day, saw our ladies take to the court. Our three girls Susan, Elizabeth and Paula entered the competition as individuals and as a team. Susan faired out best in the elimination round scoring 382 / 400. Sadly this placed Susan in 9th place, outside the cut off for the final, which was won be Sandra Fong from the USA, with an overall score of 487.7 / 509.

Paula had a great match and scored 373 / 400 to take 18th place. While Elizabeth shot well below her best scoring 358 / 400 to see her into 24th place.

The ladies team with a combined score of 1113 finished well down the field in 6th place some 44 points behind the USA 2 team on 1157.

Our ladies were well out gunned on this day. Much learned, more to do.

Our fortunes improved greatly on the following day.



Damien wins the gold medal in the air rifle grand prix match, with a score of 574. Well done Damien.

In the ladies grand prix match, Susan ties with Freya Pascall of the GB for fourth place, but is dropped down to fifth after count back.

Elizabeth has a better day today in scoring 361 and Paula's score today drops a bit to 361 also. Elizabeth and Paula finish in 9th and 10th places respectively.

Our juniors had a good trip, learned a lot and while their scores would be below expected, nonetheless good performances from all. And great to have a gold medal coming home.

Sparks

From the NTSA website:

GB Junior International 2006.
Contributed by Patrick O'Brien
Tuesday, 29 August 2006



Damien Fagan takes home the Gold at this years GB Junior International competition.

Fresh back from competition at the 49th ISSF World Shooting Championship, where Damien along with Susan & Paula Cunningham, Elizabeth O'Hagan and Leslie Fagan had been representing Ireland, the same team of Irish juniors was again selected to represent Ireland at the GB Junior International held in Bisley Camp UK along with Team Manager Liam Crawford and Team Coach Barry Dagger.


Tuesday 8th August.

Damien competed today in the Junior Men's Air rifle, this match is a 60 shot match with a total time of 1 hour 45 minutes.

Damien was to score a 572 which qualified him for 8th place in the final.

During the final, which consists of 10 shots fired individually with a time of 75seconds for each shot, Damien scored 99.3 which meant he held his 8th place.

So a top 8 place on the first day of competition for Ireland.


Wednesday 9th August.

Today it was the turn of the Junior Women.

Ireland had a team of Susan & Paula Cunningham and Elizabeth O'Hagan competing in the Junior Women's Air rifle.

This match is a 40 shot match with a total time allowed of 1hour 15minutes.

Susan was to be the top placed Irish competitor with a score of 382 just missing out on qualifying for the final and finishing in 9th place.

Her sister Paula was to finish in 18th place with a score of 373.

Elizabeth finished in 24th.

The Irish team was to finish in 6th place overall.


Thursday 10th August.

Today was the Grand Prix matches in both Junior Men's and Junior Women's Air rifle.

First Match was the Junior Men's air rifle, with Damien carrying the Irish hopes.

Today Damien was to score a 574 an improvement on his first days competition and giving him a 1st place finish overall, there being no final in Grand Prix Matches.


Two hours later it was the turn of the Irish Junior women's team.

Susan scored 379 a little down on the previous days score, but giving her a 5th place finish was an improvement of 4 places on yesterdays finish.

Elizabeth was to finish in 9th place today with a score of 361 which was a good improvement on her first days match.

Paula today finished 10th with a score of 361, while the score was down on yesterdays she finished higher up the leader board.


The NTSA would like to congratulate the team for all their work both at home in training and Internationally for representing Ireland and being good ambassadors for the Sport in Ireland.


Finally Congratulations to Damien on his fine achievement on winning the Gold Medal, may he continue to improve his scores and may this medal be the first of many.


Patrick O'Brien
NTSA Team Manager.

A bit galling that Matt Fox's coaching wasn't mentioned, and it's rather a tad late to be honest, but better late than never I suppose.