[April 20] NTSA Air Rifle Nationals

Sparks

Received by email, hitting the websites soon...

National Target Shooting Association of Ireland
National Air Rifle Championships 2008

We are delighted to announce this year’s National Air Rifle Championships, which are to be held in University College Dublin’s range on the weekend of the 20th of April 2008.

The formats for this year’s competitions are as follows:

Event One: Men’s National Air Rifle Championship. This will be an Air Rifle 60 shot qualifying event leading into a 10 shot final. The three highest placed Irish men, after the final, will be the Irish National Champions and Championship medals will be awarded accordingly. Non Irish men are invited to take part also and will be eligible to win other prizes.

Event Two: Women’s National Air Rifle Championships. This will be an Air Rifle 40 shot qualifying event leading into a 10 shot final. The three highest placed Irish women, after the final, will be the Irish National Champions and Championship medals will be awarded accordingly. Non Irish women are invited to take part also and will be eligible to win other prizes.

Event Three: Junior National Air Rifle Championships, Male and Female (Under 21- I.S.S.F.). This will be based on an Air Rifle 40 shot score. The three highest placed Irish Juniors, Male and or Female will be the Irish National Champions and Championship medals will be awarded accordingly. Non Irish Juniors are invited to take part also and will be eligible to win other prizes. Juniors wishing to compete in this Event must compete in either Event One or Event Two above. In the case of male junior shooters, the 40 shot score that will be used for this junior event will be the first 40 competition shots taken from their 60 shot event above. In the case of female shooters the 40 shot score which will be used in this junior event will be the same as their 40 shot event above.
There is no separate entry into this Event.

Class Prizes: All Competitors in Classes A, B, C, and D will be able to compete for prizes in these Classes. There will be three prizes per class. For this event, the class prizes will be based on the first 40 shot score recorded from the 60 in Event One and the 40 shot score of Event Two.

Re-entry is not permitted.

The fees for event one and two are as follows:

Adult entry = €20.00

Student and / or Junior entry = €15.00.



Event Timetable

Sunday 20th of April 08
Start Time
Detail 1 9.00am

Detail 2 11.15am

Detail 3 1.30pm

Final 1 Men’s 4.00pm

Final 2 Lady’s 5.00pm

Medal Ceremony 6.00pm


Pre booking is necessary.

No entries will be accepted after 5.00pm on Thursday the 17th of April 2008.

Please contact me through the NTSA website or at acooney@iol.ie and or at 046 9054167

We wish to thank the UCD club for their continued support and use of their facilities. We wish to congratulate them too on the refurbishment of their range.

Anthony G Cooney.
Airgun Coordinator

Sparks

Hi folks,
Received just now by email, the 1000 detail for the 10m AR Nationals tomorrow has been cancelled and merged with the 1200 detail. It's just that one detail, the rest of the match proceeds as scheduled. Those booked in should have gotten an email by now, this is just in case anyone was planning on turning up unannounced for 1000.

bigred

God be with the days when Sparks was PRO, you'd get the results practically real-time. Any sign of the results from the weekend's shooting?

Sparks

Hmmm. I thought they'd be up by now allright. There were lots of photos taken and the whole match was shot on the megalinks.
Ray Kane (army) won the men's nationals, Susan Cunningham (WTSC) won the ladies and junior's medals.
The finals were fun - in the women's, the top three (Susan, Emma Lyons, Ciara Gaffney) all started on 377 and the order changed completely during the finals; and in the mens, Ray was safe on 570 at the start, but the next few were all within a point or two - 555, 553, 551, 550. And the lads in 5th and 6th going in shot right past the rest of us and up to 2nd and 3rd place - and the DURC chap in 3rd only started shooting in October...

Sparks

Okay, these are pretty bad, coming from a cameraphone, but there are better ones on the way from people who brought decent cameras on the day.


The firing line during the second detail.


The megalink electronic targets fed the scores in real time up to the computer and onto the projector for the spectators.


The firing line during the women's finals.


The lineup for the women's finals.


Liz had a good start to her sighters

Sparks

Just tidying stuff up here...

bigred

So it seems your powers of forum-giggerypokery have been restored

Sparks

Indeed! So at least the Upcoming Events and This Weekends Events threads should now work as advertised again.

Sparks

Results posted up on the NTSA website:

National Air Rifle Championships 2008 Results
Written by Geoff Cooney
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Here are the results from this years Air Rifle Championships:

AR 60
Name |Club |Elimination Score |Final Score |Combined |
Ray Kane |DFST |570 |97.5 |667.5 |1st
Jim O'Hagan |WTSC |550 |98 |648 |2nd
Lorcan O'Carroll |DURC |553 |92.7 |645.7 |3rd
Sean Baldwin |DFST |555 |87.9 |642.9 |
Mark Dennehy |WTSC |551 |91.1 |642.1 |
Shane Flynn |WTSC |538 |96.8 |634.8 |
Mike Dunne |DURC |523 |93 |616 |
Colm Brereton |WTSC |504 |78.4 |582.4 |
Colin Fowler |DURC |498 | | |
John Lancaster |UCDRC |486 | | |
Dave Murray |DFST |480 | | |
Mark Casey |WTSC |336 | | |

AR 40
Name |Club |Elimination Score |Final Score |Combined |
Susan Cunningham |WTSC |377 |103 |480 |1st
Emma Lyons |UCDRC |377 |97 |474 |2nd
Ciara Gaffney |UCDRC |377 |96.9 |473.9 |3rd
Elizabeth O'Hagan |WTSC |369 |92.9 |461.9 |
Paula Cunningham |WTSC |364 |97.2 |461.2 |
Laura Cunningham |WTSC |362 |92.4 |454.4 |
Laura Kidd |DURC |360 |91.3 |451.3 |
Eleanor Mollett |DURC |353 | | |
Pavlina Mikova |DURC |333 | | |
Tara Heaney |WTSC |308 | | |

Junior AR x 40
Name |Club |Score | | |
Susan Cunningham |WTSC |377 |1st | |
Lorcan O'Carroll |DURC |368 |2nd | |
Paula Cunningham |WTSC |364 |3rd | |
Jim O'Hagan |WTSC |362 | | |
Laura Cunningham |WTSC |362 | | |
Shane Flynn |WTSC |361 | | |
Tara Heaney |WTSC |308 | | |


Class A
Name |Club |Score | | |
Ray Kane |DFST |379 |1st | |
Ciara Gaffney |UCDRC |377 |2nd | |
Susan Cunningham |WTSC |377 |3rd | |
Elizabeth O'Hagan |WTSC |369 | | |
Sean Baldwin |DFST |367 | | |
Mark Dennehy |WTSC |365 | | |
Jim O'Hagan |WTSC |362 | | |
Shane Flynn |WTSC |361 | | |

Class B
Name |Club |Score | | |
Emma Lyons |UCDRC |377 |1st | |
Paula Cunningham |WTSC |364 |2nd | |
Laura Cunningham |WTSC |362 |3rd | |
Eleanor Mollett |DURC |353 | | |
Mike Dunne |DURC |349 | | |

Class C
Name |Club |Score | | |
Lorcan O'Carroll |DURC |368 |1st | |
Laura Kidd |DURC |360 |2nd | |
Colm Brereton |WTSC |334 |3rd | |
Colin Fowler |DURC |333 | | |

Class D
Name |Club |Score | | |
Pavlina Mikova |DURC |333 |1st | |
John Lancaster |UCDRC |324 |2nd | |
Dave Murray |DFST |320 |3rd | |
Tara Heaney |WTSC |308 | | |
Mark Casey |WTSC |237 | | |

I wish to congratulate all our medal and prize winners and wish to thank all the competitors for taking part and helping to make this such an enjoyable event. I wish to thank also all the back room team who worked so hard to make the match such a success and ensured that everything worked smoothly. I wish to thank too the UCD Club for allowing us to use their excellent range. The new computer scoring target system is a joy to work with and I had to stop myself a few times from going around looking for batches of targets to be scored!
Again I wish to thank all the shooters for taking part and I am looking forward to working with all again in the near future.