Intershoot 2012

Sparks

Last year saw Ray Kane, Paul O'Boyle and Peter Friend representing Ireland in this match; this year, a larger contingent is heading over to the Hague (leaving tomorrow afternoon) - Ray, Paul, myself and Aisling Miller shooting air rifle and Caroline O'Brien and Peter Friend shooting air pistol, with Kealan Symes acting as team manager.

There's also a team coming over from Northern Ireland (Alan, David, Robert and Hugh) shooting air pistol, so there should be a few familiar accents about the place at least, up against a fairly sizable contingent from England, Wales and Scotland, as well as from a dozen other countries (small places like Germany and Russia). 167 shooters in total, split between rifle/pistol, men/women and senior/juniors.

Live results and webcams will be up here.

Daily results should go up here and photos here.

I don't know if we'll have internet access from there or if we'll have time to use it, but if we do, I'll try to post an update or two while we're there. Wish us luck...

go faster

Best of luck to ye all

dev110

Best of luck, I want to see some silverware

Thirdfox

Good luck!

LB6

Best of luck to the Irish. Bring home the bling!

Sparks

All arrived safe last night in the camp in -2C (brr) and today is equipment control and training and the temp is down to -6C (fuppingkheckthatscold). You couldn't pack enough jumpers...

dCorbus

Best of Luck to Everyone!

It wasn't me!

Kicking off tomorrow with Caroline O'Brien in action in the air pistol event at 0700 Irish time. Peter Friend's shooting air pistol after that at 0845 Irish time, Aisling Miller's on shooting air rifle at 1245 and the three lads, Mark, Ray and Paul, are on at 1445. Might even spot someone on the webcams! Live results will be available on the Intershoot website and all going to plan the software will run smoothly and we can keep up to date. Best of luck to all, hope the training day went well and we'll see how they get on over the next three days.

Sparks

Training went well for all. Apparently we were on the webcams (I'm easy to spot, look for the fat bastard imitating Santa ) today...

Sparks

Caroline had an excellent shoot, set a new personal best!

Thirdfox

Ray Kane is currently shooting in the AR finals!

590 in the qualifying - wow

Sparks

Long day but a good day. Ray's 590 is a new Irish record for Men's Air Rifle, Caroline's score is a new Irish record in Women's Air Pistol, Aisling hit the MQS on her first international shoot, and Paul and I will have a better day tomorrow (Mind you, he hit the MQS, that's not shabby).

Early start for the rifle team tomorrow at 0845 Irish time; earlier start for Aisling over an hour earlier. Pistol to follow a bit later in the day.

Meanwhile, some photos from today:









And what you don't want to do to your trigger finger during a large match...

Thirdfox

What happened to Stine Andersen in the final? She's not registering any shots on the live results feed.

Sparks

Dunno what happened to her Thirdfox, but she's not there!

Sparks

ooooo, a tie!

It wasn't me!

Another final for Ray today, on 589, going in in seventh, tied with Denny Nikkelen. Yesterday's was good, and he finished very strongly today, so let's hope for a good final now!

Sparks

Sitting up in the stands watching Ray's final now. 30 seconds left in practise...

Sparks

1st shot of the finals! 10.2 for Ray!

Cass

Everytime i click on the links above i keep getting "Results, etc will be available during live match".

Sparks

Second shot.... ach, 9.2

Sparks

Ezridax wrote: »

Everytime i click on the links above i keep getting "Results, etc will be available during live match".

Yeah, they're having fun with the internet link here apparently

Sparks

Third shot... argh! 9.9

Internet dropping out here now

Sparks

Fourth shot... /wince 8.8 in the other direction. Fup.

Sparks

C'mon Ray, dial it in...

Sparks

Fifth shot... Oh you beauty! 10.5

Sparks

MiGiD is down there taking photos so we should have some decent photos later on...

dev110

Liking the live feed Sparks :cool:
The live results are very patchy

Sparks

Sixth shot... 10.0! Phew!

Sparks

Seventh shot... squeak! 10.0!

Sparks

Eighth shot... c'mon.... OH YOU LOVELY MAN! 10.7!

Sparks

Ninth shot... ooooo10.0!

Sparks

And last shot.... oh the suspense, c'mon you bugger.... That'll do 10.2

Sparks

And there's a tie for third place, but I think Ray held his seventh place (can't quite see the screen well from here)

Sparks

Ach, no, looks like Ray slipped to eighth
Still. That's an Irishman in the Finals, and against the competition here, that's no small feat!
Well done Ray!

Sparks

Right, and now the team's going to pack kit away and head back to the camp for much-needed food and rest. Peter Friend and Caroline O'Brien are up to shoot this afternoon though, and Caroline found a major issue with her pistol and fixed it last night (dodgy recoil compensator) so we're hoping she'll add a point or two today - one to watch!

Sparks

Ha! A fun update (been away from working wifi for a bit) - the Irish team won the bronze medal in the teams today

Sparks

Peter Friend's doing well in the Mens Air Pistol at the moment (95 96 93 92), three points behind Mick Gault at the 40-shot mark. Given that Mick Gault has won more commonwealth medals than any athlete in any sport ever, that's no mean feat!


(Pete's the guy standing on his own in the middle of the photo in the white t-shirt)

It wasn't me!

Team medal. Now that's nice! It's one thing to go out and get an individual medal, but getting a team one shows a lot more for the health of the sport here. Well done to all.

Sparks

Only 20 points behind the English team at that. Not to belittle them ('cos they're actually nice folks), but they've a lot of support we don't have here. And 20 points is something that Paul could nearly make up on his own, and between the three of us, it's not the hardest of pushes. In other words, we're well chuffed because it's a better result than you'd think when you put it in context.


And btw, just heard that the N.Ireland team put in a team bronze medal in men's air pistol too! Booya!

tac foley

Wondrous stuff, Sparks! Great success, well-deserved, too.

tac, proud to be partly-Irish

MiGiD

Men's/ Junior Men's final Day 2

Ray is second from the right

Sparks

And you're joining us on shot two of the mens air rifle finals, where Ray Kane is in 7th place and has just given us all a heart attack on shot one by taking the shot with about four seconds to spare (9.0) and has just shot a 9.9 for the second shot.

Sparks

We need to bring a loud noisemaker for these finals (you applaud for 10s... but we need something a bit more special )
Third shot coming up...

Sparks

...Oooo ye boyo! 10.3!

Sparks

And Ray's now caught up with 6th place with that shot I think...

Sparks

Fourth shot... Boo-ya! 10.7! Loud cheering commencing!

Sparks

Fifth shot coming up... d'oh. 9.3 Cheering temporarily suspended

Sparks

Sixth shot... *sigh* 9.6

Sparks

Seventh shot... GWAN YA GOOD THING! 10.3!

Sparks

Eight shot... WHOOOO! 10.5!

Sparks

Team manager now splitting his sides trying not to laugh at the reactions of the others to the cheering from the stands (apparently the GB squad isn't used to being outdone on volume when it comes to cheering )