Irish team for the GB Junior International

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From TargetShootingIreland.com:

Team for the GB Junior International
Friday, 29 July 2005

The Irish team for the GB Junior International has been announced.

Back in April the NTSA invited all its junior (under 21) members to take part in a developmental project to put together a team for the GB Junior International which is to be held from 8th to 11th August in Bisley.

The plan was for any who were interested to make themselves available on 1st May to sign up to the plan.

The plan consisted of a series of coaching days over the three months with our International coach Barry Dagger and coaches, Raymond Kane, Geoff Cooney and Matt Fox, who have all attended the ISSF Coaching academy, as part of the NTSA's development strategy.

It was agreed that at the end of the three months training plan those who had shown the most commitment and/or the greatest improvement would travel to the GB Junior International.

The following have been selected to represent Ireland in;

Junior Women's Air rifle;
Cliodhna Russell
Elizabeth O'Hagan
Susan Cunningham

Junior Men Air rifle;
Damian Fagan
Shane Flynn
Mark Lynn
Jim O'Hagan

Junior Men Air rifle & Prone rifle;
Iain Nash

They will be accompanied by;
Leslie Fagan (Team Manager),
Geoff Cooney (Team Coach) and
Marie Fagan (Liaison officer)

The NTSA would like to wish all travelling a pleasant and successful trip

Patrick O'Brien.
Chairman NTSA.

So good luck to our juniors, including one of our own boards.ie regulars, bring back some GB gold guys!

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Details from the GB Junior site:

The 13th Junior International Match organised by the Great Britain Junior Rifle and Pistol Squad takes place on 8th to 11th August at the Lord Roberts Centre, Bisley Camp. The 2005 competition is expected to be the largest ever, with an estimated 125 shooters from six countries taking part.

The origin of the Match goes back to the first visit to Bisley in 1993 by a team from Oldenburg in Germany. This was a return match, following the visit by the British Juniors to Oldenburg in 1992 when the British team went on tour, combining a match against Oldenburg with subsequent participation at the Deutscher Schützenbund's Junior International at Brunswick. Oldenburg has sent a team to every one of the International Matches held at Bisley: this year they are coming with 15 shooters.

The largest overseas representation will be the 50 shooters from South Africa, which will include groups representative of or sponsored by the South African Target Rifle Association, the South African Air Rifle Association, the United Schools Sport Association South Africa and Mpumalanga Province.

The United States of America will be represented by six shooters from Spokane, Washington, most of whom were also at the 2004 Match. The team's visit is organised by the National Guard Marksmanship Training Unit, and this will be the fourth year that a team has been brought over by the NGMTU.

The other two countries, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark, have been participants for even longer. The National Target Shooting Association of Ireland will have a group of about nine shooters, the largest team that they have brought so far.

The Danish National Shooting Association team is always made up of six shooters. They are the leading shooters at the Danes' Big Shooting Day Competition, and their prize includes a trip to Great Britain to take part in the Junior International and a number of competitions in the NSRA's Bisley Rifle Meeting, which is held the following week.

The British shooters are those who are members of the Great Britain National Squad and the Junior Development Squad.

Following the training day on Tuesday 9th August, the matches are spread over three days, with rifle and pistol events taking place each day.

The timetable is here.

And here's the blurb on our team:

During the first few years of the Junior International Matches at Bisley some shooting was also arranged for the adults of the visiting teams. In 1994 and 1995 an invitation to take part was also issued to some senior shooters from the Republic of Ireland, who were being coached at the time by Barry Dagger.

The contact with the National Target Shooting Association of Ireland has been maintained and in 2001 the NTSA was able to send its first junior shooter to take part in the International at Bisley.

A number of Irish shooters and officials have taken part in subsequent matches and have occasionally also been involved in the other two major annual events organised by the Junior Squad - the Easter Training Camp at Bisley and the Spring tour of Germany, including the matches at Oldenburg and Suhl.

Three of the team, Susan Cunningham, Damian Fagan and Mark Lynn, have already been to Bisley this year, shooting in the British Open Airgun Championships in February.

Manager Leslie Fagan
Coach Anthony Cooney
Chaperone Marie Fagan

Shooters 6001 Susan Cunningham 6005 Iain Nash
6002 Damian Fagan 6006 Elizabeth O'Hagan
6003 Shane Flynn 6007 Jim O'Hagan
6004 Mark Lynn 6008 Cliodhna Russell

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First day's shooting results are up on the web and we've done rather well, though there is also dissappointment; Damien Fagan went into the finals a point ahead in first place, but had a bad finals and lost out on the medals by 2.1 points He's going to be gutted by that. However, he now qualifies (having shot 577, 7 points over the Minimum Qualifying Score for the Olympics) for a carding grant, which means that he'll be able to attend more competitions, get more help with physiological and psychological training from the National Coaching and Training Center, as well as from the local Gym in Wilkinstown (who kindly extend free use of their facilities to carded athletes) and that should give him an excellent chance to put in a better performance next time, in the British Open Championships in Feburary next year.

Also, Susan Cunningham's match is not until tomorrow, and we're expecting that she will do equally well, if not better.

And the other members of the squad shot at about the levels we were hoping for, and will now have been exposed to what international competition is like, and hopefully will be hooked on it

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley UK
RESULTS SUMMARY
10 m Air Rifle Junior Men
Date: 09/08/05

Rk FP No NAME NAT 10 20 30 40 50 60 TOTAL

1 17 2007 MELZOW, Lucas OLD 96 97 97 97 95 94 576

(Final 9.9 10.8 9.5 10.4 10.2 8.6 10.4 10.5 9.7 9.7) 99.7

675.7
2 21 1020 LACEY, Chris GBR 94 96 98 95 96 96 575

(Final 9.7 10.2 8.6 9.4 10.7 10.1 9.0 10.0 10.8 10.6) 99.1

674.1
3 26 2008 OTTEN, Felix OLD 94 96 94 100 97 95 576

(Final 10.6 8.1 9.1 9.4 9.4 10.3 10.7 10.2 10.4 9.1) 97.3

673.3
4 9 6002 FAGAN, Damian IRL 97 98 95 97 94 96 577

(Final 9.9 8.4 8.8 10.5 10.1 10.2 8.2 8.4 10.3 9.4) 94.2

671.2
5 10 3035 SNYMAN, Erhardt RSA 96 97 98 94 91 95 571

(Final 9.5 10.4 10.2 9.3 10.7 10.0 9.3 9.2 10.9 10.4) 99.9

670.9
6 15 5006 MCNETT, Eric USA 96 96 99 97 92 93 573

(Final 9.0 10.0 9.7 7.9 10.4 8.9 10.1 10.4 10.4 10.0) 96.8

669.8
7 18 1001 HOBBS, Mark GBR 96 95 96 97 96 89 569

(Final 9.7 10.1 10.2 8.8 9.6 8.6 9.7 9.5 10.8 10.4) 97.4

Tie Shoot 10.1 666.4
8 17 3004 BIDDULPH, Etienne RSA 92 93 95 97 98 92 567

(Final 10.0 10.0 10.3 9.3 9.6 10.3 9.9 9.1 10.3 10.6) 99.4

Tie Shoot 9.4 666.4

9 25 3003 BEUKES, Hugo RSA 96 94 94 96 97 90 567
14 1036 LATHAM, Craig GBR 92 95 96 96 96 92 567
11 5 3024 LOUW, Albert RSA 96 92 94 95 93 96 566
12 15 2001 ADLER, Martin OLD 90 93 95 96 95 96 565
13 27 1017 PARR, Ken GBR 93 96 93 93 93 95 563
24 1029 SMITH, Jonathon GBR 92 96 95 91 93 96 563
15 6 1026 SUTHERLAND, Nathan GBR 96 96 89 94 95 92 562
16 16 3017 DU PREEZ, Ruan RSA 94 94 94 91 94 94 561
17 20 3029 PRINSLOO, Johannes RSA 97 93 90 94 92 93 559
18 20 3020 GROENEWALD, Bart RSA 91 89 95 91 97 95 558
19 10 1008 CLARKE-SMITH, Alex GBR 91 93 93 93 96 91 557
8 3028 OPPERMAN, André RSA 93 92 93 93 95 91 557
21 23 2015 VOS, Kevin OLD 95 88 91 95 92 93 554
22 2 1023 COVEY, Alex GBR 92 92 90 93 96 90 553
23 7 3034 SINDEN, Danie RSA 90 90 92 89 96 95 552
24 9 3018 FLEISCHMANN, Jürgen RSA 86 92 97 90 92 94 551
25 12 5004 JENKINS, John USA 91 91 94 90 95 89 550
14 3036 STEYN, Peter RSA 90 92 90 90 93 95 550
27 11 1005 WATERS, Stephen GBR 93 93 90 91 89 93 549
28 13 2004 DE VRIES, Henning OLD 92 93 94 90 93 86 548
29 11 3007 BREYTENBACH, Ben RSA 88 90 92 90 94 91 545
30 3 5005 MCBETH, Keith USA 92 91 96 89 92 84 544
31 13 6003 FLYNN, Shane IRL 91 91 91 91 89 90 543
32 22 1035 MALONEY, Paul GBR 88 92 88 86 88 93 535
33 8 2012 SCHRODER, Lukas OLD 86 88 84 93 93 88 532
34 4 1004 RANCE, Kyle GBR 91 88 85 83 89 91 527
35 16 3006 BREDENKAMP, Pieter RSA 88 92 92 85 89 78 524
36 6 6004 LYNN, Mark IRL 85 85 92 87 88 86 523
37 30 3021 HOPKINS, Evan RSA 78 91 89 84 87 90 519
29 1037 LEVINE, Edward GBR 84 81 88 88 91 87 519

7 6005 NASH, Iain IRL 90 88 86 88 85 82 519
40 28 3044 VAN VREDEN, Jan-Hendrik RSA 90 85 77 91 87 78 508
41 19 6007 O'HAGAN, Jim IRL 76 87 83 86 85 86 503
42 12 3031 PRETORIUS, Nando RSA 82 86 87 81 84 78 498
43 18 3045 VENTER, Jan RSA 81 84 88 82 80 82 497
44 19 3043 VAN NIEKERK J, Jannie RSA 76 78 80 86 72 74 466
45 3 3041 VAN NIEKERK H, Hansie RSA 80 82 73 74 80 75 464

The team did not fare so well in the teams category, but we weren't expecting to; our developmental male juniors aren't quite ready for a competitive trip just yet, though they show much promise. The ladies' team may well do better, however we're not fussed about it, as with the exceptions of Damien and Susan we weren't expecting top placings from the Juniors yet. (This won't hold for Bisley in Feburary, guys!).

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley England
RESULTS
10 m Air Rifle Junior Men
Team Competition
Date: 09/08/05

RANK NAT TEAMNAME (NAME) IND TOTAL

1 GBR GB1 1704
1020 LACEY, Chris 575
1036 LATHAM, Craig 567
1026 SUTHERLAND, Nathan 562

2 OLD OL1 1700
2008 OTTEN, Felix 576
2007 MELZOW, Lucas 576
2004 DE VRIES, Henning 548

3 RSA RS2 1694
3003 BEUKES, Hugo 567
3024 LOUW, Albert 566
3017 DU PREEZ, Ruan 561

4 GBR GB2 1689
1001 HOBBS, Mark 569
1017 PARR, Ken 563
1008 CLARKE-SMITH, Alex 557

5 RSA RS1 1678
3035 SNYMAN, Erhardt 571
3028 OPPERMAN, André 557
3036 STEYN, Peter 550

6 USA USA 1667
5006 MCNETT, Eric 573
5004 JENKINS, John 550
5005 MCBETH, Keith 544

7 RSA RS3 1662
3029 PRINSLOO, Johannes 559
3020 GROENEWALD, Bart 558
3007 BREYTENBACH, Ben 545

8 OLD OL2 1651
2001 ADLER, Martin 565
2015 VOS, Kevin 554
2012 SCHRODER, Lukas 532

9 GBR GB3 1647
1029 SMITH, Jonathon 563
1005 WATERS, Stephen 549
1035 MALONEY, Paul 535

10 IRL IRL 1643
6002 FAGAN, Damian 577
6003 FLYNN, Shane 543
6004 LYNN, Mark 523

11 RSA RS4 1627
3034 SINDEN, Danie 552
3018 FLEISCHMANN, Jürgen 551
3006 BREDENKAMP, Pieter 524

12 GBR GB4 1599
1023 COVEY, Alex 553
1004 RANCE, Kyle 527
1037 LEVINE, Edward 519

13 RSA RS5 1524
3021 HOPKINS, Evan 519
3044 VAN VREDEN, Jan-Hendrik 508
3045 VENTER, Jan 497

14 RSA RS6 1428
3031 PRETORIUS, Nando 498
3043 VAN NIEKERK J, Jannie 466
3041 VAN NIEKERK H, Hansie 464

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The team leaving Dublin Airport on Sunday.

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And most of the second day's shooting results are now up and we've done well again. Susan didn't finish quite as high as I thought she would, joint third going into the final on 380 (ex 400), which is five points over the Minimum Qualifying Standard and thus gets her a carding grant as well (that's two in one trip! ), but is still remarkable for a junior. Expect Big Things in the future from that young lady. The other lady juniors didn't quite shoot at their full potential, about three or four points low in each ten-shot series, but this was their first time abroad ever, and we sortof expected that (that's why this is a developmental trip, after all). Again, wait till next febuary and the competitive trip for the British Open!

One more match tomorrow, with one of our own regular posters here shooting, so keep watching...

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley UK
FINAL RESULTS
10 m Air Rifle Junior Women
Date: 10/08/05 Start Time: 11:00
Rk FP No NAME NOC 10 20 30 40 TOTAL

1 17 2013 SCHULTZE, Andrea OLD 96 98 96 95 385
(Final 10.5 10.1 10.3 10.5 10.6 10.0 9.9 10.0 10.2 10.3) 102.4
487.4

2 7 3011 CLOETE, Tessa RSA 97 97 93 98 385
(Final 10.0 10.0 10.3 9.5 10.1 10.3 10.1 10.6 9.8 9.5) 100.2
485.2

3 16 3019 GREYLING, Sonja RSA 95 95 96 98 384
(Final 10.0 9.7 10.8 9.4 9.3 10.6 10.5 10.1 10.4 10.1) 100.9
484.9

4 6 5002 FURRER, Lauren USA 92 97 94 97 380
(Final 9.3 10.4 10.1 10.5 10.3 10.6 10.6 9.8 9.8 9.5) 100.9
480.9

5 13 2011 SASSEN, Miriam OLD 96 95 95 96 382
(Final 10.2 9.9 8.9 10.0 9.6 9.8 10.3 9.8 10.5 9.9) 98.9
480.9

6 6 3037 SUTHERLAND, Harriet RSA 96 96 90 96 378
(Final 10.0 10.0 10.1 8.9 10.8 10.2 10.5 10.2 10.0 10.7) 101.4
479.4

7 19 6001 CUNNINGHAM, Susan IRL 95 92 98 95 380
(Final 8.8 10.0 9.9 10.5 10.4 10.7 9.4 9.6 9.2 10.3) 98.8
478.8

8 22 1007 CORISH, Jennifer GBR 95 93 96 94 378
(Final 9.7 9.2 10.3 9.4 10.3 10.1 10.5 8.6 9.2 9.9) 97.2
475.2

9 9 3005 BOTHA, Anita RSA 94 94 97 93 378
10 15 1009 COX, Sheree GBR 95 94 91 95 375
3 5001 FURRER, Amanda USA 93 91 92 99 375
12 1016 PIDGLEY, Rebekah GBR 94 90 95 96 375
13 14 1015 SAINT, Rebecca GBR 95 95 91 92 373
20 1022 SIME, Jariya GBR 95 94 93 91 373
15 16 1010 FLOWERS, Melanie GBR 95 93 93 90 371
24 5003 HOPKINS, Rena USA 96 91 92 92 371
7 2009 OTTEN, Fenna OLD 95 93 93 90 371
8 2010 QUALMANN, Christin OLD 93 94 91 93 371
19 8 3033 SCHOEMAN, Caren RSA 94 93 90 92 369
20 12 1031 STONES, Abigail GBR 95 90 89 94 368
21 14 3002 BEKKER, Bianca RSA 89 94 88 95 366
26 1025 PASCALL, Freya GBR 95 90 93 88 366
25 2014 SIEMER, Janina OLD 89 94 91 92 366
24 4 2002 BIERBRAUER, Rebecca OLD 89 93 91 92 365
25 10 6006 O'HAGAN, Elizabeth IRL 92 86 95 91 364
26 13 1030 HARRIS, Samantha GBR 89 94 93 87 363
18 3038 VAN DALEN, Marilize RSA 89 90 92 92 363
11 3048 VOSLOO, Magdaleen RSA 88 90 92 93 363
29 27 3040 VAN JAARSVELD, Lize RSA 95 88 86 90 359
17 3049 WEPPENAAR, Lisa-Mari RSA 90 90 88 91 359
31 19 1003 CALLINGHAM, Georgina GBR 95 92 85 86 358
32 9 6008 RUSSELL, Cliodhna IRL 88 89 88 92 357
33 5 1027 BOND, Sarah GBR 87 86 89 86 348
34 4 3012 COETZEE, Cindy RSA 84 87 90 83 344
35 23 3050 WEYERS, Liezel RSA 87 86 86 84 343
36 5 3015 DE BRUYN, Cornelia RSA 80 90 84 87 341
37 15 3039 VAN DER HAAR, Tarryn RSA 82 83 83 82 330
38 21 3016 DEETLEFS, Maryke RSA 77 77 86 83 323
11 3046 VILJOEN, Joanette RSA 78 80 78 87 323
40 10 3008 BRITS, Tharina RSA 77 69 84 88 318

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The Junior Women's Team results:

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley England
RESULTS
10 m Air Rifle Junior Women
Team Competition
Date: 10/08/05 Start Time: 11:00

1 OLD OL1
2013 SCHULTZE, Andrea 385
2011 SASSEN, Miriam 382
2009 OTTEN, Fenna 371
1138

2 RSA RS1
3011 CLOETE, Tessa 385
3019 GREYLING, Sonja 384
3002 BEKKER, Bianca 366
1135

3 USA USA
5002 FURRER, Lauren 380
5001 FURRER, Amanda 375
5003 HOPKINS, Rena 371
1126

4 GBR GB1
1007 CORISH, Jennifer 378
1016 PIDGLEY, Rebekah 375
1010 FLOWERS, Melanie 371
1124

5 GBR GB2
1009 COX, Sheree 375
1015 SAINT, Rebecca 373
1022 SIME, Jariya 373
1121

6 OLD OL2
2010 QUALMANN, Christin 371
2014 SIEMER, Janina 366
2002 BIERBRAUER, Rebecca 365
1102

7 IRL IRL
6001 CUNNINGHAM, Susan 380
6006 O'HAGAN, Elizabeth 364
6008 RUSSELL, Cliodhna 357
1101

8 RSA RS2
3005 BOTHA, Anita 378
3038 VAN DALEN, Marilize 363
3040 VAN JAARSVELD, Lize 359
1100

9 GBR GB3
1031 STONES, Abigail 368
1025 PASCALL, Freya 366
1030 HARRIS, Samantha 363
1097

10 RSA RS3
3048 VOSLOO, Magdaleen 363
3049 WEPPENAAR, Lisa-Mari 359
3050 WEYERS, Liezel 343
1065

11 RSA RS4
3033 SCHOEMAN, Caren 369
3016 DEETLEFS, Maryke 323
3046 VILJOEN, Joanette 323
1015[/B]

12 RSA RS5
3012 COETZEE, Cindy 344
3015 DE BRUYN, Cornelia 341
3008 BRITS, Tharina 318
1003

Sparks

And the final results are in. There were three matches of interest today, the Air Rifle Grand Prix matches for the Junior Men and Junior Women, and the Prone Smallbore match for the Junior Men.

The Air Rifle Grand Prix matches saw our juniors doing quite well; Susan Cunningham improved on her PB of 380 from yesterday to put in a 382, but was pipped for the bronze medal by one point However, that's two MQS scores in two consecutive days, which is an amazing feat for a junior who's only been shooting for one year! Elizabeth O'Hagan dropped three points from her PB yesterday of 364 to 361; an exceptional performance on her first trip to Bisley, especially given the 30-degree temperatures on the range, which everyone's been subjected to! And Cliodhna Russel's 347 is ten points down on yesterday's 357, but it's a good thing to learn how much these matches take it out of you!

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley UK
RESULTS
10 m Air Rifle Junior Women GRAND PRIX
Individual Competition
Date: 11/08/05 Start Time: 11:00

Rk FP No NAME NOC 10 20 30 40 TOTAL
1 32 3019 GREYLING, Sonja RSA 95 99 97 99 390
2 22 3011 CLOETE, Tessa RSA 97 98 95 94 384
3 17 1010 FLOWERS, Melanie GBR 98 93 96 96 383
4 21 6001 CUNNINGHAM, Susan IRL 93 97 96 96 382
5 31 5001 FURRER, Amanda USA 96 93 95 96 380
6 14 1016 PIDGLEY, Rebekah GBR 95 96 96 92 379
7 18 5002 FURRER, Lauren USA 93 96 96 93 378
8 25 3005 BOTHA, Anita RSA 88 96 96 97 377
9 8 5003 HOPKINS, Rena USA 96 97 88 93 374
10 10 2002 BIERBRAUER, Rebecca OLD 93 93 95 91 372
11 16 3048 VOSLOO, Magdaleen RSA 89 95 95 92 371
12 19 1025 PASCALL, Freya GBR 90 93 94 93 370
28 3033 SCHOEMAN, Caren RSA 96 90 94 90 370
5 1022 SIME, Jariya GBR 90 95 96 89 370
15 6 3002 BEKKER, Bianca RSA 91 93 91 93 368
16 27 1009 COX, Sheree GBR 95 93 91 87 366
13 3038 VAN DALEN, Marilize RSA 90 89 91 96 366
18 3 2010 QUALMANN, Christin OLD 94 91 91 89 365
19 12 1015 SAINT, Rebecca GBR 90 93 89 91 363
33 2014 SIEMER, Janina OLD 91 90 90 92 363
21 29 6006 O'HAGAN, Elizabeth IRL 91 89 92 89 361
22 20 3049 WEPPENAAR, Lisa-Mari RSA 87 88 89 88 352
23 30 3046 VILJOEN, Joanette RSA 93 87 87 84 351
24 24 1003 CALLINGHAM, Georgina GBR 93 78 91 86 348
25 15 6008 RUSSELL, Cliodhna IRL 85 88 86 88 347
26 4 3050 WEYERS, Liezel RSA 87 85 83 83 338
27 26 3039 VAN DER HAAR, Tarryn RSA 75 82 86 83 326
28 11 3015 DE BRUYN, Cornelia RSA 78 78 85 83 324
29 9 3012 COETZEE, Cindy RSA 78 77 81 87 323
30 7 3016 DEETLEFS, Maryke RSA 79 80 73 76 308
31 23 3008 BRITS, Tharina RSA 80 73 79 70 302

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The Junior Men's air rifle Grand Prix match also saw an MQS score from Damien Fagan on 570, but finishing further down the field today than yesterday in sixth place; still good enough to make the finals and it definitely copper-fastens the carding grants, but not what he's capable of (Damien's got a 580 in him at the moment, and that's only after a year of competitive training). But he's learnt a great deal from this trip, so again, Expect Big Things in the future from this man!

Shane Flynn managed to not just maintain his score, but increase it by one from 543 to 544, and not to be outdone, Marc Lynn improved from a 523 to a 536! And yes, Jim O'Hagan did slip a bit, but at his first international match ever and only six months into competitive shooting at a level that used to take several years to get to!

One thing's for sure; those medals in the British Open are definitely in trouble

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley UK
RESULTS
10 m Air Rifle Junior Men GRAND PRIX
Individual Competition
Date: 11/08/05 Start Time: 8:45

Rk FP No NAME NOC 10 20 30 40 50 60 TOTAL
1 10 1020 LACEY, Chris GBR 98 97 96 96 98 100 585
2 7 3024 LOUW, Albert RSA 98 96 95 93 97 99 578
3 8 1036 LATHAM, Craig GBR 99 95 97 93 98 93 575

4 6 3003 BEUKES, Hugo RSA 96 96 93 99 94 96 574
5 20 5006 MCNETT, Eric USA 95 96 97 98 93 95 574
6 13 6002 FAGAN, Damian IRL 96 92 94 96 95 97 570
7 29 1001 HOBBS, Mark GBR 94 95 95 92 98 96 570
8 12 3017 DU PREEZ, Ruan RSA 96 94 94 96 95 95 570
9 11 3028 OPPERMAN, André RSA 96 94 94 95 90 95 564
10 14 3034 SINDEN, Danie RSA 94 95 92 92 94 94 561
11 26 1029 SMITH, Jonathon GBR 96 92 94 91 91 96 560
12 5 1023 COVEY, Alex GBR 90 93 93 96 95 92 559
18 5005 MCBETH, Keith USA 93 93 92 94 93 94 559
14 21 3004 BIDDULPH, Etienne RSA 92 92 94 94 92 93 557
15 17 3036 STEYN, Peter RSA 95 90 94 95 89 92 555
16 22 1035 MALONEY, Paul GBR 95 91 87 93 94 92 552
17 32 3018 FLEISCHMANN, Jürgen RSA 90 87 96 96 89 93 551
18 19 3020 GROENEWALD, Bart RSA 95 88 90 94 91 91 549
24 1005 WATERS, Stephen GBR 92 94 93 87 93 90 549
20 25 3007 BREYTENBACH, Ben RSA 91 91 92 96 91 85 546
21 31 6003 FLYNN, Shane IRL 90 90 88 92 93 91 544
22 3 5004 JENKINS, John USA 91 94 92 85 91 89 542
23 9 6004 LYNN, Mark IRL 90 92 87 90 86 91 536
24 4 3029 PRINSLOO, Johannes RSA 90 88 82 92 90 92 534
25 27 3006 BREDENKAMP, Pieter RSA 88 87 91 93 85 86 530
26 28 3045 VENTER, Jan RSA 89 87 86 87 89 88 526
27 33 3044 VAN VREDEN, Jan-Hendrik RSA 86 83 77 84 85 82 497
28 15 6007 O'HAGAN, Jim IRL 87 83 85 82 78 81 496
29 16 3031 PRETORIUS, Nando RSA 80 79 81 83 86 76 485
30 3041 VAN NIEKERK H, Hansie RSA 82 78 86 86 73 80 485
31 23 3043 VAN NIEKERK J, Jannie RSA 80 78 84 83 85 74 484

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And in the Men's Prone Smallbore match, Iain Nash did quite well, posting a 562 in what is his third ever smallbore match at 50m, and only four months or so after he started shooting smallbore competitively! Not quite at MQS level yet, but give him a year and some experience on a 50m range, and watch what happens!

13th Junior International Match
2005 Bisley UK
FINAL RESULT
50 m Rifle Prone - Junior Men
Date: 11/08/05 Start Time: 09:00

Rk FP No NAME NOC 10 20 30 40 50 60 TOTAL
1 65 3035 SNYMAN, Erhardt RSA 98 99 98 98 98 100 591
(Final 9.4 9.9 9.8 10.0 10.5 10.4 10.1 9.8 9.9 9.7) 99.5
690.5
2 58 2007 MELZOW, Lucas OLD 96 99 98 97 98 97 585
(Final 10.5 9.9 10.5 9.2 9.2 8.7 8.9 9.2 10.1 10.3) 96.5
681.5
3 70 3022 JANSE VAN RENSBURG, Nicol RSA 97 98 100 98 96 95 584
(Final 10.6 10.3 10.0 8.7 9.7 10.3 8.2 9.8 8.5 10.3) 96.4
680.4
4 60 1017 PARR, Ken GBR 100 100 96 95 96 94 581
(Final 10.4 9.8 9.2 10.1 10.3 9.6 9.5 10.3 10.6 9.2) 99.0
680.0
5 72 3025 LOUW, Jacques RSA 96 96 97 96 97 96 578
(Final 10.3 10.4 10.0 9.7 10.0 10.5 9.7 10.0 10.6 9.8) 101.0
679.0
6 55 3026 MOSTERT, Mark RSA 96 100 97 98 95 95 581
(Final 8.8 9.8 10.3 10.4 9.4 9.8 10.3 10.3 8.9 9.5) 97.5
678.5
7 62 3001 BARTLEMAN, Andries RSA 95 96 97 96 95 95 574
(Final 10.4 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 9.7 8.4 10.2 10.6 9.2) 99.5
673.5
8 75 2008 OTTEN, Felix OLD 97 97 96 97 94 94 575
(Final 10.7 10.4 10.3 9.1 9.8 9.5 8.9 9.3 10.5 8.6) 97.1
672.1

9 56 1026 SUTHERLAND, Nathan GBR 98 95 96 93 95 96 573
10 61 3021 HOPKINS, Evan RSA 97 95 96 97 93 94 572
11 51 1006 EVANS, Danny GBR 94 96 93 95 96 97 571
12 48 4006 LAURSEN, Jens DEN 96 97 93 95 91 97 569
13 50 2001 ADLER, Martin OLD 96 93 97 95 95 93 569
14 71 1028 PILL, Matthew GBR 90 92 94 98 97 97 568
15 64 1008 CLARKE-SMITH, Alex GBR 92 95 94 97 96 94 568
16 59 3032 REED, William RSA 96 93 95 95 92 96 567
17 57 3027 OLIVIER, Jacobus RSA 94 96 89 94 95 97 565
18 53 1037 LEVINE, Edward GBR 93 94 91 96 97 94 565
19 47 1041 ELLIOT, Christopher GBR 90 96 95 92 97 94 564
20 54 1021 LEWTHWAITE, Peter GBR 96 93 93 93 92 96 563
21 73 1034 BERMINGHAM, Simon GBR 95 94 92 97 91 94 563
22 69 6005 NASH, Iain IRL 94 95 94 92 90 97 562
23 46 4004 HENNINGSEN, Brian DEN 93 94 95 93 96 90 561
24 74 4005 HVALSOEE-ANDRESEN, Tor DEN 93 93 93 95 91 94 559
25 67 2004 DE VRIES, Henning OLD 92 92 91 96 93 93 557
26 49 3010 CILLIERS, Jacobus RSA 96 95 96 93 84 93 557
27 52 2012 SCHRODER, Lukas OLD 94 92 94 93 92 87 552
28 66 1004 RANCE, Kyle GBR 94 91 91 89 93 93 551
29 63 2015 VOS, Kevin OLD 93 93 89 91 92 88 546
30 68 1033 THOMSON, Matthew GBR DNS

All told then, this trip has to be counted as a wonderful success. Eight juniors trained for some months on a regular basis, and while it wasn't perfect when we started, we've learnt what not to do and what we have to do next time and what worked really well this time and so on; Four MQS scores shot by two shooters, and thus two carding grants qualified for; and a first place, two third places and more PBs than you can shake a stick at. As well as eight junior shooters now hooked on competitive shooting! A big well done is definitely needed and a thank-you to the hard work put in both during this project and before it by Geoff Cooney, Matt Fox, Leslie Fagan and Paul Cunningham of Wilkinstown who supported the shooters through thick and thin; and further thanks are due to those in the NTSA who worked hard on this project as well, like Ray Kane who did an excellent job on the physical coaching and who sorted out some pretty serious points on the logistical planning for the trip.

Now this is what shooting's all about, folks! (for me at least!)

Sparks

The team got back from Bisley this evening:





And following the spontaneous welcome home from the passers-by in the arrivals hall (literally, dozens of people standing round waiting for family or friends to get in off the plane saw the team walking out in uniform and being given flowers and they started applauding, which was downright lovely to watch ), there's time for a quick group hug before the team splits up to head off home to some well-deserved sleep!



Team Manager Leslie Fagan and Team Coach Geoff Cooney:

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Maybethey thought we had won something...

You'd think it was one of the girls with the pink laces in the group hug....but no.....