Last updated: 28th August 2010
Welsh Airgun Association News
Junior Nordics 
(Added 28th August 2010)
A number of Welsh athletes represented Great Britain at the Nordic Shooting Region Junior Championships, which were held in Vierumäki in Finland.
Danielle Jones placed 1st in the 10m Air Pistol Women event and was also part of the three-person team that took the Gold in the same event.
Team Gold in the 10m Air Pistol Women event was taken by Danielle, Vicki Mullin (England) and Coral Kennerley (both also made the Final, with Vicki in 3rd place
and Coral moving up a place to 7th).
Craig Auden made the Final in the 10m Air Pistol Men and Michael Bamsey also made the Final of the 10m Air Rifle Men after a shoot-off.
Centre of Excellence (Added 28th August 2010)
The Carmarthen-based Three Counties Air Target Club has been designated a Centre of Excellence by the Welsh Target Shooting Federation.
World Championships - Munich (Added 28th August 2010)
Coral Kennerley and Danielle Jones represented Great Britain in the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior event at the World Championships, held in Munich, Germany.
Coral placed equal 12th and the three-person team of Coral, Danielle and Vicki Mullin (England) set a new GB Record Score.
2010 Commonwealth Games (Added 29th July 2010)
The following air rifle, air pistol and cartridge pistol team has been selected by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales to compete in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, from 3rd to 14th
October 2010:-
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Jenny Corish |
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10m Air Rifle Women |
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Siān Corish |
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10m Air Rifle Women |
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Rachel Gravell |
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10m Air Pistol Women |
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Nicola Wilson |
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10m Air Pistol Women |
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Al Green |
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25m Pistol events |
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Steve Pengelly |
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25m Pistol events |
The Association's congratulations go to everyone selected to represent Wales.
The full team list is listed on the Welsh Target Shooting Federation web site.
The official Commonwealth Games Council for Wales media release:- Commonwealth Games Team Wales announcement - Shooting team.
Links page updated (Added 5th July 2010)
Modern Pentathlon link is now Pentathlon GB.
2010 Welsh Open Airgun Championship (Added 1st July 2010)
The 2010 Welsh Airgun Open Championship will be held over the weekend of 29 - 31 October 2010 in the Main Hall at the Sport Wales National Centre,
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
The entry form and booklet are now available from the Welsh Open 2010 web page.
Printed copies of the booklet and entry form will be appearing around the country sometime in July 2010.
The deadline for entries is 16th October 2010. Entries received after this date may not be processed, however, there will not be a late-entry charge so if
someone does decide to try for an entry after 16th October 2010 they should telephone first as people have been known to cancel their entry shortly before the
start of the competition.
A web page showing a summary of each Squad is available (link on the Welsh Open 2010 web page) to
help people choose their Squads.
Ranking spreadsheets updated (Added 21st June 2010)
Links page updated (Added 21st June 2010)
Cambridge .177 added.
NI CG Council added.
MQS page replaced with Ranking spreadsheets (Added 14th June 2010)
Limited company (Added 14th June 2010)
The Association became a limited company on 1st June 2010.
Calendar page updated (Added 24th May 2010)
4 Nations Cup 2010 (Added 23rd April 2010)
The 2010 4 Nations Cup, due to be held in Cardiff, has been cancelled.
Luxembourg will host the 2011 4 Nations Cup.
Scottish Air Pistol Championships 2010 (Added 29th March 2010)
The Scottish Open Pistol Championship was hosted at Tulliallan again for 2010 and a hardy team of four travelled up in the rain via all the roadworks to Kincardine.
Craig Auden took 2nd place in the Junior Mens Championship Final. Ian Harris made the Senior mens Final.
John Pitt placed 3rd in the Veterans competition.
Ian Harris took 2nd place in the Blue competition X Class, 2nd in the X Class aggregate, 2nd in the 5 Target Falling plate match and
2nd place in the half-course Sport Pistol match.
Full results are available from the Scottish Pistol Association Championship results web page.
Scottish Air Rifle Championships 2010 (Added 29th March 2010)
Tulliallan was the location for 2010 Scottish Air Rifle Championships.
Siān Corish almost made a clean sweep of the the Championships, with 1st place in Competition 1, Competition 2 and Competition 3, and being knocked into 2nd place
by 0.8 points on the 10th shot in the Olympic Final.
Record Scores page updated (Added 21st March 2010)
WTSF 2010 Commonwealth Games Nomination Policy document amended (Added 21st March 2010)
Issue 3 of the WTSF 2010 Commonwealth Games Nomination Policy document has been published and is available on the WTSF Documents page.
Dates for the end and after the period for setting MCS scores have been amended.
European 10m Championship, Meråker, Norway (Added 21st March 2010)
Craig Auden (Air Pistol) and Michael Bamsey (Air Rifle) represented GB in the Youth Olympic Games qualifying matches.
Danielle Jones and Coral Kennerley represented GB in the 10m Junior Womens Air Pistol event.
Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship 2010 - New Delhi, India (Added 1st March 2010)
Al Green and Steve Pengelly took 2nd place in the Centre Fire Pistol Pairs with a new Welsh Record score of 1131x1200, and followed with 3rd place in the
Standard Pistol Pairs with another Welsh Record score of 1096x1200.
Dani Jones and Nicola Wilson competed in the 10m Air Pistol Womens event and took 3rd place in the Pairs event.
Jenny Corish, Siān Corish and Rhian Floyd competed in the 10m Air Rifle Womens events.
The Association's congratulations go to the Welsh medal winners and competitors who completed in the smallbore and clay target events.
Full results are available from the Sius Ascor results web site.
British Airgun Championship 2010 (Added 1st March 2010)
Teams
The team of Rachel Gravell, Karen Morris and Coral Kennerley took the Women's Home Countries Pistol Championship.
Rifle
Junior Men's Air Rifle Championship
Michael Bamsey went into the Final in 4th place and moved up to 3rd place.
Pistol
Junior Women's Air Pistol Championship
Coral Kennerley entered the Final in 4th place and fought her way to 2nd before ending the Final in 4th place.
Junior Men's Air Pistol Championship
Craig Auden entered the Final in 3rd place and retained 3rd place at the end of the Final. Michael Bamsey also gained a Final place in the pistol Final in addition to
his air rifle Championship podium place.
Women's Air Pistol Championship
Rachel Gravell and Kathy Gaunt made the Olympic Final.
Intershoot 2010 (Added 1st March 2010)
Wales sent a small team of 10 (compared to a team of 31 in 2009) to Intershoot. Five people travelled from Birmingham, four from Cardiff, with one person making thier
own travel arrangements.
Links page updated (Added 2nd January 2010)
ISSF link amended.
Malta Autumn Grand Prix 2009 (Added 6th December 2009)
Malta was the destination of a Team to compete in the Malta Autumn Grand Prix at the end of November.
The event proved very successful for Wales, with six 1st place results out of eight matches along with a number of new Welsh Record Scores set:-
- 10m Air Pistol Women (60 shots) & Junior Women (60 shots) - Danielle Jones - 558x600
- 10m Air Pistol Women (40 shots) - Nicola Wilson - 376x400
- 10m Air Pistol Women Pairs - Nicola Wilson and Rachel Gravell - 727x800
Welsh Airgun Open 2010 (Added 15th November 2009)
The 2010 Welsh Airgun Open will held over the weekend of 29 - 31 October 2010 in the Main Hall at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff.
Team Nomination Policy document amended (Added 15th November 2009)
Issue 11 of the WAA Team Nomination Policy document has been published and is available on the Documents page.
Welsh Airgun Open 2009 (Added 10th October 2009)
The 2009 Welsh Airgun Open was held over the weekend of 3 - 4 October in the Main Hall at the Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff.
The 2009 Open Pistol Champion is Stewart Nangle and the 2009 Open Rifle Champion is Chris Hector. In the Junior category, the 2009 Open Pistol Champion is Craig Auden and the 2009 Open Rifle Champion is James Huckle.
This year saw the use again of Megalink electronic targets for the Olympic Finals. Finals prizes for the four Finals were awarded to the competitors by Harry Preston, Steyr GB.
In the Welsh Closed Championships, Alan Green took the Air Pistol title and Rhian Floyd the Air Rifle title.
Coral Kennerley equalled the Welsh Record Score of 375x400 for the 10m Air Pistol Women event and the 10m Air Pistol Junior Women event.
Full results may be downloaded from the Competition Results page, including graphical score cards from the Olympic Finals.
With three weeks to go, the 2009 Open was fully booked and an extra squad was organised for Friday afternoon with a limited number of firing points to
accommodate the people who had just made it on to the waiting list - shooting took place whilst the rest of the firing points were being put up in the Main Hall. There is no guarantee that a Friday afternoon squad will take place in future years.
It is likely that a deadline date for entries for the 2010 Open will be set.
CSF(ED) 2009 Isle of Man (Added 30th September 2009)
The team travelled from by ferry and air to Douglas, Isle of Man, for the 2009 Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championships. Al Green travelled from Switzerland and most likely had to incur excess baggage costs for the medal haul he took back.
Rhian Floyd and Siān Corish set a New Welsh Record Score of 779x800 in the 10m Air Rifle Womens Pairs event, eclipsing the previous score of 768x800 set by Rhian Floyd and Julie Daltrey at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.
Airgun events took place at the National Sports Centre in Douglas, with the cartridge pistol being shot on the Slieau Host range at Windy Corner, the smallbore rifle at the Sinclair Range and the clay events at Blue Point. The Full-bore rifle events were shot at Bisley.
Event
10m Air Rifle Women Gold Rhian Floyd
10m Air Rifle Women Silver Siān Corish
10m Air Pistol Women Gold Rachel Gravell
10m Air Pistol Women Bronze Nicola Wilson
25m Centrefire Pistol Gold Al Green
25m Standard Pistol Bronze Al Green
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold Steve Pengelly
10m Air Rifle Women Pairs Gold Rhian Floyd and Siān Corish
10m Air Pistol Men Pairs Silver Craig Auden and Ian Harris
25m Standard Pistol Pairs Gold Steve Pengelly and Al Green
25m Rapid Fire Pairs Gold Steve pengelly and Al Green
Other medals were won by Wales in the smallbore rifle, clay and full-bore rifle events.
New Womens 10m 60-shot Air Pistol record score (Added 16th September 2009)
Nicola Wilson, shooting at the September BPC meeting at Bisley, posted a new Welsh Record Score for Womens 10m 60-shot Air Pistol event of 557x600, and (at the the NSRA Pistol meeting) has attained a Commonwealth Games MCS.
5 Nations Cup 2009 - France (Added 24th June 2009)
The 2009 5 Nations Cup competition was held this year over the weekend of 19 - 21 June at Eurostand in the Lorraine region of France, and this year was hosted by France, who also won the 2009 Cup.
The coach travelled through the Channel tunnel, through France, Belgium and Luxembourg to the hotel in the south of Luxembourg City. It was, as usual, a long trip, taking some 13 hours.There were lots of roadworks on the roads, but, luckily, there were no major holdups.
Some good shooting in the airgun and cartridge pistol events resulted in one Gold, one Silver and three Bronze medals.
Dani Jones won the 10m Air Pistol Junior Womens competition with a new PB and a new Welsh record Score (375x400) in both the Junior and Senior Womens 10m Air Pistol events.
Chatch (Charlotte) Furneaux and Hanni (Hannah) Jones were presented with their Colours by John Dallimore, Team Manager, for their first representation for Wales in a WTSF competition.
Although not listed below, there were medals won in the smallbore rifle events. There was some confusion over the clay target competitions, but trap shooting did take place on the Sunday morning - one Bronze medal won.
Event
10m Air Pistol Junior Women Gold Dani Jones
10m Air Pistol Women Silver Nicola Wilson
10m 5-Target Women Bronze Karen Morris
25m Standard Pistol Bronze Al Green
25m Centre Fire Pistol Bronze Al Green
The 2010 4 Nations Cup will be hosted by Wales in Cardiff, France (Lorraine) having decided to pull out of the Cup for the foreseable future.
New 25m Pistol record score (Added 12th June 2009)
Nicola Wilson, shooting in the April 2009 GB Trials in Switzerland, posted a new Welsh Record Score for 25m Pistol of 555x600.
AGM Notice and Grant Aid reminder (Added 18th April 2009)
Notices for the 2009 AGM have been sent out to members who have paid their subscription for 2009. Only Members who have paid their 2009 subscription may vote at the AGM.
Members are reminded that in order to receive Grant Aid, attend Squad training sessions or represent Wales at matches, they must have paid their current year's subscription.
Updated: 28th August 2010
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